Hello Parents/Guardians,

As social media becomes a larger part of where people gather information, we believe that is very important for students to be exposed to how to navigate this world safely. As a part of our Internet Safety study, students have created Internet Safety Blogs. Students will be required to write and post blog entries on all 4 themes of Internet Safety: Passwords and Personal Information, Cyberbullying, Viruses and Money Safety.

Students have the opportunity to share their blogs with staff, families and peers. They will also be practicing how to follow and post positive comments on the blogs of their peers. Both Ms. Bachman and Ms. Ahlgren-McVey will be monitoring student’s blogs and comments – Cyberbullying has been taught and will not be tolerated.

If you would like a link to your students blog (and they have not e-mailed you one already), please feel free to e-mail me at ebachman@lgamn.org and I can share that information with you. Again, this is a great way to get our students involved and working on social interactions on the web.

Thank you,

Ms. Bachman and Ms. Ahlgren-McVey

Hello Middle School Tech/Drama Parents, Starting this Friday (12/16) Middle School Tech/Drama will be held in 80 minute class periods instead of the regular 40 minutes (see schedule below). As you know, Drama classes are creating puppets for their upcoming play so the 80 minute class periods will allow students ample time to finish their puppets and rehearse their plays. This 80 minute period will happen for 2 class periods, and after break – we will be going back to our regular schedule.

Thank you for your understanding.

I am trying a new format for sharing my daily lessons with students & parents. I am using Google Docs to share this information, so instead of posting something weekly – I will be sharing a real-time document that provides up to date information on our daily lessons. Use the link below to check out what we have been up to in tech class.

HERE is the link to see my daily lessons.

Again, I thought I would try something new to get you the most up to date information, but would love feedback from you! Please let me know if this format is confusing or not user friendly. Thank you!

ebachman@lgamn.org