Anonymous
04/28/2020 17:00
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
1hr in the am.
1hour in the pm.
Independent work and office hours available also.
All teachers doing live lessons with combo of teacher created materials and fcps produced slides.
Lots of google classroom work. Teachers have called to check in on kids and emailed frequently.
Region 2
1hour in the pm.
Independent work and office hours available also.
All teachers doing live lessons with combo of teacher created materials and fcps produced slides.
Lots of google classroom work. Teachers have called to check in on kids and emailed frequently.
Region 2
Anonymous
04/28/2020 16:52
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
We are 1 hour a day Mon-Thurs for the whole entire 4th grade in one group (not just our class). In the hour they are suppose to learn math, language arts and science/social studies. The majority of the time they are just telling the kids what the homework will be. The homework is links to youtube videos of other teachers in other parts of the US teaching the lesson and doing a great job. Teacher has not recorded any of her own videos nor has the team. My kid is off by 10am each day and finishes assigned homework (which is only online and nothing in packet or offline) by 10:30 in all 3 subjects.
Anonymous
04/28/2020 16:39
Subject: Re:If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
Genuine question - why are people hesitant to post the name of their kid's school?
Anonymous
04/28/2020 15:17
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
No matter how much FCPS lowers the bar, there's always a school willing to not meet it.
Anonymous
04/28/2020 15:04
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
i thought they waited so long to start anything because they wanted to have a standard schedule for ES, MS and HS...now ES's are just doing however little or much as they want?
Anonymous
04/28/2020 14:39
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:kindergarten - not a super $$$ fcps, but not title 1.
total of 4.5 hours a week - - one class hour daily m-th, with one 30 minute small group for reading/writing once a week.
Its working very well for us given age/attention span. We do the class, then the packet. No complaints for this age.
Me again - forgot to add the teachers have put up phonics videos and writing videos they have created, so that adds in another 10 min a day of insruction. The videos are very good - and we reuse them as needed.
Anonymous
04/28/2020 14:37
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
kindergarten - not a super $$$ fcps, but not title 1.
total of 4.5 hours a week - - one class hour daily m-th, with one 30 minute small group for reading/writing once a week.
Its working very well for us given age/attention span. We do the class, then the packet. No complaints for this age.
total of 4.5 hours a week - - one class hour daily m-th, with one 30 minute small group for reading/writing once a week.
Its working very well for us given age/attention span. We do the class, then the packet. No complaints for this age.
Anonymous
04/28/2020 14:34
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:We just got our schedule (no teaching has started yet-they are starting tomorrow) and it is bad so at least I can complain here and not on fb where i will be judged as hating teachers.
2nd and 3rd graders are each getting two days a week for 60 minutes, so two hours total, each. Office hours if you make an apointment ahead of time. Still waiting to hear from 6th grade teacher. The younger two have very little content on their google classrooms.
No specials or small groups. We waited seven weeks for this!
School is not title 1 but maybe 30-40% Farms, and an AAP center. Seems like they have just decided the school year is over.
yeah, that's bad.
Anonymous
04/28/2020 14:32
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Title 1 school - 1st grade
Mon Thurs - 30 minutes live each day. There is an Optional 1 hour office hours where the teacher is live, I'm not quite sure what to do with that and it's at lunch time for us, so I really haven't pursued having her logon. The live is Morning Meeting, story time and today they did an activity.
There are also daily prerecorded lessons for Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies. They are usually independent activities attached. My child tends to have a hard time paying attention to these. She has had attention issues prior but the teachers and pediatrician don't think it warranted testing but that was back in February. We use Blackboard Ultra for the Live and the prerecorded stuff is on Blackboard Learn and now Google classroom as a backup. Nothing is being turned in. No provision to do it.
NP. This is my 1st grader's schedule also. My 1st grader also has a hard time paying attention to the pre-recorded videos. I'm not concerned about it now. If we have online school this fall, then I'll be more concerned.
My 4th grader has 60 minutes daily of live instruction using Blackboard Collab and assignments on Classroom and office hours and a breakout session once a week.
The two schedules seem reasonable for the different ages. We're at a regular, not-Title 1, not super wealthy ES.
Anonymous
04/28/2020 14:18
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:We just got our schedule (no teaching has started yet-they are starting tomorrow) and it is bad so at least I can complain here and not on fb where i will be judged as hating teachers.
2nd and 3rd graders are each getting two days a week for 60 minutes, so two hours total, each. Office hours if you make an apointment ahead of time. Still waiting to hear from 6th grade teacher. The younger two have very little content on their google classrooms.
No specials or small groups. We waited seven weeks for this!
School is not title 1 but maybe 30-40% Farms, and an AAP center. Seems like they have just decided the school year is over.
We were told by our principal that FCPS was requiring a minimum of one hour synchronous learning on BB ultra or google Mon-Thurs-so a minimum of four hours a week.
Anonymous
04/28/2020 14:17
Subject: Re:If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
Hugolk wrote:
Lord, how tired of distance learning is just some kind of horror. My son spends about 5 hours a day in front of a computer. I just can’t endure how they mock him, but you won’t go outside. It’s good that there’s at least a trampoline in the yard
Thanks for posting this. I need to up my day drinking as well.
Anonymous
04/28/2020 14:16
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
Anonymous wrote:Title 1 school - 1st grade
Mon Thurs - 30 minutes live each day. There is an Optional 1 hour office hours where the teacher is live, I'm not quite sure what to do with that and it's at lunch time for us, so I really haven't pursued having her logon. The live is Morning Meeting, story time and today they did an activity.
There are also daily prerecorded lessons for Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies. They are usually independent activities attached. My child tends to have a hard time paying attention to these. She has had attention issues prior but the teachers and pediatrician don't think it warranted testing but that was back in February. We use Blackboard Ultra for the Live and the prerecorded stuff is on Blackboard Learn and now Google classroom as a backup. Nothing is being turned in. No provision to do it.
Are these created by the teachers or just random youtube videos?
Hugolk
04/28/2020 14:15
Subject: Re:If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
Lord, how tired of distance learning is just some kind of horror. My son spends about 5 hours a day in front of a computer. I just can’t endure how they mock him, but you won’t go outside. It’s good that there’s at least a trampoline in the yard
Anonymous
04/28/2020 14:15
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
We just got our schedule (no teaching has started yet-they are starting tomorrow) and it is bad so at least I can complain here and not on fb where i will be judged as hating teachers.
2nd and 3rd graders are each getting two days a week for 60 minutes, so two hours total, each. Office hours if you make an apointment ahead of time. Still waiting to hear from 6th grade teacher. The younger two have very little content on their google classrooms.
No specials or small groups. We waited seven weeks for this!
School is not title 1 but maybe 30-40% Farms, and an AAP center. Seems like they have just decided the school year is over.
2nd and 3rd graders are each getting two days a week for 60 minutes, so two hours total, each. Office hours if you make an apointment ahead of time. Still waiting to hear from 6th grade teacher. The younger two have very little content on their google classrooms.
No specials or small groups. We waited seven weeks for this!
School is not title 1 but maybe 30-40% Farms, and an AAP center. Seems like they have just decided the school year is over.
Anonymous
04/28/2020 14:12
Subject: If you have an elementary age child in FCPS
4th grade, high SES school - everything is done via Google Classroom and Google Meet:
30 minutes live session in the morning (math)
30 minutes live session in the afternoon (language arts)
Preparatory instructional videos are sent prior to each session. Students have related assignments that must be completed prior to the next session - my child usually has about 3 pages of math and then some sort of writing/grammar assignment.
Challenge assignments and specials are posted in Google Classroom, but they are not mandatory.
30 minutes live session in the morning (math)
30 minutes live session in the afternoon (language arts)
Preparatory instructional videos are sent prior to each session. Students have related assignments that must be completed prior to the next session - my child usually has about 3 pages of math and then some sort of writing/grammar assignment.
Challenge assignments and specials are posted in Google Classroom, but they are not mandatory.