Spring Session Week 3

Kindergarten Spanish:
This week we reviewed the parts of a plant and compared them to the parts of our body, giving us a chance to sing one of our favorite songs, "Hands on My Head." Hopefully I'll get some video of this one next week. We reviewed semillas (seeds) and saw how some can be pequeno (crocus seeds), some can be grande (avocado seeds), and some can be eaten (beans). We played a color bingo game with our bean semillas and read Under the Lemon Moon by Edith Hope Fine.

B1-2 Technology:
We started with Dance Mat typing-some of the students are already moving up some levels! I introduced the students to Voicethread, which is a tool for adding conversations to media-we used it to add our voices to the "I'm taller than/shorter than" pictures from last week. It was so much fun to see the children's eyes light up after they heard their recorded voices! While I was recording children one at a time, they were watching Hector's World, a great cartoon about internet safety. There were a few absent students that still need to record-when they are all finished I will post the voicethreads here for you to enjoy!

3-4 Technology:
This was TCAP week, so to give students a little break and reward for their effort during testing time we started a Voicethread to give the 3-4 teachers for teacher appreciation week. While students recorded voices individually with me, the others had some free time with the Just for Fun folder of activities on Ikeepbookmarks