Parent Online Resources
HELP FOR FAMILIES WITH GOOGLE CLASSROOM
Google Classroom is a great tool for sharing articles, assignments with students at home. Parents can click on the link below to learn more about Google Classroom:
Parents Guide to Google Classroom
Guía para Padres: GoogleClassroom
Parent's Guide to Checking Student Assignments on Google Classroom
How to Turn in an Assignment on Google Classroom - This video tutorial shows you how to turn in your completed work in Google Classroom
How to View Feedback on an Assignment on Google Classroom - This video tutorial shows you how to find the work you have submitted, check your grade and view the teacher's feedback
Parents Guide to Managing Parent Summaries
Google Classroom Help for Parents and Students - This website offers a great from basics to advanced for parents and students. Help for Google Classroom Calendar is here too
Parents Access to School Tool
Dansville uses School Tool for grading and attendance.
School Tool Parent Information:
HELP FOR FAMILIES WITH SEESAW
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 Parent's Getting Started Guide
Science at Home!
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!
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!
Demos, Experiments and Planetarium Shows: RMSC Online Learning
HELP FOR FAMILIES WITH ALL THINGS GOOGLE
Helping children be smart, confident explorers of the online world
To teach children to make better decisions online, we’ve created resources endorsed by Connect Safely and the Family Online Safety Institute to help them become smart, savvy, digital citizens.
AT HOME RESOURCES FROM THE PRIMARY SCHOOL READING & MATH SUPPORT TEACHERS
The Primary School Reading Teachers have provided the following resources for families to access:
Having Fund Practicing Letters and Sounds
Math Games with a Deck of Cards
Reading Scavenger Hunt A Print Awareness Activity
ADVISE FOR PARENTS ON ALL THINGS DIGITAL
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 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 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 IN USING KAMI - PDF EDITING TOOL
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
HELP FOR FAMILIES IN READING RESOURCES DANSVILLE CLASSROOMS USE
iReady is offering extra support to families and teachers including learning activity packs, guidance and professional learning: iReady Online Learning Resources
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
Single Sign On for Students in Many DCSD Classroom Apps
Clever Log in InstructioClever Learning Academy
HELP FOR FAMILIES IN MATH APPS DANSVILLE CLASSROOMS USE
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.
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