Today’s Update!

Thursday, April 9th

I’m slowly populating our Lit Circle and Tribe tracking sheets and I’ve heard from all Tribes, except ORANGE. If you are part of the Orange Tribe, please let me know!

I’ve scheduled a *LIVE* meeting event for next week. Students, you should have received a message in your Outlook email. Please look for it and RVSP (so it can go into your calendars).

I also posted another “assignment”. This is the Lit Circle Tracking sheet to help you record your answers and submit to me. Don’t forget to “turn in” (blue button on the right side of the assignment).

I’ve now posted a Morning Message for every day this week and have had very few views. I think I will not continue these. If you want me to continue to post Morning Messages, leave me a comment below the video. Maybe you don’t know how to find these? I suggest you read the document Getting started with Office365 Teams and Sharepoint for Division 4

To get to the SharePoint homepage, where I post our daily tasks and Morning Messages, visit this link: https://sd41.sharepoint.com/sites/O365-Maywood-Division4/ 

Sorry parents, this is for Div. 4 team members only. But feel free to have your child share this site with you!

 

**Parents and Students:

Please read the document I prepared to help you navigate MS Teams and SharePoint. I posted it in Tuesday’s message below. It’s called: Getting started with Office365 Teams and Sharepoint for Division 4

Wednesday, April 8th

Please make sure you go to Lanaway’s Lounge EACH DAY and look for the day’s heading (today’s update). I will update this post (Week 1) every day this week. Next week I will make a new post (Week 2). 

I’m still waiting to hear from some people. Information I am looking for (or tasks you are to do this week):

  • a complete list of all the lit circle books out there. So far I have these books: Bunnicula, Unwanteds, Everything on a Waffle, Mockingbird, Belly Up, Loser, Ice Drift, Breadwinner, and Masterpiece. If your book is not in this list, I need to hear from you, please.
  • I have only heard from one Tribe Captain (Yellow); I still need to hear from the Captains of Orange, Green, Blue, and Purple. I would like to set up meeting times for each Tribe.
  • Last Friday I asked students to share something that they made or did and post it to their blogfolios. This tells me you are able to get into your blogs and remember how to make a post. Remember to include a picture.
  • Assignment #1 – The Learning Conditions Survey. Please complete and “turn in” through the “assignments” page in Teams/SharePoint. Try to complete this this week.
  • Assignment #2 – it is up, but the due date is in the distant future. Get started on that ONLY if you have done the above things.

Tuesday, April 7th

Hi friends! I’ve added today’s Morning Message to SharePoint. Many of you have logged in and are beginning to use Teams and access SharePoint. Good for you!

I’m still waiting for many more of you to turn in your first assignment. No worries! We’ll get there! In the meantime, I’ll be posting some extra activities to keep you busy before I post a new assignment. To keep up to date on these assignments and activities, please check SharePoint every morning to help you get started. Remember, this link takes you directly there: https://sd41.sharepoint.com/sites/O365-Maywood-Division4/

Here’s another document I made to help you navigate MS Teams and our homepage on SharePoint.

Getting started with Office365 Teams and Sharepoint for Division 4

Tasks for the day:

  • Find your first assignment! Complete and turn in.
  • Find my Morning Messages (there are three now). Leave a comment.
  • Find new links and activities posted to SharePoint: 1) Exercise task (YouTube link), 2) Canadian Reader PDF (reading and follow-up activities), 3) a weekly journal assignment is coming up later today.

Hi Friends!

I have spoken to most of you by now and have a better idea of how we can work together. Microsoft Teams will become the hub of information for you, while we’ll keep the Blogfolios for  posting work that you want to share with me and your parents.

Last Friday, I gave you some start up tasks:

  • Logging into Office365. Start by emailing your lit circle group members. Go to Outlook, compose an email, type the name of your classmate into the “To” section – their name should come up; you have to know your teammates first and last name.
  • Logging into your Blogfolio (parents too!). Post something you made or did recently. Take a picture and write about it. Publish to your blog.
  • Team leader from each lit circle book is to contact me to let me know who is all in the book group
  • Team captain from each tribe groups is to email me to let me know who is all in their tribe group
  • Daily activities have been given to you via the learning.burnabyschools.ca page. This will help you to create routine and activity in your day.

Monday, April 6

You should still be working on the tasks I’ve given you above. Once you’ve done that you can also start teaching yourself how to use MS Teams. I’ve shared some documents on that (see below; they were also emailed to parents). I’ve assigned one assignment so far, and also gave you the suggestion to play a game with your family – the Positivity Game (find in class materials in Teams). 

Getting into MS Teams:

  • Sign into Ofice365, the way you normally do
  • In the waffle board you can select Outlook (for email), Teams or SharePoint. There are multiple ways to navigate your various options. Please go straight to our SharePoint for the Div. 4 Team by going directly to the link (below). It is the quickest way to the home page for our Team. 
  • Once in SharePoint, please find my intro video message (Saturday, Apr 3) and leave a comment letting me know you watched the video. Also, find the first of my Morning Messages posted there (Morning Message Apr 6). Please leave a comment. Thanks!

https://sd41.sharepoint.com/sites/O365-Maywood-Division4/

This is all for now!

Stay well (and stay tuned!) ~ Ms. L