•  HELP FOR FAMILIES WITH SEESAW

    SeeSaw for Families  

    Seesaw is a platform for student engagement that inspires students of all ages to do their best. Students use creative tools to take pictures, draw, record videos and more to capture learning in a portfolio. Teachers find or create activities to share with students and families.

    Parents can participate in their child's classroom through SeeSaw. Below is a link to a video with information for parents:

     

    SeeSaw Guide for Parents

  •  Science at Home!

    THE WILD CENTER:

    The Wild Center

     

    Visit this site for fun and educational science activities in such topics around Earth Day such as sustainability, composting and nature journaling as well as insects, the solar system and animals. Visit the The Wild Center

     

    EARTH DAY FUN!

     Earth Day Text

    This site will take you to tours and activities at The American Museum of Natural History, The Staten Island Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York: Earth Day Virtual Tours and Activities

     

    RMSC OFFERS ONLINE SCIENCE LEARNING!

    RMSC

    Demos, Experiments and Planetarium Shows: RMSC Online Learning

  •  ADVISE FOR PARENTS ON ALL THINGS DIGITAL

    Common Sense Media

    Dansville CSD has relied on Common Sense Media for excellent Digital Citizenship curriculum.  Common Sense Media offers teachers and parents advice and resources for all things digital and technology. It is chock full of advise, tips, and reviews of apps, movies, and websites to help parents and families in navigating the digital world. 

    Common Sense Media (CSM) is a non-profit organization that "provides education and advocacy to families to promote safe technology and media for children." ... Common Sense Media has also developed a set of ratings that are intended to gauge the educational value of videos, games, and apps

    Below is a link, click on the For Parents section at the top:

    Common Sense Media - For Parents

  •  HELP FOR FAMILIES WITH ACCESSING AND USING RAZ KIDS

    RAZ Kids for Parents

    RAZ Online Resources for Teachers  and Parents. RAZ Plus Delivers a Personalized Blended Learning Approach to Literacy. Leveled Books and Other Resources in Printable, Projectable, and Digital Formats. Students develop reading skills most efficiently when instruction, practice, and assessment are blended and informed by data.

    RAZ Resources for Parents - Guidance for Parents in getting their children on RAZ at home: RAZ Guide for Parents

  •  GUIDE FOR PARENTS OF HS STUDENTS USING CASTLE LEARNING

     Castle Learning For Parents

    Castle Learning offers a comprehensive instructional support platform for in class, homework, review, and testing available both online and offline. Castle Learning can be accessed through single sign on with Clever. Students log in to Clever, login is students’ school email address, password is their lunch number. Clever is an app that brings all DCS education applications into one secure portal with single sign-on for everyone in the school district.

    Castle Learning Guide for Parents

  • HELP FOR FAMILIES WITH CLASSROOMS USING NEW NEWSELA PRO

    Newsela

    The Dansville School District has started using Newela to help with distance learning.  If your students' teachers have begun using Newsela, the resource below may be helpful for you:

    Newsela Overview for Caregivers - If you're a caregiver whose child is using Newsela for the first time, take a look at this video to learn more about what it is and how it works!

    Student Use of Newsela - This document will guide students (and parents / families) in signing on and using Newsela

     

     

     

  •  HELP FOR FAMILIES IN USING KAMI - PDF EDITING TOOL

     Kami For Parents

     KAMI - Your Digital Classroom Hero Kami is a leading digital classroom app for Chrome. It allows you to take any existing document, including scanned PDFs, and write, draw, type, annotate, comment, augment, enhance, and otherwise bring it to life – all within your browser. The district has Kami enabled on all computers and Chromebooks.

    Kami Getting Started Guide for Parents

    Short Getting Started with Kami

    Student Use of Kami Help

     

  •  PARENT GUIDE FOR USING KHAN ACADEMY

    LEARNING CURRICULUM K-12

     

    Khan Academy for Parents

    Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Salman Khan with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators

     This link offers schedules with suggested curricular paths PK-12 and links: Khan Academy Getting Started Schedules and Curriculum Links

     Khan Academy Guide for Parents

  •  HELP FOR FAMILIES IN READING RESOURCES DANSVILLE CLASSROOMS USE

    iReady Reading Apps for Parents

    iReady is offering extra support to families and teachers including learning activity packs, guidance and professional learning: iReady Online Learning Resources

    → Log in t's a one-stop shop for deep, well-organized, CCSS data collection and differentiated instruction in math and literacy. Students log in 

    through Clever, login is students’ school email address, password is their lunch number. Clever is an app that brings all DCS education applications into one secure portal with single sign-on for everyone in the school district. Clever Learn at Home Resources

    Clever Log in Instructions

    Clever Learning Academy

    Clever Reading Apps for Parents

  • HELP FOR FAMILIES IN MATH APPS DANSVILLE CLASSROOMS USE

    iReady Math apps for Parents

    iReady is offering extra support to families and teachers including learning activity packs, guidance and professional learning: iReady Online Learning Resources

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    Log in t's a one-stop shop for deep, well-organized, CCSS data collection and differentiated instruction in math and literacy. Students log in through Clever, login is students’ school email address, password is their lunch number. Clever is an app that brings all DCS education applications into one secure portal with single sign-on for everyone in the school district.

    Clever Math Apps for Parents

     

    Prodigy Math Apps for Parents

    Prodigy is a free, Pokemon-style math game that has been proven to improve student scores and confidence! It is aligned to the Ontario curriculum for grades 1-6, and features content from each of the five major strands. ... To create deep engagement so students double their math practice time at home.

    Parents Guide to Prodigy

     

    Starfall Math apps for Parents  

    Starfall offers a free public service to teach children to read. ... It is widely used in schools that serve children with special needs and learning difficulties. Our low-cost membership program expands the free content to include animated songs, mathematics, and reading activities spanning K-3. Dansville has a paid subscription to Starfall.  Email your teacher or the school librarian if you do not have a user name or password

     

    Starfall Parent Guide