Welcome everyone!!

We don’t start for ten more minutes but we are chatting now to just learn about what questions are on people’s minds.

It looks like Terri Roth needs help unmuting

I can't hear...

What online learning options are you exploring?

What questions do you have tonight?

Welcome to our new friends from Austraiia!

zoom and facebook live is what my school so far is relying on. each teacher posts on our online communication of remini and we have been posting activities/ having live book reads and posing questions to the parents/ kids pertaining to the letter

any idea why my volume isn't working?

Zoom, book creator, nearpod, google sites

we are using videos that teachers make, sending pdf packets and reading books - zoom circle time starts Monday. 4-5 year olds

parents are relying on online education like abc mouse

we are doing what we can I feel like

so I work with 3yr olds. I do not have materials at home to work with. Help!

like a zoom circle time with every kid in our class

Generally, how long have people been in social distancing/virtual learning mode?

We are coming up on the end of the first week of "social distancing"

I put on a sweater for this session!

there is a raise hand option in the participant button

hi we haven’t closed yet in Australia

Knock knock

Also- be sure to have it on gallery view :) its nice to see everyone

Who’s there?

elinor Rifkin tell Josh I say hello!

I run two Jewish day care centres in Melbourne we have children from 1 years to five

or Hollywood squares

hi guys! sorry I can't hear you guys but I'm trying

did we get the newer to the knock knock joke?

Charlotte Jewish Preschool is nicely represented in this group!!! Hi CJP teachers!!!!! <3

Anna can you please put the number in the text cause you phased out.

Call Jenna for tech support: 847.971.0406

Or text her

Is there a trick to getting audio ? My speakers work fine

Call Jenna for tech support: 847.971.0406
Or text her

also if you are on a phone you can go to single few and whoever speaks shows up so you know who is talking

go to the bottom left and take yourself off mute!

Welcome, everyone! We are so happy you are here!!!

Hello from Australia! on here to gain information and advice on what to do when we move to remote learning. Currently in Australia we are still attending school and Day cares.

Tip: Press SPEAKER VIEW at the top of the screen if you wish to see the face of the person speaking

WE have been closed for 3 weeks already! been zooming for 2 1/2

Alana we are with you in this!

Go Sasha! My colleague!

hi Jenna and Kristi!!!

Prescillia did you get in?

Hi Geula!

how long is the webinar?

I have some co-teachers that want to get it but the room is maxed out

will this be recorded for those of us that cant hear?

We are working on opening up more room beyond the current 100-person capacity in this call…Stay tuned.

Amazing Ellen!

If not, we are recording.

Hi Goldsmith ECC Teachers!!! missing you all!

Two goals: content and connection.

Hi Beth El Pikesville!!!

hey Katie!!!!!

This webinar will be up to 90 minutes long.

ok thank you

Good evening Beth El Pikesville Family.....

Jackie Modell JCC Park Heights Baltimore, Maryland

hi Kathy!!!

Hi everyone! This is Abby Aloni from the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School in Chicago.

Ellen is this being recorded???

Hi Abby!

Hi Karen Cohen!

Hi from JCC Chicago Early Childhood at Am Shalom in Glencoe, Illinois!

Hi Karen Cohen!!

Yes we are recording and will share after

Great...I have another zoom to jump to...go figure.

Hi from Fern Katz from Chicago Sinai Preschool and ECE-RJ

I hear a lot of static do all of you??

are you sharing this doc?

I have no idea? No idea of what I am really doing haha

It wasn't sounding like this until she showed us her schedule

No static. Did you mute yourself?

can you explain how you do a "breakout" on zoom

are breakout rooms randomly selected or can you choose who goes into each breakout room?

No I am muted.

Alana, how do your teachers manage their own children/family needs for this length of time each day on Zoom?

who creates the challenges? how do you compile the ideas?

You can do both ways

is this being recorded so others can learn

you can create breakout rooms manually or randomly

You can choose who is in each breakout room

You can do either way with breakout rooms. Can divide randomly or you can select who goes to which one

This is Maya from BJE in Wilmette Illinois

Jenna is that you talking to me Jackie??

do we think it's appropriate for ec kids to be on screens all day? this schedule confuses me

How did your teeachers manage to do this with small children of their own at home?

I have been individually calling/ videoing my students to check in with them

how are kids notified about the check in?

agree one on one w teachers so important

same question as Jamie. hi Jamie!

we are using WhatsApp groups

who leads the break out sessions?

yes Jackie- text me or call me at 847-971-0406

if you need help

anyone else hear using WhatsApp groups?

*here

controlling the attendance is hard though. some parents are doing their own thing and not

How old are the children you’re working with? I teach 2-3 year olds

could you share a list of some of the Challenges?

To communicate with the children and families, we us DoJo.

are you able to explain how you do a breakout session

Yes this call is being recorded and you can share it after

Have you had pushback from parents who can’t manage this while also needing to do their own work while at home?

Not my favorite. Zoom and youtube might be good. What about a closed FB group?

i teach at alana's school if anyone has any questions too

were there any struggles getting all parents on board with balance of doing their own thing during this time?

they can contact me

Can you share the challenge ideas?

I do Tefillah on fb live- lots of music and dancing. does that also count as not screen time ?? :)

can you also discuss how we use with infant families

Do you find Zoom to be a distraction given the children’s age versus creating videos and sharing with families content/curriculum?

BookCreator.com

Can families print the book in their own homes? I love it!

Love the book idea

can you repeat the website to make the book

I love this idea

bookcreator.com

BookCreator.com

thank you

what website is that? for the classrooms?

The websites for each class: are they on your server?

Are teachers meeting to discuss the plan?

To make books, BookCreator.com

agelnick@saracademy.org Alana Gelnick, our presenter

thank you!

yes the teachers meet to discuss the content of movies and zooms

can you explain how you do breakout sessions

aside from the google site, do you use apps like Tadpoles, etc?

can you talk about the parents and how they feel? how did you get everyone on bored considering parents are trying to balance their time home as well

did your teachers find it challenging to get everyone availble at the same time? I understand that it would be smaller groups and once a week right? Would you do it even if not all kids who particiapte at a time when maybe most could?

the host of a zoom has an option to st up breakout sessions from the initial account set up when you first sign up

thank you

what about families with children in multiple age groups?

Can you send the link to get on this site from SAR?

can we access the sar website

Are the breakout, co-hosting, etc options also available on the free account?

the problem with free account is that it will cut off at a certain time

What an amazingly supportive, positive, innovative field of professionals—wow!! Such great stories from everyone!

not true. they have made basic unlimited time now

They extended the time on my free account today.

they have taken the 40min limit now to support educators

Thank you!

but you cannot record on the basic

Thank you Alana

and you get a new link every time you make a new session

zoom is great

How do we get access to the SAR website?

You can record, it saves it on to your computer at the end of the call

https://sites.google.com/saracademy.org/familyresources/home?authuser=0

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-zooms-interactive-tools-introduction-tickets-100326427044

Thanks for the 411, Davida!

thank you 😊

thank you!

And we are in week 3!!! It did not look like this in week 1!

there is only a wait list

Daily Schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xx_oUOBEpFusrkFhvCtQ-UEJk080sAM-bDaqKWFBloc/edit

Video: Synchronous and Asynchronous

Yes kids do love that repetition!

And I love the connection and community aspects of school through zoom!

Haha love that.

Has anyone done Hebrew Through Movement on Zoom?

Those who are using ZOOM, on average how long are you spending with the class/kids?

Hi Stephanie i spend between 15-30 min depending what there needs are. some really need the connection

And...some families are quarantine and can only use items they already have

can you put the schedule again?

our sessions are 15 Mns

I can not hear you talking

Thank you all for the response

how do you set up the 1:1?

YES I'm hearing that too. The vulnerable aspect.

I use calendly to allow parents to schedule one on ones with me.

I'd love to hear the groups thoughts about fb live

thank you:)

I use it for Tefillah for 50+

I used FB live.

I also think doing the 1:1 on zoom can help a child get more comfortable for that platform when it's in a group

I did our morning minyan outside of my house

We're going to make challah dough on FB live tomorrow morning with our kiddos!

That sounds lovely Stephanie!

you can access it live?? I know you can after.

we did cooking demonstrations on fb live

do you think that every teacher should have their own zoom account versus just one as a school?

Our Cantor is hosting a Kabbalat Shabbat tomorrow for the entire preschool

depends on size on the school

there are 4 classes

we are using two pro accounts and making it work with staggered zoom times

we are doing Challah with the children tomorrow and making Matzo Ball soup next week

Ha!

Thank you, Davida!

Are you hearing any parents expressing a feeling of schedule overload?

love that!

maybe you can ask parents to email you what will be for dinner and then you can acknowledge answers accurately. “Benji had pasta for dinner!”, etc

Great idea Leah

do you notice sometimes zoom is wonky?lagging? slow? delayeD?

yes. very annoying

This is our general schedule. Just started yesterday. We are writing in what we plan to do with the children during each slot so they can do it on their own if they can't make it on the Zoom call. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P44eeSgecdOI1QjdrvjId8moRTCkHSDjLuSp7IPC7Tg/edit

we offer parents to pick and choose activities. Depending on their family schedule. But for now they appreciate the flexibility.

we had show and tell today. We told them to bring something special and then they each got a chance to share it with the group

Hi Kristi!

I'm going to use that method for our all school Shabbat tomorrow! Thank you

Welcome back to 1998! Ethernet!

what did she mention?

my coteacher and I noticed that one of the children that are usually quiet at school were very vocal during our zoom session

hey to all I know on here 😀💜

You will need an Ethernet Chord and Ethernet USB Adapter

For music educators this has been really challenging. Zoom doesn't work well for that. But if you use a USB Mic they say it works better. Better sound quality too.

At least it is not "dial in"

Lucky that my hubby has a ton of parts

@Fern, HA!

Ellen, will you share your “activities with Ellen” with us so we can see what you are doing?

how old?

https://www.pinterest.com/jewishedprojectecfe/

Show and share, Ellen!

Ah, ok—mush.

Ellen where are you when you are taping this?

It's like dog years!

does each teacher have their own zoom account? or can you have more then one teachers on at a time?

The children are adorable!

Zoom accounts are free if your meeting is under 40 min

zoom basic accounts are now unlimited

One Zoom account for multiple users. This way we can help teachers manage this.

Sometimes they extend a call to unlimited, but not always- got kicked off a couple times today...

another option is WebEx for video conference. Its free

Modeling how to play

can you explain the present activity again? I didn’t understand

So one account can have multiple users/teachers? Can they teach at the same time w the free account?

Modeling.

A 43-minute experience!

tape activity idea that is pesach themed?

We’re planning on having all our teachers (9 teachers) start teaching at the same time, but I wasn’t sure if we could do that…

Ellen are you experimenting yet with revisiting previous content

These are great ideas. Not stupid

love the present idea!

TELL US THE JOKES!!!

Phonemic awareness goes digital!

or Romper Room

Ha!

love all of these ideas. thanks so much for sharing

I have done a shape scavenger hunt. Each day we have done a different shape that they need to find around their house and then bring some of those items to share with the group. It can be related to Passover with the shapes/symbols of Pesach

Now we can say for sure that watching Mr Rogers is excellent PD.

We’ve have a ton of fabulous response with mystery readers

Starting a Passover Scavenger Hunt for our PS

thank you Anna!

Ellen - do you also have these activities in writing and sent to parents too?

say the names of the shapes in Hebrew!!

@courtney Plager- what is the mystery reader?

How many activities are you providing for kids/day?? Sorry- not sure if one of the scared schedules was from you or not. I just an feeling so conflicted. One a day? schedule for the whole day??

I will share!

my class did a nature walk. we asked the children to put a piece of tape on their wrist and collect leaves, flowers etc. parents sent us videos of their children on the walk and added what they found( we were learning my the letter n before this all went down) some children were excited to find a nest. it was great!

100% - so many are jumping in. Very courageous

will you post the doc on the FB page?

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo

Yes, we will share whatever we have after the call!

none of us are comfortable and we are doing it anyway. You have to have courage.

by the way- don't forget to have fun and stay connected with your staff!! we are having a staff happy hour via zoom at 8:30

We had our first Zoom meeting last night - it was great for everyone to connect--

wow!

What a great use of Facebook live!

Mara - 8:30 am or pm?

https://www.jewishedproject.org/news/jewish-early-childhood-centers-expand-meaning-school-home-connections?fbclid=IwAR3Mi2e_1uVnpn_ROT3qRlE4en9phWmRjB1Osg6oA8AS5lexlrljVl3aFK0

happy hour? pm :)

Different modalities for different goals

everyone is welcome to check out my tefillot- they are on my FB page- Mara Kleiman

This has been FABULOUS!! Thank you for inviting us! For those of you who are my age….”Come on and Zoom, Zoom, Zooma, Zoom!! Come on and Zooma Zooma Zooma Zoom! Come on give it a try! We’re gonna tell ya why!”

have you experienced challenges with parents with live?

Is that a Zoom show song reference??? Totally love that. But dating myself.

thank you ellen and everyone so much!!

Does any have a list or can we collaborate on a list of the

online resources?

Are we setting up a google doc too?

Yes there was a show in the 70s called Zoom…I loved it!

brown bag w eye cutouts!! hilarious!

Same with me Abby. Loved it!

We have some former teachers who have moved away who are going to be guest/mystery reader and inviting former students.

Abby- 70s!! Also in the 2000s- on PBS :)

we did mystery reader today and my children loved it.

is there a way that all the links can be posted or emailed out.

I'll also be doing Hebrew Letter Yoga on fb live- have you guys seen Rhythm and Ruach at home's fb page? It's GREAT for EC kids

I do it with my toddlers

We have a few classrooms that are doing this on FB!

curious what people are doing with teachers being sick

Courtney-does the mystery reader then reveal themselves at the end of the video?

not everyone is on facebook, any other options for posting this info?

Paradigm Project Hub on Facebook

Paradigm Project Hub: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParadigmProjectHub/

Teachers really need to stay connected at this time!

if not on facebook- reach out to jenna@jparadigm.org

Quarantini Anna said I think

Ellen- Thank you!

thank you!!

Thank you ALL so much!

amazing!!!

see you there!!

Thank you so much- lots of great ideas!

Sasha what website was that webinar

@ayelet- yes. They read the entire book- then say “ do you have any guesses? And make it interacted. Then reveal

Go Jewish ECE!!!!!!

Thank you to everyone!

❤️

Thank you!

Shabbat Shalom!

thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

TELL ANOTHER JOKE

BEVAKASHA

Amazing, thanks

😂

Thank you!