Kindergarten Spanish:
All our talk about snow and snowmen has segued perfectly into body parts (and 5 senses). This week we learned how to say various body parts-head (cabeza),eyes(ojos),ears(orejas),nose(nariz),mouth(boca), stomach(estomago), and hands (manos). We played the ever popular dice game to practice this vocabulary and did a crazy face project where we passed around our papers and drew different body parts on each others' papers. It was fun to draw our snowman body parts on the Promethean board, and our story, The Biggest Best Snowman by Margery Cuyler, fit in perfectly.
B1-2 Technology:
We've started something new during keyboarding time-as the rest of the class does Type to Learn Jr, small groups of students come into the "clubhouse" section of the room to play a letter match game on the body keyboarding mat and do a "home row hop" where they "type" letters with their feet. Next, it was back to our weather theme. After discussing how different animals have different ways of surviving Winter-migration, adaptation, hibernation-students learned how to maniputlate a powerpoint document about animals in winter. They added clipart, slide transitions, and learned how to view the show. It was a little rough, but for the most part they did quite well, considering these are skills that we will continue working on through fourth grade! The last few minutes of class we did a little click and drag practice to see what we could make with 100 snowballs.
3-4 Technology:
Older students are also enjoying the body keyboarding mat in small groups. Our lesson this week practice clipart placement, picture resizing, and formatting in Word as we turned the "Hey Diddle Diddle" rhyme into a rebus story with pictures for key words. The end of class was spent in the Cyber Cafe where we continued our internet safety lessons about email and social networking sites.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Winter Session Week 3
Kindergarten Spanish:
Continuing our discussion of weather and seasons, this week we focused on animals in invierno and different ways they adapt when hace frio-some migrate, some store extra food or grow thicker coats, and some hibernate. We read A Silly Snowy Day, by Michael Coleman, about a tortoise who wants to experience invierno instead of hibernating, and we then pretended we were hibernating with our Buenas Noches game (sort of like thumbs up, 7 up game you might remember from your elementary days!)A nieve coloring sheet and some nieve games (Donde esta la nieve?) finished up our lesson.
B1-2 Technology:
After our keyboarding practice with Type to Learn, Jr, students watched a silly Tumblebook called Martin MacGregor's Snowman. Next, we found our Snowman stories in our folders and learned how to add and resize clipart. Any extra time was spent on Education City.
3-4 Technology:
Keyboarding with Type to Learn to start, and then a discussion about what it means to "surf" the web-we learned how links are what make web pages interactive and give the reader control over where they want to go, "surfing" one place to the next. We visited the homepage for the National Gallery of Art and decided which links would be used to see if the museum was open Thursdays, how much tickets cost, and what artists are featured. Without hyperlinks, a web page would be jumbled and unorganized-like a collage. We went to ngakids.gov and played around with collage machine 2. The students made some great collages-try at home so they can be printed- before creating (on paper) their own homepage for a website which includes at least 4 links. Look for these next week in Friday folders.
Continuing our discussion of weather and seasons, this week we focused on animals in invierno and different ways they adapt when hace frio-some migrate, some store extra food or grow thicker coats, and some hibernate. We read A Silly Snowy Day, by Michael Coleman, about a tortoise who wants to experience invierno instead of hibernating, and we then pretended we were hibernating with our Buenas Noches game (sort of like thumbs up, 7 up game you might remember from your elementary days!)A nieve coloring sheet and some nieve games (Donde esta la nieve?) finished up our lesson.
B1-2 Technology:
After our keyboarding practice with Type to Learn, Jr, students watched a silly Tumblebook called Martin MacGregor's Snowman. Next, we found our Snowman stories in our folders and learned how to add and resize clipart. Any extra time was spent on Education City.
3-4 Technology:
Keyboarding with Type to Learn to start, and then a discussion about what it means to "surf" the web-we learned how links are what make web pages interactive and give the reader control over where they want to go, "surfing" one place to the next. We visited the homepage for the National Gallery of Art and decided which links would be used to see if the museum was open Thursdays, how much tickets cost, and what artists are featured. Without hyperlinks, a web page would be jumbled and unorganized-like a collage. We went to ngakids.gov and played around with collage machine 2. The students made some great collages-try at home so they can be printed- before creating (on paper) their own homepage for a website which includes at least 4 links. Look for these next week in Friday folders.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Winter Session Week 2
Kindergarten Spanish:
Last Friday's snow day was perfect timing-this week was all about nieve(snow). We acted out weather expressions like hace frio(it's cold) and esta nevando(it's snowing), and pretended to make a bola de nieve(snowball) which we turned into an hombre de nieve(snowman). We read Emily's Snowball by Elizabeth Keown, played color bingo (nieve is blanco) and made some paper nieve to decorate the ventanas in our classroom.
B1-2 Technology:
After Type to Learn Jr and a review of homerow keys/fingers, We watched a short youtube excerpt of The Snowman by Raymond Briggs. If you have never seen this beautiful video, please be sure to watch each part! Since there is no dialogue in the story, students imagined that they were the snowman and created a word document saying where they lived, what they ate, what they liked/hated, etc. We saved these in our folders(always a challenge) so we can add some clipart next week.
3-4 Technology:
Because of missed classes, only Tues. and Wed. were new-we let everyone else catch up. The new classes had an extra class to explore the cyberchase quests, a good lesson in patience, observation, critical thinking while having fun solving math and language arts challenges. We also had fun seeing the voki comments on my cyber challenge-keep them coming!
Last Friday's snow day was perfect timing-this week was all about nieve(snow). We acted out weather expressions like hace frio(it's cold) and esta nevando(it's snowing), and pretended to make a bola de nieve(snowball) which we turned into an hombre de nieve(snowman). We read Emily's Snowball by Elizabeth Keown, played color bingo (nieve is blanco) and made some paper nieve to decorate the ventanas in our classroom.
B1-2 Technology:
After Type to Learn Jr and a review of homerow keys/fingers, We watched a short youtube excerpt of The Snowman by Raymond Briggs. If you have never seen this beautiful video, please be sure to watch each part! Since there is no dialogue in the story, students imagined that they were the snowman and created a word document saying where they lived, what they ate, what they liked/hated, etc. We saved these in our folders(always a challenge) so we can add some clipart next week.
3-4 Technology:
Because of missed classes, only Tues. and Wed. were new-we let everyone else catch up. The new classes had an extra class to explore the cyberchase quests, a good lesson in patience, observation, critical thinking while having fun solving math and language arts challenges. We also had fun seeing the voki comments on my cyber challenge-keep them coming!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Winter Session Week 1
A short week due to Monday inservice, Thursday early dismissal, and Friday snowday!
Kindergarten Spanish:
So much that is nuevo to discuss--ano nuevo (2010), mes nuevo (enero-Jan.), a nuevo season (invierno), and weather that is nuevo (hace frio-cold, nieve-snow)! We even talked about some nuevo gifts we received over the holidays. The rest of the class was focused on reviewing seasons and colors. We played the season dice game, made a mini-season book, discussed our favorite seasons and activities (me gusta!), and finished up with a silly Spanish video about colors.
B1-2 Tech:
As usual, our lesson starts with keyboarding, but this session we are focusing on our homerow fingers-quite a challenge! We will be using the program Type To Learn, Jr. as we start not only using the right hands to type a letter, but also some of the right fingers. We reviewed internet safety with Faux Paw, the Safety Cat video, games, and coloring.
3-4 Tech:
Type to Learn again, this time with an option to go back to some beginning levels to let our fingers relearn some basics. We reviewed internet safety, and our Word formatting skills, by changing fonts, colors, background, and borders on a safety rules document and watched the Tumblebook Little Red in Cyberspace. I also introduced our first at home cyberchallenge-to comment on my Winter Break snowman voki by creating your own!
Kindergarten Spanish:
So much that is nuevo to discuss--ano nuevo (2010), mes nuevo (enero-Jan.), a nuevo season (invierno), and weather that is nuevo (hace frio-cold, nieve-snow)! We even talked about some nuevo gifts we received over the holidays. The rest of the class was focused on reviewing seasons and colors. We played the season dice game, made a mini-season book, discussed our favorite seasons and activities (me gusta!), and finished up with a silly Spanish video about colors.
B1-2 Tech:
As usual, our lesson starts with keyboarding, but this session we are focusing on our homerow fingers-quite a challenge! We will be using the program Type To Learn, Jr. as we start not only using the right hands to type a letter, but also some of the right fingers. We reviewed internet safety with Faux Paw, the Safety Cat video, games, and coloring.
3-4 Tech:
Type to Learn again, this time with an option to go back to some beginning levels to let our fingers relearn some basics. We reviewed internet safety, and our Word formatting skills, by changing fonts, colors, background, and borders on a safety rules document and watched the Tumblebook Little Red in Cyberspace. I also introduced our first at home cyberchallenge-to comment on my Winter Break snowman voki by creating your own!
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