Blog – Page 22

Punctuation Police

We are writing like the wind in first grade. It is thrilling for a teacher to see! My students are writing more and more with stories full of pages. There is only one thing that is missing on a lot of them...correct punctuation! The students and I both have been using our Lucy Calkins writing rubrics to assess writing. One of our standards includes using correct ending ... Read More about Punctuation Police

Fractions iPad App

We just finished our geometry unit in math. We learned about 3d shapes and fractions. When we are going through our unit lessons we are always thinking about how we could complete the lesson using our 1 to 1 iPads instead of paper pencil. Bridges has some WONDERFUL apps that make it easy to do this! We thought creatively and used their geoboard app (it's FREE!) to create fractions. There ... Read More about Fractions iPad App

The Kahoot Heard ‘Round the Country

Have you heard of Kahoot? If not, you MUST check it out! It is a game-based classroom response system. It is basically a way for teachers to ask questions to their students to learn more about their knowledge. This can be done for an assessment, or for fun. I knew my students would love it when our third grade teacher told me that her students started shouting "One more test! One more test!" after ... Read More about The Kahoot Heard ‘Round the Country

How To Enable Tweet Notifications!

Do you want to follow our class on Twitter, but not actually have to scroll through your Twitter feed? You can sign up for Tweet notifications! To sign up, you will need a Twitter account. If you do, just follow the directions below to enable notifications! Click on the black banner below to be taken to a PDF with the directions! ... Read More about How To Enable Tweet Notifications!

Reader’s Theater with Sock Puppets

Our class LOVES performing reader's theaters. We would perform them in front of our class every day if we could. Unfortunatley, we do not have the time to do that. I started thinking and realized that we could perform via our iPads and then share! We recorded ourselves on Sock Puppets and had a blast doing it. The only problem would be that you can only record for 90 seconds at a ... Read More about Reader’s Theater with Sock Puppets

GoNoodle

Our class is a HUGE fan of GoNoodle! I recently presented at a conference where they were giving away GoNoodle lanyards. I picked one up, but was not sure what I would do with it. One day we were taking one of our many GoNoodle brain breaks and my students were shouting out requests. That is when it hit me, I would name a GoNoodle Champ and the Champ would get to pick the brain break. It was the ... Read More about GoNoodle