VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS & LIVE ZOO CAMS

These sites have great virtual field trips and live zoo cams of different animals.

Remember to be patient with the zoo cams, these are LIVE camera feeds of these animals, you might have to check in on them a few different times of the day to find them moving around.

Star Atlas (Entering your “location” lets you see the constellations above YOU!)

Access Mars (Yes you can “go” to Mars! Don’t skip the intro)

Virtual Trip to Ellis Island (Home of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor)

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Don’t miss “Bone Hall” on the second floor)

San Diego Zoo (They have 11 live cams! Pandas, penguins, apes, giraffes, tigers, etc)

Georgia Aquarium’s Ocean Voyager webcam (They have 5 different webcams to view)

The “Jelly cam” at Monterey Bay Aquarium (so soothing!)

Seattle’s Aquarium (a 30-minute video tour with a diver)

Virtual Egg Farm Field Trip (several different videos on this page)

Farm Fresh 360 (360 virtual field trips from raising pigs to making milk)

DOWNS' DRAGONS ROCK!

WELCOME TO OUR DOWNS' DRAGONS 3rd GRADE WEBPAGE

Please check back often to see new updates and information.

(Last updated: 4/3/2020)

As mandated, our school will be closed through the remainder of the school year. Although this is heartbreaking, know that I will do everything in my power to keep the kids connected as a group through this new and ever changing time! Please join our ZOOM meetings when we have them. The students love to see each other and I love to see them!

I will notify parents in advance when our class will hold a ZOOM meeting, and will vary the dates and time we hold the meetings to allow for as many students to participate as possible.

After we return from Spring Break we will begin Distance Learning as of Tuesday, April 14th. As a school we are still trying to figure out what that looks like for each grade level and each class. Please be patient with me as I learn how to use online resources to tech- its new territory for me.

*** We will be using our Google Classroom as our "hub" for Distance Learning.

*** Information with our Google Class code and the student usernames /passwords will be coming to you via REMIND once I'm ready to roll that out.

> > > URGENT: If your student does not have a device to work from, contact Mr. Brown at the school office 530-253-3551 to make arrangements to borrow a Chromebook from school. < < <

Please note that the work packets that were sent home when school was temporarily closed will not be collected or graded. These were supplemental work to keep the students engaged and they will not be held accountable if they were not done. HOWEVER, after we begin Distance Learning on April 14th, grades will be mandatory for student work. Please know that we understand the challenges of having to teach your own child. My promise to you is that we will start slowly and with review work before moving into longer work periods or new information.

> > > UPDATE: YOU CAN NOW ORDER SCHOLASTIC BOOKS AND HAVE THEM SENT DIRECTLY TO YOUR HOUSE! < < <

Please click on the icon below and use our class code: NG4DR

At this time I do not plan to use the sites below for lessons, however these are good tools for reviewing skills. Students may use these at their convenience, or at your direction, but these sites below are not required to be used. These sites are given to you as enrichment resources should you need them.

Thank you for your support during the school year and most especially during this ever changing time.

If you have any questions, please contact me on REMIND, phone me, text me, or email me at sdowns@janesvilleschool.org .

Please give me time to respond, I have a lot of new things on my plate. If I have not responded after 24 hours, please reach out to me again.

Remember Downs' Dragons Never give up! We keep trying no matter how hard the situation may seem. We make hard look easy, because we never give up!

STAY SAFE---STAY HEALTHY---STAY AWESOME!

-Mrs. Downs

ENRICHMENT RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS

(These first 4 sites require the student's username and pw)