Pre-Primary Remote Learning Plan

Pre-Primary teachers interact with students daily via Zoom for activities like Morning Meeting and story time.

Specialists, including art, dance, and music, will post one video per week on Seesaw for the 2-to-3-year-olds. Four-year-olds will also get a PE video, and all groups will receive one science and one Spanish video each week. The specialists’ videos include hands-on learning activities for parents and children, similar to what children do at school.

To get messages, activities, and resources from teachers, parents should check students’ Seesaw pages, classroom webpage on the school’s website, and email daily.

Please note that the online touch points and activities are designed to foster teacher-student connections. Children will have an average of one hour of screen time daily.

If campus were to close, we will resume instruction in a full-remote learning model.

Full-time remote learning for all students will include:

Parents can find weekly newsletters, resources, links, announcements, discussion boards, and information here on their class page. The class page can be found on the school’s password-protected portal called Blackbaud. Families will find a link to login in the upper right-hand corner of the website, next to the search icon.

Option for families who chose remote learning versus on-campus instruction.

An application used to post daily lessons or messages from teachers to their students. Students will submit completed work through their class in Seesaw. Additionally, Seesaw will be used to provide instructions for every asynchronous lesson, assignment, and/or activity.

An application that provides a platform for virtual meetings. In planning ahead, please visit zoom.us to install the free version of the application on your computer. If you need more help with installing Zoom or the specific step connected to Zoom, please contact help@lowellschool.org.

Independent lessons and/or work provided to the student that includes an instructional video. Families are encouraged to go at a pace that suits them to complete independent lessons.

Teachers are available for questions or help via email. Expectations:

• Teachers and specialists will post asynchronous Seesaw videos/lessons and other types of activities daily at 2:00 pm and on Tuesdays and Thursdays an additional video at 11:00 am. Teachers will be available via email to answer questions until the end of the school day. Our goal is to answer any questions or concerns within 24 hours.
• It will be important for you and your child(ren) to create a daily routine to consistently check their class page.

A scheduled time to interact “live” with teachers and/or class peers via Zoom.

We ask parents to help monitor remote learning by checking class pages, lessons and activities in Seesaw, and emails daily to guide children as questions arise. Please reach out to your child’s teachers, support staff, and administrators when you need support.

All messages, activities, and information directly related to assignments will be posted on Seesaw. All teacher to parent communication will be on the class pages on the password-protected portal of the website. You can navigate to your child(ren)’s class pages once you have logged in to the website.

Pre-Primary School parents will also receive information via email.

See the instructional video from Academic Technologist Sam Moser below if you need help accessing your child's class page.