Kindergarten Spanish:
This week, in honor of Dia de San Valentin (Valentine's Day), we added in a new body part-corazon (heart). We also learned te amo (I love you) and beso(kiss). We used the promethean board to check out Dora's lost valentine and make a card that we printed out for the Kindergarten teachers. As the students worked on a coloring sheet at the tables, they came up one group at a time to help make Besitos(little kisses), a traditional Mexican sugar cookie. The majority of the class agreed "Me gusta!" Here is the recipe in case you want to make them at home.
Mix 2 sticks of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 2 cups of flour, ¼ tsp. baking soda, and 1 egg. Roll dough into small balls then roll in cinnamon sugar. Bake for 10 min. or so at 350 until the cookies crack.
B1-2 Technology:
This week students put together everything we have learned this session so far to make a Valentine powerpoint called Things I Love. Students wrote text, formatted font,inserted clipart, and did slide transitions. Way to go! Remember, they are just in first and second grade!
3-4 Technology:
The internet is not just for games and research-it is also a tool for collaboration. This week we helped out Mrs. Golubic's First Grade Class at Market Street Elementary School in Boardman, Ohio with a project they are doing to find out classes favorite winter olympic sports. We spent some time exploring the winter olympic site and then created an excel graph of our favorite sports-snowboarding and figureskating seem to be the winners at Fort Craig!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Winter Session Week 5
Kindergarten Spanish:
We are still talking about our senses and body parts in Spanish. We practiced the vocabulary by playing a "What's Missing" game, then the children rotated through 4 different centers: Senor Potato Head, Operando, Lego colors, and a Promethean board activity. We read Carlos and the Skunk by Jan Romero Stevens and played Donde esta la nariz?
B1-2 Technology:
The snowy weather has led to some great lab activities! We listened to the Tumblebook 50 Below Zero by Robert Munsch, and made an excel graph of our favorite snowy day activities. This gave us a chance once again to practice inserting clipart, as we decorated our finished graphs with snow pictures. The last few minutes were spent creating snowflakes with the fantastic site, Make-a-Flake!
3-4 Technology:
We started a mini unit on the Winter Olympics. This week we learned about the Inukshuk, a symbol of the Vancouver games. Inukshuks, giant stone figures, are built by the Inuit people for a variety of reasons-to mark good hunting or fishing, for navigation, or just to show people have passed through the area. An inukshuk is a symbol of cooperation, community, and friendship. After watching a short video on inukshuks, the students got into small groups to try to build their own inukshuks out of pond stones. We documented the effort with digital photos and inserted them into a reflection sheet, as well as the animoto videos below. The end of class was spent on virtual stacking with the fun Super Stacker game.
We are still talking about our senses and body parts in Spanish. We practiced the vocabulary by playing a "What's Missing" game, then the children rotated through 4 different centers: Senor Potato Head, Operando, Lego colors, and a Promethean board activity. We read Carlos and the Skunk by Jan Romero Stevens and played Donde esta la nariz?
B1-2 Technology:
The snowy weather has led to some great lab activities! We listened to the Tumblebook 50 Below Zero by Robert Munsch, and made an excel graph of our favorite snowy day activities. This gave us a chance once again to practice inserting clipart, as we decorated our finished graphs with snow pictures. The last few minutes were spent creating snowflakes with the fantastic site, Make-a-Flake!
3-4 Technology:
We started a mini unit on the Winter Olympics. This week we learned about the Inukshuk, a symbol of the Vancouver games. Inukshuks, giant stone figures, are built by the Inuit people for a variety of reasons-to mark good hunting or fishing, for navigation, or just to show people have passed through the area. An inukshuk is a symbol of cooperation, community, and friendship. After watching a short video on inukshuks, the students got into small groups to try to build their own inukshuks out of pond stones. We documented the effort with digital photos and inserted them into a reflection sheet, as well as the animoto videos below. The end of class was spent on virtual stacking with the fun Super Stacker game.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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