Good Morning!
Early this morning we emailed everyone with a reminder of their Study Island passwords. They are the same ones you used during the school year. Please check your email to see that it arrived. You will login with this information to complete Assignments 2 & 3 each week. You should also try out the login as everyone has been moved into a special summer class. When you login, you will be taken to a class page with assignments for Sample Week. We still have a few folks that have not confirmed their contact email so, a gentle reminder to check your junk email folders and spam filters to make sure our emails are getting through.
Only a few more days until we officially launch on July 1!
Mr. Sokoloski
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Setting Up Students Entering Grade 4 This Morning
Good morning!
There are several steps in getting things ready for Summer Skills. This morning I moved all students entering Grade 4 into the Summer Skills class in Study Island. Couple of more moves will take place today with our students entering Grade 5 (with the weather so nice, it may be until this evening!).
When the classes are all set up will will be sending emails out to the parent contact address that include your Study Island username and passwords.
So, this is just a heads up that if you are an entering Grade 4 and you remembered your Study Island username and password, if you login you now get the class page with the sample assignments.
Enjoy this beautiful day!
Mr. Sokoloski
There are several steps in getting things ready for Summer Skills. This morning I moved all students entering Grade 4 into the Summer Skills class in Study Island. Couple of more moves will take place today with our students entering Grade 5 (with the weather so nice, it may be until this evening!).
When the classes are all set up will will be sending emails out to the parent contact address that include your Study Island username and passwords.
So, this is just a heads up that if you are an entering Grade 4 and you remembered your Study Island username and password, if you login you now get the class page with the sample assignments.
Enjoy this beautiful day!
Mr. Sokoloski
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Its Soooooo Hot!
I wanted to let you know that while you lucky dogs get to spend your day finding cool thins to do, Mrs. Hovorka and I are still in school. When you folks leave we have a few days to really clean the computers labs and storage areas. We are very lucky to have a little bit of air conditioning to help us out. However, we are coming in very early in the morning and working to a little past noon to beat the heat. Did you do today at 6:30 AM? I'll bet you were still sleeping. We were cleaning the Goodwin Computer Lab. Stay cool!
Mr Sokoloski
Mr Sokoloski
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Happy Last Day of School?
Happy Last Day
What a great but hot start to summer! Hope everybody finds something cool to do through the end of the week. Thanks to everybody who confirmed their registration. If you have not confirmed your registration please check your email. That is all for now!
Mr. Sokoloski
What a great but hot start to summer! Hope everybody finds something cool to do through the end of the week. Thanks to everybody who confirmed their registration. If you have not confirmed your registration please check your email. That is all for now!
Mr. Sokoloski
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Breakin' 40!
Today we went over 40 students registered for Summer Skills Online! Keep those registrations coming! We have been pretty good at getting a confirmation email out as soon as we get a paper registration or an email that someone has signed up online. If you have not gotten an email from us check your junk email or spam folder to be sure our email is getting through. After tomorrow there we will not be getting paper registrations so the online form is the best way. There is a link in the right menu bar.Mr. Sokoloski
Monday, June 18, 2012
Down to the finish!
Hello everyone!
We are coming down to the wire in the school year and our registration period. Today I made a visit to Mrs. Deloreto's class at Vinton school. That was the last class to have a formal presentation about the program :(
So, if you are coming on board get your registration in - use the online form. We would like to confirm that every student registered has a working parent email so when we begin on July 1 we are all set.
Now that is the business part, let me tell you an exciting story. Today I had to to drive from Southeast School to Vinton School over Browns Road. As I got towards the bottom of Browns Road I saw a shape outside my car window to my left on the driver's side. It was a red tailed hawk gliding along going down the hill. Now the hawk was gliding a little faster than my car and in a couple of seconds it was out in front by about 10 car lengths. It then spread its wings and extended its talons and dropped onto the grass on the left side of the road. It kind of "bounced" into the grass with its talons outstretched and flew back up and away. I had witnessed a hawk hunting for food and attacking some small creature. I did not see if it had picked up anything as when it turned to fly away it had its wings turned so that could not see if it had anything in its grasp. But what an exciting moment. I had never seen a hawk attack so close up to see exactly how a hawk does it. It is great to live in a part of the world where every once in a while you get to see nature in all of it's glory.
Mr. Sokoloski
We are coming down to the wire in the school year and our registration period. Today I made a visit to Mrs. Deloreto's class at Vinton school. That was the last class to have a formal presentation about the program :(
So, if you are coming on board get your registration in - use the online form. We would like to confirm that every student registered has a working parent email so when we begin on July 1 we are all set.
Now that is the business part, let me tell you an exciting story. Today I had to to drive from Southeast School to Vinton School over Browns Road. As I got towards the bottom of Browns Road I saw a shape outside my car window to my left on the driver's side. It was a red tailed hawk gliding along going down the hill. Now the hawk was gliding a little faster than my car and in a couple of seconds it was out in front by about 10 car lengths. It then spread its wings and extended its talons and dropped onto the grass on the left side of the road. It kind of "bounced" into the grass with its talons outstretched and flew back up and away. I had witnessed a hawk hunting for food and attacking some small creature. I did not see if it had picked up anything as when it turned to fly away it had its wings turned so that could not see if it had anything in its grasp. But what an exciting moment. I had never seen a hawk attack so close up to see exactly how a hawk does it. It is great to live in a part of the world where every once in a while you get to see nature in all of it's glory.
Mr. Sokoloski
Friday, June 15, 2012
Friday Reminders
Good Morning! What a busy time we have going in our schools! Field Days, Moving On Ceremonies, Field Trips! And what great weather!
In the middle of all this excitement the news from Summer Skills Online is that we have sent out registration confirmations to our second batch of recipients today. If you registered this week your parents should be getting an email. We need parents to reply to this email to confirm we have a working contact email for the summer.
If you have replied, thank you! If you have not yet please do as soon as you can. If you did not get an email, please check your junk email folders and spam filters to be sure Summer Skills emails are not being blocked. If you still did not receive an email please contact the coordinator's.
Thanks,
Mr. Sokoloski
In the middle of all this excitement the news from Summer Skills Online is that we have sent out registration confirmations to our second batch of recipients today. If you registered this week your parents should be getting an email. We need parents to reply to this email to confirm we have a working contact email for the summer.
If you have replied, thank you! If you have not yet please do as soon as you can. If you did not get an email, please check your junk email folders and spam filters to be sure Summer Skills emails are not being blocked. If you still did not receive an email please contact the coordinator's.
Thanks,
Mr. Sokoloski
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Questions from the classes...
I wanted to post a couple of answers to questions asked by students hearing about Summer Skills Online in their classes.
First - remember that you can register online from the menu choices if you want, or if you need an extra paper form you can print one out.
Second - even if you will be away you can do the program because all of the material is online. Or if you will be away from the Internet you can skip a week or two and catch up.
Third - We think that all the activities will work on smaller devices like tablets. You may have to make a choice in the Discovery Science activity about how the video is displayed. Check the video tutorial for some tips.
Mr. Sokoloski
First - remember that you can register online from the menu choices if you want, or if you need an extra paper form you can print one out.
Second - even if you will be away you can do the program because all of the material is online. Or if you will be away from the Internet you can skip a week or two and catch up.
Third - We think that all the activities will work on smaller devices like tablets. You may have to make a choice in the Discovery Science activity about how the video is displayed. Check the video tutorial for some tips.
Mr. Sokoloski
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
What A Group We Have!
Wow! We sent out about 25 emails yesterday to families of students who registered to make that we entered the correct email. We have 13 replies within 24 hours! That is great! Parents should check their emails (especially their junk email folders and spam filters) for a registration confirmation.
Now if you registered after Monday morning, not to worry. We will batch up any new registrations we got in and send them out as a batch on Thursday or Friday.
In other news, we have been having fun doing our presentations to Grade 3 & Grade 4 classes at Vinton School this week. It was really great to see the students in Ms. Hain's class try out one of our optional fun links in the Sample Week activities - the Walk Jog Run site - http://www.walkjogrun.net/.
Now if you registered after Monday morning, not to worry. We will batch up any new registrations we got in and send them out as a batch on Thursday or Friday.
In other news, we have been having fun doing our presentations to Grade 3 & Grade 4 classes at Vinton School this week. It was really great to see the students in Ms. Hain's class try out one of our optional fun links in the Sample Week activities - the Walk Jog Run site - http://www.walkjogrun.net/.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Registration Confirmation Email Going Out!
Today at about 3:30 PM we sent out our first batch of 27 emails to the families of students who registered for the program. The purpose of the email is to say hi, but also to make sure we have a working email for the family of every child registered. If you have registered, please check your email (including any junk email folder or spam filtering software) to be sure you got our message.
Thanks,
Mr. Sokoloski
Thanks,
Mr. Sokoloski
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Thursday News
We are now up to 18 participants! We have 6 from Southeast. We have 6 from Vinton and 6 from Goodwin!
The last Open House is tonight at Vinton School from 6-7PM and registrations will close June 20 (the last day of school for students).
Mr. Sokoloski
The last Open House is tonight at Vinton School from 6-7PM and registrations will close June 20 (the last day of school for students).
Mr. Sokoloski
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Welcome New Participants!
Summer Skills Online is starting to see some students registering by returning the paper registration forms and some folks using the online registration system. Welcome - Ryan, Cayden, Joeseph, Emerson, Deniel and Cathy.
We will be sending emails home to check out our email contacts the end of next week to formally welcome parents and students. Also remember that we can't set you up for Study Island until your regular year teachers are done with you, so if you want to try out the Sample Week Activities of Study Island, use the generic users we have put on the assignment page.
Our Open House Sessions for parents start tonight. You do not have to come to session to join, but if you are a parent and have questions, feel free. There is a session at the Southeast Computer lab tonight from 6PM-7PM, at Goodwin Computer Lab on Wednesday from 6-7PM and at Vinton Computer lab from 6-7PM on Thursday. You also do not have to go to the session at the school your child attends. Whatever is easiest for your family, is fine with us.
We will be sending emails home to check out our email contacts the end of next week to formally welcome parents and students. Also remember that we can't set you up for Study Island until your regular year teachers are done with you, so if you want to try out the Sample Week Activities of Study Island, use the generic users we have put on the assignment page.
Our Open House Sessions for parents start tonight. You do not have to come to session to join, but if you are a parent and have questions, feel free. There is a session at the Southeast Computer lab tonight from 6PM-7PM, at Goodwin Computer Lab on Wednesday from 6-7PM and at Vinton Computer lab from 6-7PM on Thursday. You also do not have to go to the session at the school your child attends. Whatever is easiest for your family, is fine with us.
Monday, June 4, 2012
The Southeast Experience
Yea!!! We have our first registration! thank you Noah! We finished last week by talking to Ms. Williams and Mrs. Sroka's class. This week it is on to the students at Southeast School. Mrs. Sangres's class is next!
Mr . Sokoloski
Mr . Sokoloski
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