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In the beginning of the year we spent much time on letter formation. Hear is a video describing the system we use. I will be attaching letter formation paper for the students to practice at home :)

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Below are some FREE online learning resources if you would like to explore them!

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With school districts starting the 2020/2021 school year online, parents and teachers are continually looking for online learning resources. Teachers have been tasked with delivering lesson plans and classroom activities as part of distance learning. Parents are trying to keep students on track with their studies and educational growth. We are here to help! This growing list offers a wealth of resources for all ages of students, parents, and teachers!

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Online Resources for Kids in Grades K-5

These sites have ready-to-use lesson plans and activities for a vast amount of subjects for younger students.

What It Is: This comprehensive program covers a wide variety of subjects for students aged 2-8 (Pre-K through second grade). It offers more than 850 self-guided lessons across 10 levels. A companion program focuses on teaching English as a second language for this age group.

What It Is: This MMO game gives kids something other online learning resources may lack: a sense of community. Students up to age 13 play games to learn across a range of topics (math, reading, social studies, science, and more), while also creating their own online persona and interacting with others in the game.

What It Is: Daily free resources and activities in American Sign Language and English, for young deaf children ages 3-10. They offer weekly activities based on their award-winning VL2 Storybook Apps to support bilingual language development. It is run by Motion Light Lab, part of a research center on Visual Language and Visual Learning at Gallaudet University.

What They're Offering: Free access to Motion Light Lab's award-winning VL2 ASL Storybook Apps. Every week, the Motion Light Lab offers a free Storybook App which includes daily offerings in ASL and English, live storytelling "sign aloud" on Mondays, and an ASL/English literacy lesson live-streamed every Wednesday on YouTube featuring deaf narrators and accompanying worksheets for a deeper dive into each story.

What It Is: BrainPop offers in-depth learning on topics across the curriculum for upper elementary and middle school students. Each topic includes videos, quizzes, related reading, and even coding activities. Teachers have access to planning and tracking resources too. They also offer BrainPop Jr., specially designed for younger kids.

What They're Offering: All schools get free access to their COVID-19/coronavirus online learning resources for talking to students about the topic.

What It Is: A character education video subscription series for K-2 students that highlight positive character traits, exemplified by prominent figures.

What It Is: A nonprofit and charity, Classroom Champions connects volunteer Olympians, Paralympians, Student-Athletes, and Professional Athletes to K-8 classrooms through a social and emotional based curriculum and mentorship experience.

What It Is: A fun and educational game-based environment where kids learn to code without any prior experience. After completing CodeMonkey's award-winning coding courses, kids will be able to navigate through the programming world with a sense of confidence and accomplishment.

What It Is: Turn writing assignments into something amazing with the illustrations, animations, and sound effects available. Kids can even write their own choose-your-own-adventure story!

What It Is: This research-based emotional skills program is designed for children ages 4-11 and gives kids practical tools for dealing with impulse control, frustration, and acting out. Emotional ABCs teaches children how to figure out what they're feeling, why they're experiencing that emotion, and how to make better choices for lifetime emotional resilience.

What It Is: Three beta-stage eLearning tools from the scientists in their R&D division to help improve reading, writing, and English language speaking skills.

What It Is: A science teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material, discussion questions, and more.

What It Is: Using multimedia Interactive Posters, students can express ideas with ease by combining images, graphics, audio, video, and text on one digital canvas!

What It Is: Happy Numbers helps teachers deliver quality math instruction, monitor progress, and math growth-all remotely. Students can access Happy Numbers from any Internet-enabled device (even a smartphone!).

What it is: HearBuilder, from Super Duper Publications, is an online, research-based, foundational literacy program. It helps students in PreK-Grade 5 strengthen skills in the essential pre-literacy areas of following directions, sequencing, auditory memory and phonological awareness.

What they're offering: HearBuilder is available free for 60 days. Teachers, parents and therapists can access self-directed activities and short and targeted tasks for students, as well as tools to monitor student progress. HearBuilder is accessible at school or during distance learning.

What It Is: Highlights @ Home is a new, free service for families and teachers that delivers themed content bundles twice a week from the well-known children's magazine creator, Highlights.

What It Is: iknowit is a site with over 500 common-core aligned activities and math games for students in the elementary grades. The site keeps track of progress, offers graphical hints and explanations, and there are also animated characters to cheer students along.

What They're Offering: A free 30 day trial with unlimited access and no credit card required.

What It Is: A platform for reading comprehension passages and skill assessment in early education and home schooling.

What It Is: Mentoring Minds impacts millions of students every day by partnering with principals and teachers across the country to improve student achievement and teach critical thinking. Find educator resources that focus on the 9 traits of Critical Thinking.

What They're Offering: Free coloring book in English and Spanish, as well as a new animated video series.

What It Is: Mindsets Live Classes and Open Math Challenges help teachers & families keep learning going in math, science, & STEAM with fun and creative real-world problem-solving.

What It Is: This popular differentiated learning site provides instruction across a wide array of elementary subjects. Available for at-home instruction and classroom instruction, online training on effectively using the site is also available.

What It Is: PebbleGo offers safe, interactive online research resources on topics selected by their teachers for students K-3.

What It Is: Hands-on, minds-on learning can happen anywhere and everywhere. If you're looking for STEMspiration because of an unexpected homeschooling need, you're in the midst of an uncommon education experience, or you just want to have some STEM fun, Pitsco has great resources that are always available for free.

What It Is: Produced by RedRover, Kind News magazine is a Parent's Choice Approved Award winning children's magazine that inspires readers to explore the relationship between people and animals. It includes engaging articles, colorful illustrations, activities, and games to help kids explore the relationship between people and animals and develop knowledge and skills necessary for empathy and kindness.

What They're Offering: KindNews.org includes free lesson plans, links to past issues, and humane-themed books.

What It Is: Scholastic created the Scholastic Learn at Home website to provide students with an array of learning journeys that span various content areas. Subscriptions include several learning opportunities per day, including projects based on articles and stories, virtual field trips, reading and geography challenges, and more.

What It Is: Seekadoo is a safe, kid-friendly search engine app for children ages 3-13. Seekadoo's content database is carefully curated to ensure appropriate material for children and integrated ad-blocking eliminates tracking and monetization of children's data so their digital footprints remain private.

What It Is: The Square Panda Smart Letters playset engages children's tactile and kinesthetic as well as visual and auditory senses, because neuroscience shows that early readers learn best in a multisensory environment.

What It Is: An online learning tool which provides personalized math and spelling practice. It adapts questions to each student, using engaging games and rewards for effort and achievement to build their confidence, and is proven to accelerate progress. Teachers can set focused work to consolidate existing knowledge and get real-time feedback on each individual child, making it an ideal home learning tool.

What it is: Super Duper Publications has created an online library of its most popular print materials to provide access for teachers and parents doing distance and hybrid/blended learning.

What they're offering: The Super Duper Digital Library is available at a discounted rate of 199.95 for an annual subscription or $19.95 for a monthly subscription. It provides more than 365 standards-based online resources (with more being added daily) for students PreK-Grade 5. Resources include unique, engaging instructional games, cards, and worksheets to target specific skills, such as basic concepts, literacy, grammar, social skills, critical thinking, sequencing, listening, early skills, articulation, phonemic awareness, memory, motor skills, sensory integration, phonics, reading, and more.

What It Is: Super Star Online, by Help Me 2 Learn, is a supplemental reading, phonics, and math program featuring a wide variety of songs, interactive activities, and games in an engaging and easy-to-use format. Features include the Super Star Motivational and Data Tracking System.

What It Is: Super Teacher Worksheets has tens of thousands of printable teaching resources for Kindergarten through 5th grade teachers and parents working with Pre-K through 5th grade students. Topics include math, reading, writing, phonics, grammar, spelling, science, and social studies.

What It Is: A digital series that aims to give young people a fun and active way to use their imaginations while learning about the process of creating theater.

What It Is: A nationwide writing curriculum designed for teachers, administrators, and parents. It takes away the stress of finding and developing a curriculum for their students.

What It Is: A program for PreK-1st grade students and those with special needs to learn to write their letters, numbers, and shapes using fun visuals, rhythmic chants, and repetition.

What It Is: A web-based keyboarding program that teaches students how to type and has unique transdisciplinary Common Core and NGSS aligned content provided through its lessons.

What It Is: Virtual Field Trips specializes in K-8 social studies, life science, geography, and ancient civilization curriculum content. Their website has online learning videos and quizzes along with a list of the national and state Standards that the videos align with.

What It Is: An easy-to-use platform designed to empower K-8 students to master math content at their own pace.

Online Learning Resources for Grades 6-12

Use these ready-to-implement resources in your virtual classrooms for older learners.

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What It Is: A complete web-based math curriculum designed to help students ages 8-13 deepen their understanding of math.

What It Is: Math lessons, skills practice resources, and at-home learning videos for grade 6-12 students.

What It Is: NativeAccent delivers spoken English skills practice with targeted feedback to students on their computers and mobile devices using advanced speech recognition and A.I. technologies.

What It Is: Software engineers from some of the leading technology companies, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, are volunteering their time to help students learn how to code while schools are closed.

What It Is: Free, interactive virtual classes open to students, teachers, and anyone else interested in learning to code in a fun and engaging manner through game development. The program is aligned to ISTE Standards for computer science education.

What It Is: GeoInquiries™ are free, standards-based, online explorations of maps and data about a wide variety of content plus an initial introduction. Any school can also request a free account with logins for teachers and students, so they can create, save, and share content, with free Mapping Hour videos to instruct teachers and parents.

What They're Offering: Free online content and accounts for schools on an interactive mapping platform. Learn More.

What It Is: Everydae is an online SAT math prep program. 10-minute micro lessons match busy schedules. Built by industry experts with 17+ years industry experience.

What It Is: Teaches STEM and STEAM with a game design focus. GameSalad is best suited for 6th grade and up depending on student readiness. Detailed instructions for students and full lesson plans for teachers make a great introduction to coding.

What It Is: A unique cultural immersion resource for Spanish, French and German language learning for grades 6-12. iCulture offers travel videos, day in the life videos, current news articles, and songs that are all 100% target language, age and school appropriate, and include topics of interest to teens and young adults.

What It Is: Popfizz CS is a computer science education platform for grades 6-12. Popfizz offers a wide range of online student courses and professional development for educators.

What They're Offering: All their tools are easily accessible on their website for free.

What It Is: An interactive AP Biology course with engaging content and interactive activities in the form of quizzes and flashcards to provide immediate reinforcement of the material. Teachers can assign portions of the course to their students, and track their progress. Or students can work independently and track their own progress!

What It Is:Thousands of free study guides, test prep, and video learning resources.

What It Is: Resources include free trials to Vernier Video Analysis™ and Pivot Interactives, the Vernier Physics with Video Analysis e-book and extended demo of the LoggerPro software needed to complete the experiments, Scratch coding activities, experiment content and access from ADInstruments and LabArchives, and more than 200 experiments with sample data covering a large range of subjects. With these tools, teachers can help students form a deep understanding of key scientific concepts outside the classroom and laboratory.

What It Is: VidCode is an online coding and computer science curriculum specifically for teens. It teaches JavaScript, web programming, design, and more.

What It Is: Online close reading instruction, leveled authentic texts with comprehension quizzes, and gamified vocabulary for grades 6-12.

K-12 Online Learning Resources

These sites have lesson plans and activities ready to go on a variety of subjects for any grade.

What It Is: A comprehensive suite of digital solutions that significantly accelerate literacy and deepen learning across the content areas.

What They're Offering: Achieve3000 Literacy at Home Digital provides access to engaging non-fiction articles at 3 reading levels. Sign up for a free account here. Additionally, they are offering Literacy Printable Packets for students who do not have internet access at home.

What It Is: K-12 personalized online math instruction that provides each student with a unique study path through skills at each level. Individual study plans are prescriptive, adaptive, and automatically assigned

What It Is: An eBook hosting platform for schools and libraries.

What It Is: BoomWriter offers a variety of tools, features, and resources that lets teachers conduct fiction, nonfiction, and vocabulary-focused writing assignments. BoomWriter inspires students to write on any subject and integrates easily with existing curriculum. Try it for ELA, Social Studies/History, Science, and even Math.

What It Is: A digital portfolio that allows students and educators to shape knowledge and ideas into practical, usable, and shareable work. With bulb, educators can track progress, measure competency, and create dynamic curricula or use one of their templates.

What It Is: A PreK-12 educational company that provides a supplemental, and highly differentiated literacy digital curriculum with demonstrated efficacy.

What It Is: CCC! Streaming Media helps students visualize printed text and aids their understanding of complex concepts. The content has been vetted by educators and aligned to Common Core and state standards, and is supplemented with Teacher's Guides, Student Activities, and Knowledge Checks (quizzes).

What It Is: Century was designed as an intervention tool to identify and remedy gaps in a student's education. It uses artificial intelligence to tailor the learning experience to the learner, much like an actual teacher in the classroom would.

What It Is: ClassHook offers quality media clips on every conceivable topic. Pre-curated playlists make it easier to find what you need for the subject at hand.

What It Is: Crabtree Publishing Company is dedicated to producing high-quality books and educational products for K-9+. Through their website, different selections of their books can be accessed along with free online resources that are included in a Crabtree subscription.

What It Is: The Critical Thinking Co. publishes award-winning PreK-12+ educational textbooks, activity books, e-books, and apps that help children become better problem-solvers. The approach is unique: help kids develop foundational reasoning & critical thinking skills while learning the core subjects (reading, writing, math, science, and social studies).

What It Is: Discovery Education provides online textbooks, multimedia content, and professional development support for virtual classrooms and teachers. Daily DE offers supplemental learning activities, including virtual field trips and lessons, for both educators and parents that will update daily to align with a new educational theme.

What It Is: Innovative math and science online solutions that are fun to use and really work. Gizmos, Reflex, and Science4Us are used in classrooms in every state and over 50 countries worldwide.

What It is: Hip-hop videos and instructional activities that promote literacy and spark creativity.

What It Is: Follett offers over 1,000 PreK-12 titles in science, social studies, language arts, math, and more. AV2 World Languages features high-interest titles in 10 different languages with full audio support. Parents and students will find these resources interactive, easy to use and a great way for students to independently explore a new topic.

What It Is: Interdisciplinary, curriculum-aligned resources to support online learning from Pre-K through undergraduate; Live and on-demand training materials to help optimize existing resources; Professional development eBooks to help transition to and strengthen virtual learning and Authoritative Gale resources on health-related topics and global issues.

What It Is: A math practice program for concept mastery and retention.

What They're Offering: Free, unlimited trial usage for schools until July 2021.

What It Is: Original, fully-customizable musicals that not only enhance Reading and Communication skills, but also employ Arts Integration and Social Emotional Learning to encourage strong character development both onstage and off.

What It Is: A website loaded with standards-aligned lessons, games, and activities that will keep K-8 students engaged while learning from home.r.

What It Is: A highly adaptable program that teaches challenging life skills to school students with various special needs. The full program offers 39 lessons, 65 videos, visual components, and role plays around the topics of hygiene, social skills, relationships development, and health that can be implemented both virtually and face-to-face.

What It Is: InferCabulary is a web-based, research-backed, device-agnostic, K-12, fun, game-based, visual approach for teaching nuanced vocabulary that simultaneously improves students' critical thinking skills. InferCabulary is the opposite of rote memorization of definitions - they mimic the act of avid readership so students deeply learn words and improve comprehension.

What It Is: Do you Kahoot! Teachers have loved this fun online quiz game platform for years. Here's why we're into it.

What They're Offering: Kahoot! Basic is free for educators and students, but they're also currently offering their Premium distance learning tools for free. Learn more here- Kahoot!

What It Is: A weekly current events-based program. It presents engaging and important stories from around the world in a newsmagazine format.

What It Is: An online core supplement for grades 1-12 that was designed to be used in classrooms to help teachers with increasing responsibilities and numbers of students.

What It Is: At the Lerner Bookshelf, they've set up two collections of eBooks (Grades PreK-5 and Grades 6-12) that allow for unlimited simultaneous access by every student in a school. They also offer reading book lists, videos, educational downloads, information on authors who are available for virtual visits, and more.

What It Is: Listenwise teaches students to be better listeners using podcasts, comprehension questions, and quizzes.

What It Is: MAD-learn's web-based mobile app development tool is a holistic set of modules for students to experience the software development lifecycle firsthand.

What It Is: NGSS based science lessons for 4th-8th graders that can easily be done from home.

What It Is: This is the only online learning management system for teaching music at all age levels. Band practice might be off the table for now, but students can still work on theory, notation, sight-reading and more.

What It Is: The NASA STEM Engagement site offers STEM resources, activities, lesson plans, virtual field trips, and more! Also check out NASA Home and City to find out how space travel impacts your daily life.

What They're Offering: Explore the Hubble Telescope and listen to astronauts share their stories. All for free!

What They're Offering: All resources are free.

What It Is: News-O-Matic features five daily news stories specifically for kids, written at a variety of reading levels from grades K through 8. Every story is translated by native speakers from English into Spanish, French, and Arabic. And all these texts, at all levels and languages, are read out loud so kids can listen along. Teachers have access to a special dashboard to track students' reading progress, change their reading levels, and see students' answers to comprehension questions for each article.

What it is: PBLWorks, the leading provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has created a free eBook to support high-quality Project Based Learning at home.

What they're offering: This Teachable Moment, a free downloadable eBook offers a primer on Project Based Learning (PBL) and 21 easy implemented, "follow the recipe" PBL projects, informed by educational research and designed for children of all ages. Projects such as creating a cooking show focused on family recipes and the history behind them, or creating a plan for a new school that meets our new reality, engage children in real-world issues and activities that matter to them while also teaching concepts like literacy, math and more.

What It Is: Perfection Next is a digital learning platform offering access to our entire catalog of digital resources including AMSCO Advanced Placement, Language Arts, Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies, and World Languages.

What It Is: A web-app that gives teachers and students a unique way to create stories, demonstrate learning, and enhance writing assignments - in any subject - through digital comics. Users can explore topics in Math, Science, Social Studies, History, English, Art, or any other subject. They can also choose images from popular content, books and movies like The Hunger Games or The Outsiders, plus other topics like the solar system, black history, or the environment - all Common Core aligned.

What They're Offering: All-access for free for 30 days during the COVID-19 crisis. Learn more here- Pixton EDU.

What It Is: Quill offers a set of diagnostic assessments and independent practice activities that focus on grammar, sentence construction, and other writing and literacy skills. All the while, Quill provides teachers with free, in-depth data reports on student performance.

What It Is: An online guided reading tool that "listens" while a student reads a selection aloud, detects when they falter, and provides immediate intervention in the form of correct pronunciation.

What It Is: Teachers and parents can keep their child's reading instruction moving forward with Reading Horizons' library of virtual webinars and lessons.

What It Is: Readorium helps students learn nonfiction reading strategies as they build rich background knowledge in science at school or at home.

What It Is: RoboKind's virtual coding course will help districts provide elementary and middle school students with engaging computer science content during this unexpected period of school closures.

What It Is: Rozzy Learning has engaging lesson plans and other resources for science, social studies, math, and STEM for K-8th grade.

What It Is: This brand-new virtual classroom platform integrates PowerPoint, Zoom video webinars, and Slido quizzes into one streamlined package.

What It Is: SMART Learning Suite is a virtual classroom platform that easily integrates everything you already have on Google Drive or in Microsoft documents. You can add videos and other online resources as needed.

What It Is: Join their expert staff in learning about awesome topics like 3D design, video game design, coding, and more all from home. Their staff deliver lessons virtually and are available live to help provide targeted guidance and assistance to students as they work through awesome activities and projects.

What It Is: Study Island provides standards-based practice, test preparation, and formative assessments in grades K-12. Students get feedback to guide their learning and educators get immediate data to determine who needs intervention and who is ready to move on.

What It Is: A K-12 publishing company that creates science and social studies curriculum to enable educators to improve their ability to engage students in a diverse classroom.

What It Is: With Tyto Online, students solve authentic science problems as they learn, using a video game to power their experience. 'Tyto Online' is NGSS-aligned, covering life science and some Earth and space science.

What It Is: These online learning resources are specifically for those who teach French, Spanish, and ESL. Students get audio and video, interactive writing and speaking exercises, and more.

What It Is: Students and families can access news stories about the world, politics, United States, science, sports, and more. Xyza also recently launched www.newsicle.co where students try and answer one news-related trivia quiz every weekday.

What They're Offering: Completely free and unlimited access to 1000+ Xyza: News for Kids articles.

Remote Learning and Virtual Classroom Platforms

These sites allow you to follow your existing lesson plans by creating your own online learning resources. Some also provide the platforms you need to host virtual interactive multimedia classrooms.

What It Is: With Bloomz, teachers and schools save time by having all the tools they need to communicate with today's parents and students in one easy-to-use (and free) app.

What It Is: Life Skills Academy by Conover is an online video library designed to be used outside the classroom so parents or guardians can help learners with disabilities learn how to function independently at home, work, or in the community. Based on the concept of video modeling, users watch someone do the desired behavior and then do it themselves.

What It Is: EduGuide saves schools time and money by efficiently multiplying their student support system, building self-motivation that keeps students learning, even when they are remote. EduGuide provides a simple way for every student to both be mentored by a caring adult and learn to mentor their peers on key social-emotional SEL habits that boost student success.

What It Is: Teachers can access a collection of learning paths from some of the most well-known thought leaders in education covering topics such as Understanding by Design, Habits of Mind, Social Emotional Learning, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Personalized Learning, and Growth Mindset.

What It Is: Get the most out of Google Classroom and other Google tools with this platform. They offer webinars and other resources to help teachers create and manage the best virtual classrooms.

What It Is: A cloud-based solution from Impero Software to help schools manage and record student safety and health information, from first aid to COVID-19 symptom tracking, to more complex mental health issues. Impero back:drop gives districts a way to keep track of and communicate about potential concerns safely and securely and eliminates the need for paper-based reporting systems.

What They're Offering: Impero has made Impero back:drop free indefinitely, helping schools fill a critical need for staying on top of student mental and physical concerns during the pandemic and beyond.

What It Is: A collaborative online image and video editor with a cloud storage Workspace. Teachers can make video lessons to send to students for remote learning, students can work together on a group project, and classrooms can share multimedia projects with each other.

What It Is: Projector App helps teachers project their real word notes onto a professional-looking, virtual blackboard.

What it is: PBLWorks, the leading provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has created a free eBook to support high-quality Project Based Learning at home.

What they're offering: This Teachable Moment, a free downloadable eBook offers a primer on Project Based Learning (PBL) and 21 easy implemented, "follow the recipe" PBL projects, informed by educational research and designed for children of all ages. Projects such as creating a cooking show focused on family recipes and the history behind them, or creating a plan for a new school that meets our new reality, engage children in real-world issues and activities that matter to them while also teaching concepts like literacy, math and more.

What It Is: A cloud-based lesson delivery software service that energizes students with polling, timed assessments, interactive lessons, activities, and millions of immersive resources from educators around the world. ClassFlow is certified by iKeepSafe as compliant with federal and state requirements for handling protected personal information, including student data, and is safely used by over 4.5 million students worldwide.

What It Is: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy. Its award-winning AI-powered software safeguards children and their mental wellbeing when using their mobile devices, without sacrificing their privacy. The app provides an intelligent safeguarding keyboard and wellbeing tools that respond in real-time to help children make better decisions online, identify when they are under threat or distress, and prevent messages from being sent that could harm them and others.

What It Is: Free K-12 Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies resources! Create effective classwork and assignments that have been proven to increase performance. All content is designed to engage and challenge students at their own level./li>

What It Is: Keep your music students practicing at home with this online music classroom. You can track student progress, and they'll get instant feedback from the online tools.

What It Is: More than just a computer, classroom, STEM kits, or a project - SmartLabs are a comprehensive and immersive solution.

What It Is: StudyBee is a grading and student feedback system that extends Google Classroom functionality, with the ability to link assignments to custom or standardized educational objectives from the US.

What It Is: A collaborative presentation tool used for all grade levels that works perfectly for the remote classroom.

What It Is: An online bookmarker for educators. Committed to making personalized learning and educational technology easily accessible for everyone, everywhere.

What It Is: Companies across the world use Webex to keep their teams in contact remotely. They offer lots of tools that are ideal for taking your classes online.

What It Is: Rather than fighting smartphones, Wooclap turns them into an exceptional learning tool. Wooclap is a free tool to help maintain interactivity and effective pedagogy. Their goal is to capture the attention of students to improve their learning whether they're in the classroom or at home taking an online course.

What It Is: Project your lessons in group settings with Zoom. You can even record the sessions for students who need to review later. This video and audio conferencing tool has a chat functionality where students can ask questions as you teach.

Professional Development & Training

These sites assist with continuing professional development and curriculum for teachers.

What It Is: Nomadic is a digital learning pioneer launching a Remote Work Boot Camp to help newly remote folks get better equipped to face our current working reality.
Feeling overwhelmed? You're definitely not alone. Join fellow educators in the WeAreTeachers Chat group on Facebook to get support from others just like you.

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April and May are important months for our kindergarteners as we diligently prepare them for first grade. With that being said we are providing the students with additional resources to better meet their needs. We will do this by using Clever, a program the students will be using throughout their time at Franklin Park School.

Video Chatting and Clever:

To access clever first click here: Clever Login

You will then click Login with google.

Your login is IDNUMBER@stu.franklinboe.org

Password is abc

Click here for a video of myself showing you the features of clever and how to access our video chat through clever as well.

You can access your student ID number through genesis or by messaging us on remind or through email.

You cannot video chat if you have not filled out the form on genesis. If you did not fill out the form but still would like to participate via phone call you may do that as well please let us know.

Our video chat schedule is as follows for the week of April 14-17th, 2020:

Wednesday: Whole Group Morning Call 10:00

Thursday: Optional: One on One call with your designated contact (myself or Ms. Marcou). You are welcome to do both whole group and one on one sessions please email us or remind message us to set up a time.

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Happy Friday, Everyone!

I’ve created a website https://sites.google.com/a/franklinboe.org/counselor/home

That will now hopefully give our FPS families full access to my resources and postings as we move forward!  Hoping to get a link to it put on the FPS website homepage shortly!!!

Wanted you to have today’s post in case you wanted to push it out to families as it relates to Spring Break ideas- or maybe just push out the website above?:

Spring Break Ideas!

Happy Friday, FPS Families!!!   As we begin our Spring Break,  with our travels limited, I wanted to provide you with some ideas on what you can do with your family!  "Virtual Field Trips" - you may want to explore different places together,  so please refer to the attached document, (link below)!    A few other suggestions:   'Lunch Doodles" with Author Mo Willems every weekday at 1pm - kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willemsColoring Book- print out pages of art from 23 celebrated illustrators - everychildareader.net/cbw/coloring-pages-2020Young Writer's Blueprint - creative writing by Author, Alice Kuipers - writingblueprints.com/p/writing-course-ages-6-10How about Cooking together with a meal kit - delivered/shipped - ingredients and recipes - right to your home??Blueapron.com, dinnerly.com, eatcleanbor.com, everyplate.com, gobble.com, greenchef.com, hellofresh.com, homechef.com, hungryroot.com, marleyspoon.com, purplecarrot.com, realeats.comBreak out the Games!For Ages 3 and older:Boggle Junior, Ladybug game, picture sequencing, Tanagrams plus, Busytown Eye Found It!, Snug as a Bug in a Rug, Hoot Owl Hoot, Zingo 1-2-3, HiHo! Cherry-O, Robot Turtles, Coder Bunnyz, Pigs in Pants, Little Red Riding Hood Deluxe, Funny Bunny, Monopoly Jr., Blokus, Brain FreezeFor ages 6 and older:Qwirkle, Zingo Sight Words, The Ungame, Animal Mastermind Towers, Dominoes, Connect 4, Uno, Bananagrams, Head Full of NumbersFor ages 8 and older:Rock On! Geology Game, Clumsy Thief, Galaxy Trucker, Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters!, BoggleFor the entire family:Chess, Backgammon, Yahtzee, Rummikub, Jenga, Scrabble, checkers, card games, Trouble, Clue, MemoryOutdoors....Take a walk or bike ride and discuss what you see, feel and smellClean up the yard, Sweep, Mulch, Start a Garden, plant some spring flowers like pansies, rake up winter's leaves or plant seeds - lettuce, peas, radish seeds can be planted nowKidsgardening.org has many garden projects and craft ideas using nature and the environmentChalk Draw on the sidewalks and driveway Play outside - Kick a ball, throw a frisbee, hopscotch 4 square, jumprope, fly a kiteIndoors.....Look at old photos and share their memoriesPrint your photos and write on the backs of them for posterityWrite old-fashioned letters and postcardsEncourage and help your kids re-do their roomsMake a new play space by cleaning part of your attic or basementSort/Organize the toysFind/sort/wrap coinsClean out your junk drawer(s) together and find family treasuresFingerpaint - you can use shaving cream on the walls during a bath, or use chocolate pudding (edible finger paint) on a plate or kitchen counterThe good thing about being home is that we have all slowed down and now have the time to strengthen the bonds with our children and 'Make those Memories'!  They Grow up so fast, Cherish the time together!  I would like to leave you with one of my favorite poems that we may all actually have the time for now............If I Had My Child to Raise Over Againby Diane LoomansIf I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.
I'd fingerpaint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less and know to care more.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
I'd see the oak tree in the acorn more often.
I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.
I'd model less about the love of power,
And more about the power of love.

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A calming Friday read aloud.  https://www.getepic.com/

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The San Diego Zoo also has live cameras! I have been watching the elephants; as you know those are my favorite! What is your favorite animal to watch?

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Enjoy archived footage of Bai Yun and Xiao Liwu at the San Diego Zoo recorded from January through April 2019.

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The Georgia Aquarium has a ton of live webcams where you can see into the exhibits. I have attached the link so you can watch as well. Scroll to find all of the live exhibits being shared with the public, as well as information about the animals you are watching.

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HOLIDAY HOURS 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Explore the Lives of African Penguins

Transport yourself to the tip of Southwestern Africa to learn all about our black and white bird-friends.

Dive Into More Aquarium Experiences

Set Sail on a Virtual Field Trip

Georgia Aquarium offers educational virtual programs for grades K-12. Educators can immerse their classrooms in the Aquarium today.

Learn More

Embark on a Cold Water Quest Virtual Tour

Explore the coldest reaches of our planet as you learn about the lives of sea otters, penguins, belugas, and more.

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Get Something Like an Eco Penguin Plush

This soft and huggable plush, created from 100% recycled materials (including 8 recycled plastic bottles) is perfect for the earth lover on your list.

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Support Georgia Aquarium

Please consider supporting the Aquarium today so we can continue delivering amazing animal experiences for everyone.

Buy Tickets

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African Penguin Webcam | Live from Georgia Aquarium | Downtown Atlanta

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Check out our live stream webcam from our African penguin habitat from Georgia Aquarium. Just glimpse of what you'll see in person, when you visit.

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Comment down below what makes you unique. For example, I am unique because I have curly hair.

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Som made spring painting with his fingers and forks.

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While cleaning out the garage with my family I found this whiteboard perfect for remote learning. Please see this challenging math lesson I've prepared for the students. Sometimes I move a little quickly (I'm not the best at being in front of the camera :) so please feel free to slow the video by pausing and discussing!

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This activity does not require you to print out. All you need to do

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When we practice our red words with the students we show them this slide show. As each word comes up the students monster spell the words. Feel free to do this activity at home :)

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It loads more quickly if you click open in a new window!

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Hi Ms. B and Ms. M! We wanted to show you what we made yesterday! Salt dough sculptures. Christmas ornaments and a police car!

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https://www.ageoflearning.com/school_closure_pdf/ParentLetter_AofL_SCHOOL5754.pdf

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Math Read Aloud and Phonemic Awareness Warm Up!

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Math Read Aloud and Phonemic Awareness Warm Up!

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Phonemic awareness is one of our main practices as kindergarteners. It is the building block of fluent readers. Play along with me as I set you up with some phonemic awareness challenges :)

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Look for the rhyming words as I read and comment below some that you may have heard!

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Hey everyone! Here is a youtube channel which shows us live footage of penguins, jellyfish, and even our class's favorite SHARKS! Check them out!

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What's inside is outside! The kelp forests of Cannery Row inspired our founders to build the Aquarium over three decades ago. Walking through the exhibit hall, you get a diver's-eye-view of the Monterey Bay, minus the wetsuit smell :P
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Natural History
This majestic giant of the kelp forest grows faster than tropical bamboo-about three to five inches each day in our exhibit and 10 to 12 inches in the bay. Under ideal conditions, giant kelp can grow an astonishing two feet each day.

Held upright by gas-filled bladders at the base of leaflike blades, kelp fronds grow straight up to the surface, where they spread across the top of the water to form a dense canopy. Giant kelp often grows in turbulent water, which brings renewed supplies of nutrients, allowing the plants to grow to a possible height of 175 feet. The stemlike stipes are tough but flexible, allowing the kelp to sway in ocean currents. Unlike a proper root system, the holdfast-a coneshaped mass of branching extensions called haptera-doesn't carry nutrients or water; it anchors the kelp to a rock.

In Monterey Bay
Found mostly in near-shore waters, this algae's growing season begins in March and peaks in early autumn when the forest's luxuriant fronds carpet the bay. Like an apartment building, the towering kelp provides a wide variety of places to live from the basement and middle stories, to the penthouse up top. Food is plentiful here as well. Invertebrates graze on the blades, fish seek shelter in the fronds and thousands of invertebrates live in the root-like holdfast-such as brittle stars, sea stars, anemones, sponges and tunicates.

Sea otters also like to hang out in the kelp forest, where they find their favorite foods and can wrap up in a kelp frond to keep from drifting away at naptime. (The Aquarium's back decks are a great place to spot them!) Sea otters play a particularly important role in the health or the bay's kelp forests; without them, sea urchins-which normally eat pieces of kelp that fall to the seafloor-will feed on the stipes of giant kelp plants and can completely destroy a kelp bed. Otters keep the urchins in check so the kelp forests can thrive.

Conservation
Kelp is harvested for use in aquaculture. Studies seem to show little, if any, negative affects from harvesting. Kelp could be seen as a renewable resource.

Sludge, silt or sewage dumped near kelp forests can cover and destroy the microscopic stage of giant kelp.

Cool Facts
Giant kelp is harvested as a source of algin, an emulsifying and binding agent used in the production of many foods and cosmetics, like ice cream, toothpaste and cereals.

Pieces of decomposing kelp (detritus) sink to the depths of the ocean, providing food for deep sea creatures.

As kelp grows, a blade at the tip of each frond separates, producing a series of tiny new blades. The logo of the Monterey Bay Aquarium represents the tip of a growing kelp plant. Show less

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What's inside is outside! The kelp forests of Cannery Row inspired our founders to build the Aquarium over three decades ago. Walking through the exhibit hall, you get a diver's-eye-view of the Monterey Bay, minus the wetsuit smell :P__ Natural HistoryThis majestic giant of the kelp forest grows faster than tropical bamboo-about three to five inches each day in our exhibit and 10 to 12 inches in the bay.

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Some STEAM work you can do at home if you Legos or blocks!

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In 2008, Duke Farms installed a webcam on a tree adjacent to a Bald Eagle nest to provide a live look at the daily lives of the eagles. In partnership with The Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, lesson plans were created to facilitate place-based educational opportunities for students. Between the general public and classrooms up and down the east coast, the Duke Farms Eagle Cam has many fans – over 10 million viewers and growing!

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In 2008, Duke Farms installed a webcam on a tree adjacent to a Bald Eagle nest to provide a live look at the daily lives of the eagles. In partnership with The Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, lesson plans were created to facilitate place-based educational opportunities for students. Between the general public and classrooms up and down the east coast, the Duke Farms Eagle Cam has many fans – over 10 million viewers and growing!

It is important to remember that although we have access to witness their behaviors, the eagles are still wild animals. If you find the nesting behaviors of the eagle chicks bothersome or disturbing, do not watch the Eagle Cam.

April Update:

The nest will be visited on April 11, 2022, by Fish & Wildlife ENSP biologists who will band, measure, and take blood samples from the young bird. The camera live stream will be turned off during the banding.

March Update:

Unfortunately, the second chick doesn’t look like it's doing well and didn’t get any food yesterday. It appears he has health problems that we cannot know about. Usually, a smaller chick will do fine as long as there's plenty of food like there is in this nest. So, we suspect there is an underlying problem the chick was born with. It is difficult to watch and while we still hold out a small hope that this little one rallies, the reality doesn’t look good. We can be glad that this pair still has one healthy chick. This type of situation goes on in eagles’ nests all over the state, we just don’t witness it up close and we will not intervene.

Bald eagles are a state endangered species and the jurisdiction falls under the State of NJ, not private landowners like Duke Farms.
While we are supportive advocates of wildlife conservation, we leave the management decisions to the State.

The eagle’s comeback in NJ from a single nesting pair in 1980 to more than 200 pairs today is a success story and a tribute to habitat and conservation work by the Division of Fish and Wildlife. Watching nature on a camera is a raw experience but shows the full and often hard circle of life in nature. While seeing a non-flourishing chick is hard for us as viewers, it is important to understand that overall, the species population is rising.  Intervening in a nest situation has the potential to do more harm than good because it would disturb the adults, disrupt normal behaviors, and could risk the health and safety of this eagle family. As such, the State will not intervene with what are deemed natural solutions in the nest.

We appreciate everyone’s concern and understanding. Thank you.
-Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ, NJ DEP Endangered & Nongame Species Program, Duke Farms

2022 Season
Egg 1 laid: January 17, 2022
Egg 2 laid: January 20, 2022

Egg 1 hatched: February 24, 2022
Egg 2 hatched: February 28, 2022

Eagle Kits for the Classroom

We've compiled all of our eagle-themed lessons, several storybooks and field guides, life-sized replicas of an eagle egg, skull, talon, a life-sized wingspan cutout, vinyl eagle photo, and even an eagle costume! Eagle Kits are free for educators to borrow for up to three weeks at a time.

Click here to learn more about Eagle Kits and reservations.

Check out our Virtual Eagle Kit for Distance Learning lessons.

The Duke Farms Bald Eagles Book by Jim Wright

Have you seen Duke Farms' Bald Eagle free online e-book yet? If not, what are you waiting for? You can view it on any electronic device with Internet access.
(The e-book was done with the help of the good folks at Conserve Wildlife Foundation.)

Download the e-book PDF here.

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-the cam is currently down for the remainder of the 2020 season, click for details - In 2008, Duke Farms installed a webcam on a tree adjacent to a Bald Eagle nest to provide a live look at the daily lives of the eagles. In partnership with The Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, lesson pla…

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We miss you all so much and Mrs. Bellizio is so excited to meet you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FohfGCYoy8k&feature=youtu.be

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Hey everyone! My  friend Mr. Ryan is a medical assistant and he wanted to show us the importance of washing our hands and so we did this science experiment together!. Why do you think the soap made the germs run away? Send me some pictures if you try this ay home too :)

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What Happens to the germs on your hands when you use soap?

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Some ideas to get up and getting moving!

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Some ideas to get up and getting moving!

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Javi said Hi Ms. Marcou! Can she hear us? Haha. And he said he loves this book.

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OPTIONAL: Share Your Contact with your Friends!

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OPTIONAL: Share Your Contact with your Friends!

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I know it's sad not being in school but it's even more sad that we don't get to see our friends everyday. If you would like to share your email with your friends please comment down below, this way if you want you can reach out to your friends. Comment below:

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https://www.instagram.com/petethecatofficial/?hl=en

Pete the Cat will be reading live videos every day at noon on his instagram live.

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Ms B and Ms M

Som made a spring painting today with his fingers and fork😊.
Happy spring !

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Hello Miss B and Miss M - Veer missing you both and his friends at school

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Enjoy! Talk with your family about how you are feeling. How can you make yourself feel happy? Go outside, read a good book, play a game, color, draw, do a puzzle, play with your toys. Have a great day and do your school work!

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Good morning everyone! I miss all of you so much! I hope you have started your school work and are showing your families just how much you know! Look out for a read aloud from Ms. Marcou today! See you later!

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Remember the padlet is just EXTRA for those of us who are able to access the internet. You must complete the activities assigned in your remote learning days packet so we can count it towards your students attendance for the year

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Listening: Have students listen to a sequence of sounds in their environment with their eyes closed. Then have them recall the sounds in the correct order.

Whisper Your Name: Have one child with their eyes closed or blindfolded. The other children whisper their names as the “listener” tries to find a particular person.

Nonsense: Create “nonsense” with known poems and songs. For example, “Baa baa purple sheep” or “Twinkle, twinkle, little car”. Students have to reveal what is wrong in the stanza and how to fix it.Slime a Rhyme: Stick objects in “slime” in a bowl. Have student pick out an object, name it and come up with a rhyming word. As an alternative, have rhyming objects in the bowl. Students have to find two objects that rhyme (car and star).

I’m Going on a Picnic: The teacher states: “I’m going on a picnic, and I’m taking peas.” The next student says: “I’m going on a picnic. I’m taking peas and fleas.” Students continue to add to the picnic by creating rhyming words.

Take One Thing From the Box: Have a box filled with different objects. Students must reach in and grab an object. They would name the object and count how many syllables it has.

Sound Analysis: Teacher states a word and asks students to remove or add sounds. For example: The word is hear. If I take away the /h/, what is left? ear. I have an. If I add /m/ to the beginning, what do I have? man.

Counting phonemes: How many sounds do you hear in each? (2)

Chaining phonemes using Tokens: Making only one change at a time, have students use tokens to represent sounds. For example: The teacher would ask students to choose a token to represent /b/. Now show me /b/, /t/. Show me /b/ /a/ /t/. Etc.

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Mo Willems Lunch Lessons
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/

Extra School Work From Scholastic:
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

Free Books from Reading A-Z
https://accounts.learninga-z.com/accountsweb/marketing/trial.do?campaign=rkCOVID19Trial&utm_term=Raz-Kids&utm_campaign=Virtual%20support%20for%20learning%20during%20the%20Coronavirus%20outbreak&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email&cm_mmc=Act-On%20Software-_-email-_-Virtual%20support%20for%20learning%20during%20the%20Coronavirus%20outbreak-_-Raz-Kids

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Author and Illustrator Mo Willems has been awarded the American Library Association’s Caldecott Honor three times for his picture book illustration. Additionally, he is the recipient of two Theodor Geisel Medals and five Geisel Honors for his Elephant & Piggie early readers. Mo began his career as a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he garnered six Emmy Awards. His work has been exhibited around the world, including solo retrospectives at the High Museum in Atlanta and the New-York Historical Society. Over the last decade, Mo has written three musical theater works based on his books, two of which were commissioned and toured by the Kennedy Center.

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Hello Everyone,
I miss each and everyone of you and I hope you are safe. I will be checking in every once in a while. I will be posting fun websites and stories.

Below are some fun online websites:
www.autodraw.com
www.worldbookonline.com/kids
www.storybookonline.net

Here is a video of Miss Ramirez Reading:
https://youtu.be/aT3uzW4dXkA

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Miss Ramirez reads Stormy Night by Salina Yoon.

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Thank you! We miss you!

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Thank you! We miss you!

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I miss you Ms. B and Ms. M! - Angela