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By: Elizabeth Moore,
on 11/23/2013
Blog: TWO WRITING TEACHERS (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Kelly Butcher,
on 11/15/2011
Blog: The Lemme Library (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This is the little guy causing all the fuss around here! Not so bad, right? Kinda cute? This hooks to the Smartboard and then to your computer, reducing the number of chords hanging down and looking unsightly.
By: Mary Lee,
on 9/12/2010
Blog: A Year of Reading (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Locust, or cicada, is chicharra in Spanish. I know this because as we were looking at the shells and corpses of cicadas that one of my girls brought in (you go, GIRL!), one of my Spanish-speakers walked up and said with an authority that he does not have yet in English, "Chicharra." We all tried to roll our r's as well as he did and the more we said chicharra, the more we sounded like a bunch of cicadas in the trees. Say it! See what I mean?!?
I love that my students are bringing their passions to school already in the third week, and I love that we are adding first-language words to our "juicy" words we're collecting. When the one-third of my class who were gone for Eid on Friday return this week, we'll see if there are words from their language and their celebration that we can add to our list and learn.
Here's where we collect our "juicy" words:
This is the best solution for covering our classroom's mirror that I've ever come up with -- "Reflect on These JUICY Words." The classroom assistant has a pad of sticky notes, and whenever anyone come across a "juicy" word in the book they're reading or I'm reading aloud, in class discussion, overheard in a conversation, etc., they help the assistant put it on a note and post it on the mirror.
Every so often, I type the newest juicy words onto a blank page in the SmartBoard software. This is our electronic Word Wall! I've made each of the words on the word wall a piece of movable text so that we can sort the words, looking for similarities and differences, categories, parts of speech, prefixes, suffixes, etc.
Soon we'll need to make a second page, we've collected so many words. I can't wait to see how this Word Wall project develops. Out of all the ways I've tried to integrate my new SmartBoard into my teaching, this is my favorite so far.
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By: Elizabeth Moore,
on 11/23/2013
Blog: TWO WRITING TEACHERS (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Kelly Butcher,
on 11/15/2011
Blog: The Lemme Library (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Have you ever had one of those mornings? Ok, these are lucky problems- nothing that I SHOULD complain about. I have a job, food, a house, healthy kids... I don't complain very often, but thought I would give it a shot today! I present the last 3 hours in photos:
Getting the kids out the door in one piece is a chore I do not enjoy. So, when I drove past Starbucks and saw no line at the drive through, I had to go. My day was looking up- especially when I get a venti because they were out of grande cups. (Don't let a good Starbucks day throw you off your game!)
I get to school and several teachers are stressed out because the electricians rewired their Smartboards. Only a teacher finds this stressful... but trust me, they do. They work so hard every night to get ready for the next day and when things are messed up- they feel it... deeply. I help them get things back to normal and find this picture on my desk... drawn for me by my loving 8 year old child. What does is mean? Does she think I am a bad witch and this is her way of telling me to make a change? I am really reading into this... and this chick's eyes are just burning into my soul!
This is the little guy causing all the fuss around here! Not so bad, right? Kinda cute? This hooks to the Smartboard and then to your computer, reducing the number of chords hanging down and looking unsightly.
I love it... well, I loved it. Now it sits there staring at me... mocking me. (Keep reading).
Look at the picture below. Yes, it is a Smartboard. It is "my" Smartboard. I love it. I worship it. I treat it like royalty. Look at the picture again... do you see the hole? Yes. actually, 2 holes in my Smartboard. I am sure that it was an innocent mistake by the electricians and they probably didn't even know that it happened. Jeff at physical plant came right out this morning to look at it. Scott Electric will replace it for us, eventually.
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By: Mary Lee,
on 9/12/2010
Blog: A Year of Reading (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: word study, SmartBoard, Add a tag
Locust, or cicada, is chicharra in Spanish. I know this because as we were looking at the shells and corpses of cicadas that one of my girls brought in (you go, GIRL!), one of my Spanish-speakers walked up and said with an authority that he does not have yet in English, "Chicharra." We all tried to roll our r's as well as he did and the more we said chicharra, the more we sounded like a bunch of cicadas in the trees. Say it! See what I mean?!?
I love that my students are bringing their passions to school already in the third week, and I love that we are adding first-language words to our "juicy" words we're collecting. When the one-third of my class who were gone for Eid on Friday return this week, we'll see if there are words from their language and their celebration that we can add to our list and learn.
Here's where we collect our "juicy" words:
This is the best solution for covering our classroom's mirror that I've ever come up with -- "Reflect on These JUICY Words." The classroom assistant has a pad of sticky notes, and whenever anyone come across a "juicy" word in the book they're reading or I'm reading aloud, in class discussion, overheard in a conversation, etc., they help the assistant put it on a note and post it on the mirror.
Every so often, I type the newest juicy words onto a blank page in the SmartBoard software. This is our electronic Word Wall! I've made each of the words on the word wall a piece of movable text so that we can sort the words, looking for similarities and differences, categories, parts of speech, prefixes, suffixes, etc.
Soon we'll need to make a second page, we've collected so many words. I can't wait to see how this Word Wall project develops. Out of all the ways I've tried to integrate my new SmartBoard into my teaching, this is my favorite so far.
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I'd make another trip to Starbucks and then sit there and draw a picture of myself reading on the beach that says, "I'm a sand-wich!" It's good to stop and realize how crazy the things are that we deal with everyday!
Forgive me if this gets posted twice!
I would have headed back to Starbucks and sat there and drawn a picture of myself reading on a beach with the caption: "I'm a sand-wich!"
Isn't it amazing to stop and realize the craziness that we deal with on a daily basis? We do just have to keep calm and carry on! :)