Dear Parents,
We know what a difficult time this is for you and your families. It is disruptive for your children as well as for yourselves. As a Nursery School, we are working closely with our teachers as we become familiar with new technology and the best ways to connect with our families. We had an all-school staff meeting using Zoom yesterday and a full training through Zoom today for our faculty. The reason why we are using Zoom is to remain a classroom community, they can see our whole group of children. We found that we can even mute our meetings so that the teachers can speak and allow the children to listen and then unmute the children one at a time for successful morning meetings.
So how do we socialize for the next couple of weeks, or maybe longer?
Beginning tomorrow, each class will have a classroom meeting allowing for socialization amongst our beautiful lively children. You may see our teachers' children, pets and significant others and you will get to know our teachers in new ways with the new social technology. We know that it is also great to have one on one Facetime with your teachers too, which you will continue to have.
We are beginning to share videos among our staff from our Early Childhood Faculty. This is a way to meet other teachers on our staff. We have one teacher that performed a puppet show with her children, another reading a book, another talking about her shabbat table, another riding in an elevator while another teacher sings a good morning song. Please go to our website at www.wbtecc.org/at-home to check it out.
Our incredible yoga teachers are online teaching classes and we know that your children will enjoy exercising and relaxation techniques with Cheryl of Rock Zen Roll Yoga at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6WpXl375QtMrvkzmPAcyJA
Teachers have been posing questions pertaining to their long term investigations and we so appreciate the videos that parents have sent with their children's theories! Parents,
Thank you for joining us on our virtual journey and thank you for being so patient with us.
We are thrilled that you are part of our community.
Your teachers will be sending links to your zoom meetings, which will be what you use daily to access group times. These meetings will also be recorded as we know things come up and you may miss it with your children. If you are using a computer, you will be asked to do a quick download the first time you join a zoom meeting. If you are using an iPhone or iPad, you will need to download the app ZOOM Cloud Meetings.
The following is a flexible schedule for zoom. We know that we have siblings and did our best to find a suitable schedule.
Schedule
9:40 Nitzanim/Lavan/Keshet
11:05 Kachol/Shemesh/TK
11:30 Glazer DK and DK Alef
1:00PM DK BET
Facebook Link for Torah Talk with Rabbi Eshel @ 9:00AM Wednesday mornings and Shabbat Story @ 9:00AM on Friday mornings With Rabbi Joel Nickerson: https://www.facebook.com/wbtecc
Join Jason Mesches for music power hours every day from 10:00AM to 11:00AM:
https://www.youtube.com/c/jasonmeschesmusic
https://www.facebook.com/jasonmeschesmusic
Join our yoga instructor Cheryl for some body movement and zen time: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6WpXl375QtMrvkzmPAcyJA