Well, it's the final weekend before our first day of school and believe us we have the jitters. Every time we think we are close to being ready for day one, something new gets added to our "To Do" list. We met our new second-graders yesterday. They seemed as excited to start school as we are.
We did spend most of last week in our Technology class. We were inspired to incorporate more technology into our everyday lessons. Our favorite class was when our tech coach reviewed Keynote and Podcasts for us. There were a few little things we learned to make our projects even better, such as how to make the words come in and out of each slide. We could never figure that out. We also learned that you can record your voice in a Keynote project. If you want to learn more about these two programs here is Tony's weebly site.
Obviously, we still do not have any student work or lessons to include in our blog this week. That will be next week. However, we do have three great reading websites. Two are helpful if you want lesson plan ideas that go with the Common Core. We would use these ideas as a springboard for our own lesson planning. We also might use some of the short non-fiction texts with our students. It is nice to have examples of lessons that correlate with the Common Core since it is so new to us and it is what we are so closely held accountable for. The third website is truly exciting. It is called Global Read Aloud. Teachers and students from around the world read the same story or chapter book and then blog about it with each other. Each grade level has their own unique book to read. Our students will be participating in this Global Read Aloud. It will allow them a shared learning experience with students from around the world. We see this as critical in educating the 21st Century student.
Hopefully you will find these websites as useful as we did.
Until next week...
Kim and Anne
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