{"id":2242,"date":"2022-09-20T15:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2022-09-20T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T22:13:49","slug":"welcome-to-our-classroom-blog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/2022\/09\/20\/welcome-to-our-classroom-blog-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Our Classroom Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Families!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to our Kindergarten class blog\/website! In addition to the yellow communication folders, I have now created this blog to keep you updated on things happening in our school and classroom. Instead of sending home paper reminders of upcoming events, I want to be more environmentally friendly by using this blog as a way to communicate important information to you. Letters and forms from the PAC, school and community will still be coming home in the yellow folders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow I will be sending home a notice with instructions to access PASSWORD PROTECTED posts. Password Protected posts may have pictures of students in them. Please do not share this password.<br \/>\n**You are welcome to save photos that your child is in, but <u>please remember<\/u>: if there is another child in the photo you\u00a0<u>may NOT<\/u> post that picture on social media (ex. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, your own personal blog, etc.)**<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some posts will also include students engaged in classroom activities and samples of their work. These posts will complement the Kindergarten curriculum and will work as evidence of their learning. I would love to encourage you to comment on the posts!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Tips on Commenting and Supporting the Learning Process<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You will notice that I will be making comments about your child\u2019s learning and giving suggestions for their next steps.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you to be partners in your child\u2019s learning process throughout the year by commenting on the posts.<\/p>\n<p>Under any of the posts, there will be a COMMENT link &gt; click to open a box. (You can record in any language.)<br \/>\nSome suggestions for your comments are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Notice thoughts, capacities and growth.<\/li>\n<li>Connect with your child\u2019s opinions, stories or ideas<\/li>\n<li>Share your intellectual curiosity; wonder aloud<\/li>\n<li>Encourage<\/li>\n<li>Co-conspire\u2026 \u201cYou are interested in spiders? Me too, here\u2019s an interesting website I\u2019m reading about spiders.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I noticed you\u2026<\/li>\n<li>A few things you did well here are\u2026<\/li>\n<li>One thing I\u2019m seeing about your work is\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you enjoy future posts we include on our website!<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at Gina.Kovac@BurnabySchools.ca<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Gina Kovac<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Families! Welcome to our Kindergarten class blog\/website! In addition to the yellow communication folders, I have now created this blog to keep you updated on things happening in our school and classroom. Instead of sending home paper reminders of upcoming events, I want to be more environmentally friendly by using this blog as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}