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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Virtual Trip to Timbuktu, Mali
Our class decided to take a trip to Timbuktu, Mali. We have been studying about Our Community, Communities Across the U.S and Communities Around the World in Social Studies. We went to Google Earth and took a look at our community right here at Longs Creek then off to Timbuktu. We were able to see schools, playgrounds, neighborhoods, markets and more. We discussed and compared the differences between our community and the community of Timbuktu. We discovered many differences for example, the houses were made out of mud bricks and most of our houses are made of rock, brick or stucco. We can see that Timbuktu is located in the desert by all the sand. Their markets are not like going to HEB we discovered. We saw stands set up with umbrellas to sale fruits and vegetables. We also learned that they entertain themselves by listening to Griots, or storytellers and playing instruments called Koras. After our time spent visiting Timbuktu, we wrote our weekly Friday letters in our Dear...journals to our parents about our trip to Timbuktu. Every student also has their very own blog at kidblog.org/msjordansclass2/. They plan to blog about their very own experiences as well. The link is in the left sidebar on my blog. If you would like to take a look and visit their blogs, feel free to comment. We are just beginning and they have only begun to blog at home right now. We will begin blogging at school this week.
Monday, August 23, 2010
The 1st Day
Wow! What a great first day of school. We really had a great day getting to know eachother and finding out interesting things about new friends and old friends that we didn't already know. I started our day by introducing myself to the class using my Bio Bag. I had 5 different things/pictures inside the bag that would tell a little about myself and the things I like to do. The students then put their Bio Bags together and began decorating them with things that they enjoyed doing. They took their Bio Bags home to complete for their first homework assignment. On Thursday, students should all have their Bio Bags ready to present to the class. We also played Name Bingo. This was a game that they had to walk around the class finding characteristics from their bingo card that matched a student in the class. Once they found a match, they would have that student write their name in the bingo box. After all the boxes were filled in, we played Name Bingo. I would call out the names of our classmates and they would cover their bingo boxes if they had that students name on their bingo card. Once they covered four in a row, they called out bingo. The bingo winner would then have the four students on their bingo card stand up to introduce the unique characteristic about that student. For example, "Johnny is someone who has more than 2 brothers or sisters." We played a lot of getting to know eachother games and look forward to a great rest of the week.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Last night was our "Meet the Teacher" night. It was a great turn out with a lot of excited 3rd graders. I am so happy to have met so many wonderful parents and students. I look forward to a year full of learning with all the technology opportunities our school has to offer. This year our class will have a new iPad and Mac in our room. We will be one of two classes at Longs Creek to try them out this year and experience great ways to differentiate our learning. Please feel free to comment about what you are looking forward to in 3rd grade whether you are a parent or student?
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Surfing the Internet
I have been surfing the net today as I do many times throughout the week hoping to find great ideas to use in my classroom. I have found many and always update my blog in the links etc. I decided to write about this new feature I found called "Readability". The way it works is when you come to an article on the internet worth reading, you click on the readability tab in favorites or on your toolbar and it takes away all the other distracting pictures, advertisements etc. to help you focus on the article itself. When you go to the site, you simply right click and add it to your favorites to use anytime you want to utilize this feature surfing the net. I also added it to my favorites tool bar at the top for easy access. The site shows an example of how it works. I tried it on a few articles and discovered it to be beneficial to students with ADD/ADHD. Try it! You might just like it!
The way it works is when you come to an article on the internet worth reading, you click on the readability tab in favorites or on your toolbar and it takes away all the other distracting pictures, advertisements etc. to help you focus on the article itself.
READABILITY
http://weskids.com/0910/website/
The way it works is when you come to an article on the internet worth reading, you click on the readability tab in favorites or on your toolbar and it takes away all the other distracting pictures, advertisements etc. to help you focus on the article itself.
READABILITY
http://weskids.com/0910/website/
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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