One of the additional resources that we recently received are called Think Tanks. We have been seeing some positive changes in our students' math abilities, comprehension, and ability to explain their thinking. Our district adopted a new math program this year by Origo Education called Stepping Stones. Parents were alerted to this site via the classroom blog as well.
I also linked this site in the sidebar of my classroom blog for students to access at home. Once students were on the site, we saved the site as an icon on our iPads which will now make it extremely easy for them to access this site at all times at school. I use my blog not only as an information area for parents, but also as a portal for my students to get to where they need to go). To help my students access this site, I simply wrote a post on our classroom blog with a link to the site (our blog is an icon in our home row so is easy for students to access. I feel strongly about teaching students to do it the correct way from the beginning.
While this is easy and produces many options, it is also illegal.
So often, teachers will have their students simply find images on the web and copy/paste them to their projects. The site above is the site that my class is currently using to find copyright-free images for our technology projects. In addition, it gives us an opportunity to go back and reflect on where we started and how far we have come with our writing, reading, and technology skills over the course of the year. I am hoping to do a lot more with students recording their writing when they are done as it was extremely motivating for them and was a wonderful way for us to share with our parents. Once this was done, they voice recorded themselves reading their informational piece and shared it with their parents. When we were done, students used the site, to find a picture of a coyote which they then uploaded to the DoodlecastPro app. They then took their facts and wrote an informational paragraph with a topic sentence, 3 details (facts) and a conclusion sentence. After collecting and sorting out our notes, kiddos chose three facts that they found most interesting. We read a book about coyotes and took notes as we went. This week during our writing time we have been working on writing informational pieces. I even have kiddos asking if they can use it during indoor recess. The app itself is very easy to use and my kiddos have gotten better and faster at creating their Popples. On a school budget, the cost outweighs the convenience- so we deal with having to take screen shots.
Ugly sweater piccollage full version#
The downfall, the full version costs $4.99. The Popplet app solves this problem as you can create, save, and come back to Popples as needed. This can sometimes be a bit of an inconvenience when kiddos don't finish in one sitting and others are waiting to do their Popple. The lite app only allows you to do one Popple at a time so once kiddos are done, they simply screen shot their Popple and then we are good to go again. They then listed penguin facts around their pictures. Students went to the Pics 4 Learning site that I mentioned here to choose a picture of a penguin to use as the center of their web. As part of our research we used the Popplet lite app to record what we know about penguins. We've been researching penguins in our class this past week.
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