I've decided to have my students use this web site: Auto Motivator to create motivational posters. We are going to take pictures of students in different locations through out the school such as the lunch room, hallway, bathroom, bus, playground etc. Then we will write down some basic rules that need to be followed in each of these places. We will then put the posters into a slide show. I made two quick examples of posters with my own images just to try out the site. You do not need to register and the process was very easy. The image can be downloaded right to your computer. I love it when I find easy Web 2.0 tools like this one. I'll post the slide show when we have it all finished!
I'm sure there are many other uses for this tool. Pictures of students with a quote from them on a current event or issue would be neat. The principal or teacher giving some positive reinforcement, or how about encouraging words from parents written on a poster with the parent's picture on it. Share your ideas if you have any!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Example Two of a Poster From AutoMotivator
I also had this picture from when we stayed on the ocean in Texas and I thought it made a great poster to motivate others with positive life thoughts!
Example One of a Poster From AutoMotivator
I made this poster with my own image from a trip to Dallas, Texas.
Monday, September 6, 2010
"Where Did You Go Over the Summer?" in December!
I'm so frustrated. Last year I found out we would be going 1 to 1 computers in our 5th grade classroom. Here it is the 2nd week of school and I have yet to see our computers in our classroom. They are in our district, but they have not been imaged and set up for student use. Our district decided to switch over to Google for Education the last two weeks of August. So not only do we not have our laptops for our students, but every computer in every lab is not usable. I have so many ideas ready to use with the students, and all of my ideas for the beginning of the school year are just going out the window. Will I be doing "Where did you go over the summer?" with Google Earth in December? Will I be making "Introduce Yourself" Glogs in January? How about starting up a blog in February? I can't stand the waiting anymore!
I Didn't Know I Could Do That!
Did you know that a lot of game sites will let you share their games on Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious and tons of other places? I shared two games that I played. One off of this site: Primary Games and another off of this site: Mr. Nussbaum Check the two posts below to see these games.
All you need to do is look for the share button and then click on the place you want to share. I plan to have my students share games they enjoy playing on their blogs. Other students will then see which games their friends like. This is a great way to get kids excited about playing educational games!
Eat Your Words - PrimaryGames.com - Free Games for Kids
Eat Your Words - PrimaryGames.com - Free Games for Kids
I chose easy and found all of the words!
I chose easy and found all of the words!
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Want to Get to Know Your New Students?
Would you like to find out how your new students learn best?
*Check out this site. It has an online survey to take on multiple intelligences. When you are finished, you will see your intelligences listed in order from high to low.
*This is another survey to give to students on Learning Styles. Students can find out if they are a visual learner, auditory learner or kinesthetic learner.
Free Stuff on Brain Pop
Hi Everyone,
This week I would like to tell you about a great web site for kids called Brain Pop. This site is great for teaching students about a variety of topics in all subject areas. The students first watch a movie, then they can do activities that go with the movie and also take a quiz. There is also a Q and A section that works well for class discussions and there are other resources that go with each video such as timelines and experiments. In order to access all of Brain Pop's resources you need to subscribe to the site. However I have found the free items that they offer to be very useful and they change which videos and activities are free each week. To see all of Brain Pop's free resources click here.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Upload a Word Doc from Scribd
SCHEDULE 2009-2010
Here is a word document of our class schedule that I uploaded to this site. The embed code was under the share tab.
Here is a word document of our class schedule that I uploaded to this site. The embed code was under the share tab.
Lots of sites to visit
I'm checking out this site to see which of these I can use with my students this year. Some of these I've already used, but quite a few I haven't. I will be trying out a bunch and putting examples onto this blog. Kind of fun to play around with these!
An Argument from aMap
This site allows you to create an argument and then students can add their thoughts and opinions to the argument. You need email addresses to create and add to the argument. The embed code was under the share.
Embedded venn diagram off of Classtools.net
You can make many different organizers including a venn diagram, timeline, countdown timer or a note. You can embed it by clicking on the gear icon in the bottom right corner. I want to use these with my students!
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Non fiction Reading to Teach Strategies
These lessons will be great for teaching strategies like cause and effect, inference and summarizing. The lessons are well organized and make the students apply what they are learning. These will be great for test prep!
Stories Read by Famous Authors!
I want to project one of these stories onto the smart board for the class to see each week. They are really well done and fun to listen to!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Bellwork on a Wiki!
This year our classroom is going 1 to 1 computers, so I am going to try having students do their bell work on a wiki! Bell work is work that is completed first thing in the morning when a student enters the classroom. I've made pages for the first 3 days of school, which starts on a Wednesday. I think I will make a theme for each day of the week. It will look like this:
Mon. = Something off of the BrainPOP website. (Love the free videos and activities and they have quizzes too!)
Tue. = A reading, spelling or language activity such as this.
Wed. = An art activity such as this.
Thur. = A math activity such as this.
Fri. = Game day! I'm thinking of sites like this or this.
Here is a look at the first week of my wiki on bellwork. Remember, school starts on Wed. so Mon. and Tue. don't have anything right now.
I Made an Online Blogging Course!
As part of my master's program, I had to create an online course. I decided to make my class on creating and using a blog. Because I teach 5th grade, I thought Moodle was a little too much for my students. I wanted something simple and easy to navigate through. So I used Google Sites. I plan to begin this course sometime in November. Can't wait to see how it goes!
Use my iPod Touch to Record Reading Records!
Here is a great idea for recording students reading. One of the first things we do at the beginning of each year is have students read to us and record a reading record. When we are done there is no way to replay the reading. So this year I plan to use the record feature on my iPod Touch to record each student reading and put them somewhere (perhaps Power Point or a Podcast?). Then I will record each student again half way through the school year and at the end of the school year. I got this idea from this link.
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