The first part of this year was overall the best I have ever had. I love the new common core curriculum and the teaching style and I like the new additions like the writing units and phonics lessons. Figuring out testing was the biggest obstacle but nothing too bad to stress over. I love having the laptops and Ipads, even though it has taken a while to get my little ones able to independently use them and stay on task. I compared my first semester to Elf since I was always smiling. :-)
Second semester, I am so excited for because my students now understand the procedures and are finally becoming more able to use the technology independently. They know my expectations and some of them are now able to navigate to certain websites all by themselves! We are even typing sentences now at this point and next week we will be "publishing" our how to books on the computers using powerpoint to make books. I will soon add them to google and let them make books on google presentation but I want to get some more typing practice in.
I am just going to keep on smiling like Elf and keep up the positive attitude and faith my students can do anything they set their little minds to. Witten's Kittens are gonna have some fun this semester!
So glad to see that you're always smiling. You clearly love your Ks. Their progress with technology sounds great. I'm sure it is quite a task with getting the students to begin writing sentences and typing. Love your name "Witten's Kittens!"
ReplyDeleteHey! I didn't think of publishing "How To" books on Powerpoint. Even though I don't much care for Powerpoint, I like the idea. I've been trying to think of new ideas to incorporate for my students this semester. Do you have any other good ideas? I know we talked about this at our December Pinnacle meeting, but I wanted to see if you had any new ideas because you usually have great stuff!
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