Let’s Learn From Home!
Accessing
the CPS Portal and Google Drive
- Go to http://www.cpsk12.org and go to the CPS Staff & Student Portal Login.
- The student's username is 30 followed by their initials and then a number. (example: 30ksr08). If students are unsure, just ask them for their 30 number or what they use as their computer login. Their password is CPS followed by their lunch number (example: CPS180085).
- If they want to access Google drive, their username is their username followed by @stu.cpsk12.org and their password is the same as their password for the portal.
- Students are encouraged to read each day whether in a book, magazine or online.
- Students can access books through Epic through the RBE Website (http://www.cpsk12.org/rbe) in the Media Center section.
- Moss class code is naj3036.
- You can sign up to receive the first month of Epic at home for free by clicking on your student’s name (after entering the class code) and then clicking “I’m a grown up” to sign up. Using this method will require you to provide a credit card, but if you email us, we can go through the teacher login and send a link to you to get the free subscription without the credit card needed.
- There are also online reading options through the CPS Portal through Capstone and also through McGraw-Hill (Wonders).
- Parents may set up a free (until the end of the school year) account at Reading A-Z. This has leveled resources students can use.
- After students have read, they can write one sentence about what they read each day. It can be a connection, summary, something that stood out, tell about the characters, setting, problem, solution or anything else about what they read.
- They can type their responses in Google Drive or can write them down using this paper.
- Students can access ST Math and Everyday Math games through the Portal.
- Students can practice geometry vocab cards.
- Students can complete the packet of pages from their math journal. They were sent home and can be found here.
- Here is a number grid if students want to use it.
- Students are encouraged to write each day.
- They can write a fiction story or a nonfiction piece of writing.
- They can write as many stories as they would like. They can use the Fundations paper provided or found here or they can type their stories on Google Drive.
- Many nursing homes have been closed to visitors to help with the safety and health of the patients. Students could write letters or cards and send them to local nursing homes to bring a smile to someone’s face.
- Mystery Science has mini-lessons with activities and videos the students can watch.
- In the packet that is coming home, there are the pages needed to complete the activities. They are also linked here.
- Scholastic has resources here for both science and social studies activities (www.scholastic.com/learnathome)
- Here are a few STEM activities your family can do!
- Students can access PebbleGo through the Portal. They can choose any topic under Social Studies.
- To access PebbleGo, students need to go to the Portal, click on Electronic Library, then Electronic Library within the folder, this will take you to a link with Elementary resources (might need to click on the left side) and PebbleGo is available here.
- They can read/listen to the information about their topic. Then use the information they learned to create a Google Slides presentation.
- They need to remember to put the information in their own words. They can add pictures if they would like.
- Students can complete as many Google Slide presentations as they would like.
- Students can practice spelling words using the spelling patterns we have learned in Units 9, 10, 11 and 12.
- You can use the packet provided or the pages here and have students practice spelling the words. If there are spelling options, they can use the spelling options section of their Monster book which was sent home or is found here.
- You can use the review words, current words and sentences.
- Learn about animals at the San Diego Zoo
- Learn about the different parts of Yellowstone
- Explore different types of farms
- Travel all the way to Paris and tour The Louvre
- Travel to China to see the Great Wall of China
- Explore all 3 floors of the Boston Children’s Museum
- Some fun STEM activities
- Fun activities with Mo Willems
- Fun science activities and videos
- Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture Weekly Contest
- Your child can enter a contest for an opportunity to win $100!
- This week’s theme: Veggies on your Plate.
- Their entry can be a poem, video, photograph, or drawing/painting
- Check out their website for more information: https://columbiaurbanag.org/
- Book Creator is allowing students to make 40 free books!
- We use this app earlier this school year to make an eBook.
- Mrs. McKinzie has created a RBE READS Facebook group.
- All you have to do is find the group (RBE READS) and click join.
- Here are different brain break activities
- Mrs. Ross: kross@cpsk12.org
- Ms. Mottaz: elmottaz@cpsk12.org
Reading
Math
Writing
Science
Social
Studies
Other
Fun Online Activities
Any
projects they do using Google Drive can be shared with their teacher using the
blue Share button and then enter our email address.
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