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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Monday, April 25, 2011
Baby Animals
San Diego Zoo Photo Credit at ZooBorns Today!
Here’s A Glimpse At A Few Images From A Favorite Website We Love To Use In Our Classroom!
I use daily digital images to promote oral language skills among my first grader students. I share the image with the entire class. We generate some questions and facts {...and opinions...} about the photo and then the fun begins. Using a Kagan Structure, the students stand up, pair up, and engage in conversation with a partner. The daily image can be used during a transition time or when a "Noisy Nora" break is needed!
We just can’t seem to get enough of these cute baby animals born in zoos and aquariums around the world!
Cute books, too!
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Storybird
Are you always looking for an engaging way to inspire the writer in all of your students?
Enjoy your Sunday!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
3 Dimensional Shapes
Do you Google? Have you tried Google SketchUp?
My first graders can't get enough of this free program!
My students created, modified, and shared 3D models using this drawing software.
Here's a look at just a few of our final projects that my First Graders created independently as we studied Geometry!
(This image gives you an idea of the creation before the textures and surfaces have been added.)
Now for the finer details!
(We even rotated our buildings 360 degrees to get a better look from "all angles"!)
Our plan is to add all of our 26 creations to a digital story to share with family and friends!
I hope you'll give Google SketchUp a try with your "Shape Experts"!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Bon Appetit!
March is National Children's Nutrition Month!
We will begin our Nutrition Unit tomorrow!
(I'll post a few pictures of our activities later this week.)
Here are a couple of great sites!
(Click above to visit the site.)
(Click above to visit the site.)
Here's a pdf with a few more links!
Happy Teaching!
Friday, March 11, 2011
States of Matter
Here are a few great links for "States of Matter"!
Scholastic
Harcourt
Have a restful weekend!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Digital Storytelling
Wow! We are working hard to draft, edit, revise, and publish our digital stories!
Robert Munsch has inspired many of my first grade writers in February!
Here's a look at one of our finished projects from today!
(You will need to turn the volume up.)
To complete this project, the student worked through several steps in the writing process. The process started with the student writing his own "loose tooth" story in a "draft" book. After writing and illustrating this story with a beginning, middle, and an ending, the student signed up for a conference to edit his written work with me. After editing the work, the student revised the work to make any additional changes. Once the changes were completed, the student used his final draft to record his story using Audacity. The student also used a digital camera to capture four digital images of his work. Finally, the student met with me a second time to upload pictures and to publish the work in video format! Digital Storytelling allows the writing process to come alive!
Happy Writing!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Wild About Nonfiction
Check out the Smithsonian Web 2.0 Project!
Amazing Photos ~ Take a look!
Animal Nonfiction
Here's an Animal Research Booklet!
(Click above to download the pdf.)
Happy Reading and Learning Together!
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