Genius Hour and Reading Logs and Padlet, Oh My!
I’ve had some thoughts percolating since SC EdTech at the beginning of November. I attended some great sessions, and there were so many great things I learned that I want to share. Over Thanksgiving break I reviewed my notes and some ideas began to take shape. (It took until Christmas break to finish this post, […]
Text Innovations with The Important Book
Since the beginning of school, I’ve been trying to get my students to develop their ideas in their writing in an organized manner. We started off looking at paragraph organization using the hamburger writing technique to develop a paragraph with a main idea, 3 juicy details, and a closing sentence, as seen in this post […]
Place Value & App-Smashing: Representing Numbers Using Place Value
My students have been learning about place value and different ways to represent numbers using place value. I introduced the unit with a Nearpod lesson on place value to assess what students already knew. We also got out our place value blocks and worked with them to represent numbers. Then we made an anchor chart […]
linoit and Digital Data Walls
Over our fall break unexpected break earlier in the month due to Hurricane Matthew, I decided to work on my reading and math data walls. In case you are not familiar, a data wall helps organize your student data. We organized ours according to their percentile on MAP using file folders and small Post-Its. Here […]
6 Ways to Use Padlet in the Classroom: Part Two
I recently shared 4 ways to use Padlet in the classroom. If you didn’t read that post, please go check out 6 Ways to Use Padlet in the Classroom: Part One. If you did, you can probably tell from that I love using Padlet in my classroom. In fact, I now use it everyday! 5. Responding […]
6 Ways to Use Padlet in the Classroom: Part One
Padlet is a great online application to use in the classroom. If you’ve never used it, you really should check it out. You can use it like an online bulletin board, backchannel, and/or collaborative tool. I’m not sure who introduced it, our instructional coach or our media specialist, but I first heard about Padlet about 2 years […]
Summer Reflections
As my summer winds down and I begin to prepare myself for another school year, I’ve started to reflect on the past year . . . what worked, what didn’t, what I want to try again, etc. I especially considered my foray into the flipped classroom this past year (i.e. I had to write a […]
I’m an Osmo Ambassador!
I’m very excited to become an Osmo Certified Ambassador. I’m looking forward to sharing how awesome Osmo is with my fellow teachers and students alike. Stay tuned for how we use Osmo in my second grade English immersion classroom . . .
Osmo Gaming System
More exciting news . . . I was awarded another grant! The American Immigration Council awarded me their Community Education Grant based on the Family Artifact Research Project I planned. In this inquiry-based project, students will discover how culture has contributed to the diversity of their community and country using literary and informational texts and the digital […]
Finally . . . Got Our iPad Minis!
It took a while, but we finally got our iPad minis (and cases)! My students have enjoyed using them during math, and other times of the day, too. Here are some pictures of them using the iPads (we now have 7) for a recent math lesson that I taught using Nearpod. If you don’t know about […]