We had a FABULOUS time at our classroom Halloween Party. Thank you to Mrs. Eckenstahler, Mrs. Whaples, Mrs. Sagubadi, and Mrs. Kissner for planning and executing a fun Halloween Party. The kids had so much fun...without any food! This party was definitely in the top 5 for best classroom Halloween Party!
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We are so excited to be an iPad 1-1 classroom this year. To kick off the year using iPad, students learned about being digital citizens. A digital citizen is someone who uses technology and the internet in a responsible, respectful, and appropriate way. Students will have access to the Internet, and I wanted to teach them the importance of being safe in the online community. We vowed that when we are online we will...
To help reinforce main idea and supporting details, students created main idea bags. To do this, students first decided what they wanted their bag's main idea to be about. Students were able to choose anything. Then, students needed to find or draw 3 to 4 objects that would be details to the bag's main idea. We learned that the main idea, or what the text is mostly about, must have supporting detail sentences. It's similar to the palm of your hand. The palm of your hand is the main idea, and the fingers extending out are supporting details. You need both parts to accomplish things. Students were super creative and had a lot of fun trying to figure out classmates main idea bags. Check out the pictures below. I am attaching our weekly spelling assignments with directions to all of the assignments. Please refer to the attached document if there are questions regarding spelling. In writing, we have been working on completing a personal narrative. Students were taken through the writing process to complete the writing. Students began at the pre-writing stage. During pre-writing, students were asked to brainstorm six different things they did over the summer. Students did this on a sheet of paper, and included a pictures with each idea. Then, students looked at their list and picked the thing they did that they were most excited about. After that, we went through the rest of the writing process to write a four paragraph essay. In our introductory paragraphs, students had to come up with an inviting lead to 'hook' our readers, and in our concluding paragraph, students had to share their final thoughts/feelings about their summer event.
To incorporate technology, students used their iPads to take Selfies. After students took the Selfies, they saved it to their Google Drive and then shared it with me. From there I printed them. Students also explained the different components to our project (writing, sunglass illustration, and Selfie), and incorporated our Common Core learning standards into the explanation. Students wrote scripts to explain the components, and then recorded them on the computer. The recording was changed into a QR Code, and students used their QR Readers to listen to the explanations. Please check out the awesome pictures below showcasing our personal narratives, and if you get a chance, come up to Room 812 to check them out in person. |
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