We’ve made it through our first full distance learning week!
WEEKLY VIDEO UPDATE FROM MS. AMY
We hope our students had a great first week of classes! Great job to parents for making this happen for our dancers, and great job students for working so hard in class!
TIPS FOR MORE SUCCESS: As we continue to adapt to this temporary normal, we’ve come up with some tips I’d like to share with you.
Set screen name to dancer’s first name!
This helps teachers find dancer’s faster when interacting and when taking someone off of mute.
Our virtual office team will be logged in to take attendance and they’ll need to see dancer names!
We’re really excited to keep engaging students and offering more interaction time in classes each week. As time goes on, we’ll all keep adapting and becoming more adjusted to distance learning. Be patient with your younger children while they adjust to something new! Just like the first day of school, it will take some time to warm up and figure out this new way of learning! If they wiggle and squirm and need to spin circles or leave the screen for a second, that’s okay! They can hear us and see us and that’s still great! We’re watching them and will move on to the next thing to bring their attention back to us! Don’t worry, we are in this together and they’ll improve with time!
Class Expectations:
This week we worked on establishing clear class expectations and systems for communication with our students!
Safety First:
Here is what our studio is doing to keep kids safe:
Private Zoom links through email and text to only families registered for that class
No one can enter a class before the teacher. This way the teacher is present for the whole meeting
Our virtual office team is standing by to help with safety and all tech issues
Only the host (teacher) can screen share
Teachers can turn off videos at any time someone’s screen becomes distracting to the class.
We're confident in our additional precautions and are thankful that Zoom is being proactive in their security measures. Please let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns.
ACCESS CODES FOR CLASSES
Your access codes will stay the same, save your email to come back to each week. We will text you a class reminder on the day of your classes. We hope that will be helpful to you as you get back into a schedule! Texts will include the class meeting code and password to join.
MISS A CLASS? VIEW YOUR REPLAY ANY TIME!
Go to the main website: www.dancetoexpress or www.goleapnlearn.com
Click on “Parent Portal or Parent Tools”
Enter the member password: strongertogether
Click on “Classroom Vault” and find your class by age and day of the week!
Join our NEW Members Only Facebook Group! EDP Student & Family Community
We’re so excited to have an easy way to connect with you about special events and activities!
Weekly Activity Calendar:
Tune for any of our fun bonus activities this week! View the calendar below and any access links you’ll need are here:
Friday, April 10th- Parents' Night IN! "Easter Hunt & Dance Party" 6:30-7:15pm
Join HERE
Meeting ID: 561 455 907
Password: 083239
Saturday’s Creative Drawing w/ Ms. Kellie! Easter Bunny HERE or Green Frog HERE!
Monday Storytime with Ms. Amy
Join HERE
Meeting ID: 906 690 509
Password: 893275
Tuesday, April 14th- Family Fitness (Tuesday) and Friday, April 17th- Family Stretch (Friday) @ 10am
Join HERE
Meeting ID: 294 739 324
Password: 587320
Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Easter!
Ms. Amy and the EDP team