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Virtual School Information Week 1

August 14, 2021

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Hello Students and Families,

It was wonderful meeting you and connecting with you at meet and greet yesterday. Please read the information below carefully. For most 2nd graders, virtual school requires parent involvement. Most kids will become more independent as routines are established, but please know that your child needs your support. Virtual school requires parent time and involvement. Virtual school is not intended to replace in person education and is an emergency measure to continue your child’s education as best as possible until school resumes. We would like to partner with you to help you child learn and grow as much as possible. The information shared below will be helpful in ensuring that your child has a smooth start to virtual school. Please email Mr. Hagen with questions, comments or concerns. edh@isb.ac.th

Schedule

Our Virtual Learning Schedule

Our class schedule is a google document that will be added to each week. Mr. Hagen will share the schedule on Sundays. The newest week will be on top. The document contains the links needed for all zoom sessions. The password for all zooms in the ES at ISB is espanthers

Please bookmark this document on your device and if you know how, please add it as a home screen button on your child’s iPad. We will be reviewing the schedule each morning and teaching your child how to use it.

Family Connection Zooms

The first two weeks of virtual school will serve as an introduction to routines and virtual learning norms. We will start more targeted small group academic instruction week 3. This week, Mr. Hagen has scheduled a conference with each family to get acquainted and discuss your child’s strengths and hopes for this year. Please join Mr. Hagen in his zoom room on the day and time specified on the schedule. If you cannot meet during that day and time, please email Mr. Hagen as soon as possible. edh@isb.ac.th

Please contact Mr. Hagen if you would like a translator at your meeting.

We will assess your child academically towards the end of week 2. We will share more information about this soon.

Seesaw

It’s important to know there are 2 seesaw apps. The seesaw class app is for students and the seesaw family app if for parents. The instructions below are for the student app.

Please follow these steps on how to log your child into Seesaw:

Open the Seesaw Class app or on a browser go to app.seesaw.me
Tap ‘I’m a Student.’
Important: Click continue with Google (do not type in the email yet).

4. Type in your child’s ISB email account and password

Seesaw will need your child to login the first time with their ISB Google email account. Their email will be their ISB student ID followed by @students.isb.ac.th (example 12345@students.isb.ac.th). Their password will be: isb followed by their student ID again (example: isb12345)

Your child’s ISB student ID is labelled on the back of the iPad.

5. For the next pop-ups, click agree and notify me for any notifications.

**Occasionally, Google does a security check, if it requires a mobile number, you may type it in and you’ll get a security code. Google does not store your mobile number.

how to toggle between classes in seesaw – this is a short video showing you how to switch between classes

Dreambox

Dreambox is an adaptive math practice app that ISB uses in elementary school. Your child’s account and progress follows him/her throughout their time at ISB. The app is already installed on your child’s iPad.

Students will need to login the first time using their ISB email/password. This is the same as how your child accessed seesaw for the first time. After that, please access Dreambox using the username and password below.

iPad School Code: ndm2/internationalsb

If your child needs to access math practice on another device, pleas use the school URL: https://play.dreambox.com/login/ndm2/internationalsb

Username: your child’s student number – it’s on the back of his/her iPad

Password: isb followed by your child’s student number. Example) isb123456

Epic Books

Epic Books will be used extensively during virtual school. It’s a large collection of literature that can be access from 7am to 3pm each day. . 7-3 each day is free for your child. Contact Mr. Hagen if you’re interested in paying for a subscription…this means your child can access books outside of the hours.

World Language Class

Please take note of who your child’s teacher is for World Language (WL). Zoom links to WL language teachers are on the class virtual learning schedule.