My Partner teacher Mrs. Wilson Rocks! Mrs. Wilson and I teach two 4th grade classes of about 30 students. She teaches Math, Science and Social Studies and I English Language Arts. The partnership we have built over the last two years has been valuable. We share common philosophies on teaching and have a love for technology. We also both began a blog last summer, which has become a place for us to reflect, share ...
Our state testing began on Thursday, April 12 with the students taking the ELA portion. That Monday I sent home letters to the parents asking them to write an encouraging letter to their child to open the first day of testing. On Thursday, students came in excited and eager to open ...
Today was our last day of Testing! Can I get an OH YEAH! We have three days left for this school week and then we will have off for Spring Break! Tomorrow my Shining and Shooting Stars are going to be busy preparing and reviewing expectations for our upcoming centers for the Week ...
The first tech tool I love is Edmodo. Why do you ask? It has developed the 4 C's, collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking in my students this year. Here are a few ways we have benefited from this awesome tech tool: students having educational chats ...
My last post I shared with you what my students are working on at their reading and technology centers. This post I would like to dedicate to the projects that students are creating at a few of the centers. At center 6, this week students worked on the iPad to create a sideshow. They are using the keynote app to build a genius paragraph. Click here to see an example. At center 5, students are created a Wordle. They ...
For the past two weeks and continuing until the end of the year, my 4th grade "Shining Stars" and "Shooting Stars" will work collaboratively in groups on technology based learning projects and in guided groups with a teacher. My students will demonstrate creative thinking, construct ...
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