Elementary sites

Great elementary site from Kathy!

Website

Another great website is..

teachertipster.com

The Kissing Hand

A Funny!!

Many times this week I felt like this!!

Websites to use this year

These are the five websites I will use next year:

1.  livebinders.com
This is a wonderful resource to use in the classroom...SOO many useful ideas from many teachers..games/worksheets/activities both on and offline

2.  voki.com
Excellent for my students to use and for me...I will use it for a morning message each day. Students can use it to explain a new concept learned.

3.  glogster.com
Jill and I will take turns making "fun" posters to use for upcoming events.

4.  pinterest.com
I have already used a plithera of info on pinterest since the spring and have MANY things to make this summer for my class.

5. classdijo.com
I want to try this for my class this year... wish I had it last year!! Can't wait to "manage" my class!

TedEd Greater Than Less Than

Flipping Classroom
http://ed.ted.com/on/tv3wthG4

Glog on Butterfly Life Cycle

Ways to use podcast in my room

There are different ways I will use podcasts in my classroom next year.. Spelling words...making words Read Kissing Hand..and students will tell how they felt the first day of school Read Little Engine That Could..students will write a class book and read it and show their pictures from their page Use for a morning message

Flipping classroom....Next day Greater Less Than work in school

Flipping classroom..homework: Greater Than Less Than video

Ms. Sunshine promotes warm fuzzies!

Magic Wizard Voki

Voki with Sweet Dee

Video for CC

The end of my ISpeech....

We will need more professional development courses to learn about Common Core. We will need to get more technology in the schools to document and construct our curriculum. In our school this past year, we used CC for our Math series. They took away our Math books, and gave us a general guideline of what to teach each quarter. It was a virtual train wreck..but a “work in progress”.. as they said! Each day was a hands-on activity with the students. I tried to pair them up with students who were pretty much understanding the standard that day. For next year, they have revamped our Math curriculum and it should be an easier year to teach. We will have 1 week to teach each standard! Next year we will begin the “train wreck” called Language Arts Common Core!! Wish us luck!!

Common Core ideas..good or bad!

I think the LMS articles were interesting to read and seeing how it can be used in the classroom was pretty cool. It would be fun to be in a HS class that is using this type of course. But in a lower elementary class where our children cannot read yet, it would be very difficult.

1st CC Blog

I certainly hope I learn alot at class this week...and understand everything I learn!!!