Friday, April 6, 2012

reflections of lesson

Well, using Spec has really helped with our writing.  The student groups each took a colony and then each student took a part:
 culture, economy, religion,geography,etc.. they were to write about the part and persuade the others to come to their colony.  The students are then taking the information and drawing pictures with the information. They are really loving the special time to work on this project because it really involves them.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Wordle: Untitled

This shows me that I sometimes really like what I do with my students!

Writing

Although I love the idea of using Social Studies to do writing, I felt that I wasn't at a point in my classroom to use what we had first thought of.  I did like Brenda's writing prompt she came up with and will use it in the future with my class.  I did find some primary sources and a few "Who Am I" activities to help get the students acquainted with Ben Franklin.  That will help with the writing.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Summer Institute

I really enjoyed the summer institute.  All of the speakers were amazing Sharon Sundueng shared many interesting stories and information about the colonist that I can't wait to share with My students.  Some things I had never heard before.  Anthony Fitzpatrick was as always awesome.  I love his enthusiasm and he always has great information to share.  I really loved Dennis Denenberg, he had many great "Hero Ideas" to share and he was very fun to watch and listen.  I loved his book and my students are loving it also.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Foundations trainning

I learned how to set up a blog and a live  .  I did a little customizing.  I am going to set up a live binder in my classroom.