These past two weeks in Michigan have been snowy and icy to say the least! With closings all last week and an ice day today, teachers have been taking advantage of using technology to reach their students at home to continue learning! Here are a few ways to reach your students and a some ideas to share to parents for those days off!

Communication

Use Class Dojo to communicate with parents when snow days are in affect and to share out ideas of activities for students to do on their days off. With older students, you can also use Schoology or Google Classroom to reach students when school is closed. Lastly, a classroom Facebook page or Twitter can be used to reach families to continue the learning when school is not in session. Just make sure what is okay to have in your districts as some ban Facebook or don’t have student emails for LMS systems or virtual classrooms like Google Classroom.

Ideas

A co-worker of mine @Dolezal_DES on twitter created the Snow/Cold Day Challenges above for her first grade students! Students shared their pictures with her and you can see them on her Twitter, so pay her a visit! You can also use apps such as Flipgrid with students to have students share their work outside of the school day like the Snow Day Challenges for 5th grade students.

Digital Divide

As always, remember, some students may not have access to the Internet and this leads to problems with the digital divide, so the activities are for fun and not mandatory. Hopefully students and parents will be motivated to do a few on students’ days off!

Have other ideas for what students can do on snow days? Share them with me on Twitter @Ms.Marshall_DES, on my Facebook Page @teachstation, on Instagram @Teacher_Station, or in the comments below.

Enjoy,

Emily