Organization [Math]

Google Calendar

Your Google Calendar is going to be an essential tool to keep you up-to-date with middle school activities and events, as well as personal to-dos, events and reminders. Have your calendar tab open all the time and check it at least once-a-day.

Open Google Chrome and make sure you are logged in to your SAS Google account.

Click on the link below and click on the +Google icon (bottom right corner):

the Middle School calendar
the Schoolwide Calendar

You should assign each of your calendars a different color so they are easy to distinguish from each other.

Explore Google Calendar. See how many of the following things you can find answers to. When you find something interesting or useful, please share with a neighbor.

When is the next Red Day 1?
What dates are the Fall break?
When does season 2 of the after-school activities start?

Google Calendar to Toddle Sync

Now, Let's sync up your Toddle Calendar to your Google Calendar. There are a few steps to this so please follow along first carefully.

Step one, get in to Toddle and on the top right click ‘View Calendar’.

Step two, once in Calendar, click subscribe as shown.

Step three, click the circle next to the Google Calendar option, and choose ‘Class assignments’ and then click ‘Done’ to confirm.

The MS Bulletin

A great way to stay organized and up-to-date with what is happening in the middle school is to read the MS Bulletin regularly. It is updated twice a week.

Each week the MS Bulletin will be sent to you by email, as well as published on Toddle in the School Announcements.

TASK: Go to Toddle, School Announcements and find and read the latest Middle School Bulletin.

Google Drive

Google Drive is your online 'cloud' storage.

You can use Google Drive to organize and save all of your work in the cloud. Teachers and students will use Drive to share documents with you.

Keeping your Google Drive organized will help you be more efficient and productive. You can create your own folders and color code them.

For tips on how to organize and manage your Drive, and the share and collaborate, watch the videos below.

Out with the Old!

Before you get started with your digital life in Middle School. Spend some time clearning all the Drive clutter that you may have created in Elementary School:

Create a folder called 'Elementary School'
Make it blue (right click folder in Drive, click Organize, Choose Color)
Select all your old files/folders (EXCEPT any new ACADEMY documents) and files and drag them into the new ES folder

Now you're ready to go!

Share your learning

In your Drive, create a new folder and call it 'G6 Laptop Academy'. Change its color to green so it stands out. Double-click the new folder to open it
Inside your new 'G6 Laptop Academy' folder, create a new Google Doc.
Name your doc - "G6: Laptop Academy - Good Habits for Organization - your name " (Use the grade+subject code naming convention throughout middle school. Naming your files well is good practice for keeping your files organized and easily searchable. You will also be able to easily tell which documents are for which class.)
Create a title for your page - Habits for Organization
Create a sub-heading called 'At School'.
Make a bullet point list of 5 actions/habits that you will try to do or use to help keep you 'digitally' well organized at school.
Create a sub-heading called 'At Home'.
Make a numbered list of 5 actions/habits that you will try to do or use to help keep you 'digitally' well organized at home.
Add a screenshot of your new green 'G6 Laptop Academy' Google Drive folder to your document.
Submit the document in the 'At School, At Home: Organization' Learning Experience in your Toddle Advisory class. You will need to attach it as a Google Drive attachment.

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