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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]930-arrival
945-1015-morning meeting  
1015-12:00 actual time for learning
12-130 (lunch and recess)

so less than two hours a day for academics for two whole weeks of summer school, and they are wasting 30 minutes of it mindlessly clicking on JiiJii?[/quote]

I’m subbing for summer school tomorrow so we’ll see, but the student hours at this school are 8:55-12:55. [b]Lunch is 30 minutes and recess is 20[/b], not an hour and a half.
Doesn’t FCPS provide summer curriculum?[/quote]

Regardless, that's still less than three hours of time for academics. 8:55-9:30 would be arrival/morning meeting, 9:30-noon actual school, then lunch and recess. So 2.5 hours of learning, of which 30 is spent doing nothing on a laptop. Seems like a huge chunk of time to me. [/quote]

I’ll let you know, but I’m pretty sure 12:55 is the start time after arrival. I don’t know how much time will be spent on laptops, but again I’ll report back tomorrow. [/quote]

I’m back. I covered a rising first grade class. The students didn’t use laptops. I didn’t even see any. Recess and lunch were each 20 minutes long. We started with a morning meeting that did not take very long. There was a phonics/spelling lesson, a read aloud with a lesson tied into seasons, the math coach came in and did a lesson and then the students worked in pairs practicing what the coach introduced. Those who finished early had independent math work to do and an IA went around doing some 1:1 check in assessments. It was obvious to me that there would normally be some reading small group work if the regular teacher was there. [/quote]

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