Return to School Covid Safe

 

Return to School Covid Safe

Covid 19 is a pandemic that has affected every single one of us. The approaches to this disease have changed as time has passed. Our schools, our classrooms, and our students have been affected by how we have dealt with this disease. There have been significant disruptions to school due to the Coronavirus. We went from schools being closed to teaching virtually, going back to in-person teaching, quarantining because of our students being exposed, more cancelations, more virtual teaching, wearing masks, not requiring masks, and so on. Such confusing times!

New Norm

Because the Pandemic is now a part of our everyday life, teachers and students alike need to take precautions in order to not spread this virus.

Students need to learn how to Be Safe and Stay Safe while they are at school.

I have created a PowerPoint Slide Show-video to help your students understand the new “norm” that has come about because of the Covid 19 virus, as well as giving a basic explanation of its history.

Available on Amped Up Learning

Available on TPT

This is a teaching resource that can be used with primary students.

It is divided into four sections.

• A description of the illness.

Different ways Covid makes us sick.

• Ways to keep from getting the Covid germs.

  

  What we can do to avoid Covid germs.

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• Ways to greet school friends and stay Covid Safe.

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  Greeting school friends safely.

  
  
  
• Basic history of Covid.

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  Covid history.

  
  

There are questions at the end that can be used with your student to review the information that is presented, and it is the opportunity to discuss the why and how of all the changes that have come about due to the Pandemic.

The Pandemic is now a part of our reality, and this PowerPoint presentation is an opportunity to review and discuss it.

I have put the slide show and the video into a zip file. You have the choices to use the slide show, narrate and guide your students through each frame yourself, or you can use the narrated video and show it to your students. You will need to use a speaker.

This teaching resource has been updated to reflect 2022 CDC recommendations. If you would like to see their recommendations, go to CDC Covid 19.

I hope you and your students stay Covid Safe!

Debbie-Froggy About Teaching

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Topic-Based Journal Writing

                 
I am in the process of creating a set of topic-based Daily Journal Writing resources for Kindergarten and 1st-grade students. I’ve just completed one about Car Wash.

On Amped Up Learning

On Teachers Pay Teachers

Do you use daily writing journals with your students? How can writing in a journal format help your kids become writers? Should journal writing be evaluated? If I let them write using a journal, do I need to formally teach Writing? The answer to that last question is a definite “Yes”!

Now that I have set that straight, let’s move back to talking about journal writing. Journal writing is a great way to supplement your writing lessons.

This resource has been created with the standards in mind.

Common Core Standards-based.

Writing a label

Write about a picture

Stating an opinion

Make a list

Daily Writing Journal resources by Froggy About Teaching have the teacher in mind with a topic information page for each writing page the teacher can use to build the background.

topic info for each writing page

Daily Writing Journal resources by Froggy About Teaching have certain goals for your students.

• use sight words in each sentence

• refer to the alphabet strip to sound out words

• vowels and consonants are separated to visually see the difference

• label the picture

• use the picture to write about it

• word bank with nouns and vowels that can be used in their writing response

• independent prompt response

• writing checklist

These details are geared towards making this a safe writing space for your students to expand their writing, making this a quick assignment, strengthening their writing skills by making this a daily writing activity, and saving you time by making this resource a "printable."  To see more about this resource take a look at this video.

I hope your school year is one of making connections with your students and having students eager to learn!

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Debbie - Froggy About Teaching