Congratulations to the following winners in my Interactive Student Notebooks Reading Lesson on Story Elements!
These lucky winners have received an email from me (hopefully) informing them of the recent win and the link to my product. Keep checking back, because my next ISN activity is in the works!
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Well, the freebie is over, but you can still win my Interactive Student Notebook Lesson on Analyzing Story Elements!
Enter here! I’ll choose the top 5 winners in 24 hours!
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I’ve been playing around with it for a while now, and it’s finally finished! I’m so excited to show off my new ISN lesson – Analyzing Story Elements.
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I hope everyone has had an amazing week! I sure have! It’s a beautiful Saturday and while I’m spending my morning getting my hair fried, dyed, and laid to the side :-), I thought I’d link up with Joanne over at Head Over Heels for Teaching for her Spark Student Motivation Linky Party!
I’ve previously shared what a Vistaprint fan I am. And I firmly believe that building relationships with students and their family is just as important as teaching the content. So in this post I’m showing the blending of the two.
Once a week I send home postcards to parents of my awesome students! The postcard just lets parents know that I see the hard work their children put in on a daily basis and I appreciate their support!
You should see how excited the kids are the day after their parents get a card. They work even harder! And my kids already work HARD!
How many of you are Vistaprint fans? What neat ways do you use their products in your classroom?
And don’t forget to head over to Joanne’s link up and discover some other awesome ideas!
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I don’t know how you super bloggers do it! I’m in awe of your “get it togetherness”, posting once or twice a week – shoot just posting DURING the week! I can barely get a post done on the weekend!
But, it’s Thursday Throwdown – I have to link up! I absolutely love Erin’s linky party that focuses on ways that lessons can be interactive for their students!
Today, I’m sharing Socrative.
Socrative is another type of student response system. With Socrative you can engage your students using laptops, smartphones, and tablets. The great thing about Socrative is that you don’t have to use the same type of device. So if you’re in a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) setting, you aren’t limited.
When you sign up, each teacher is assigned a “room”. All the teachers on my hall came up with a uniform system. Each of us start with the number 500 and end with our room number. Easy for the children (and us!) to remember!
As a teacher you can create your questions ahead of time to get documented feedback, or you can just verbally ask a question for impromptu feedback. Here’s an example of what I see and what the students see.
After they finish the assignment, it can be immediately downloaded or you can receive an email. Either way, it’s already graded! Yay! If you’ve been following me for a while, you know my policy…..worker smarter not harder! 🙂
You should definitely give Socrative a try. If you do, stop back by and tell me if you think it’s a winner like I do!
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It’s Currently time! Farley at Oh Boy, 4th Grade‘s linky party is the greatest way to kick off a new month.
The fam and I had a great time at the beach this weekend so I’m appreciative that we have today off. I literally almost fell off the piano bench at church because I was so tired….lol.
The kids are doing some AWESOME things with the iPads! Of course, you never know what will happen until you get them, so we’ve got like iPads with 25 Spongebob pics…..lol, but we’re getting there. But it’s only Week 2 and they know how to get documents off Edmodo, work on them, and upload them back to Edmodo….so I’m very happy!
I haven’t done that much with iMovie in the past, but I decided to create a movie trailer for my parents on Open House night, and it was AWESOME! Check it out here:
Farley’s right! As teachers we are so used to taking care of others and neglecting ourselves. I started back running this summer, but since then……NOTHING! My goal is to walk/jog 30 miles this month. And I’m eliminating soda from my diet….specifically Coke Zero. And in order to get those 30 miles in, I need to leave school by 4 at least twice a week. Wish me luck!
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