Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Can't Get Enough of Reading!


Here are some great reading resources. These resources can be a great resource to share with parents also.

Remember Reading is Fundamental? The website reads books to students. There are reading logs, activities, games, and lesson plans. Parents will have to help students under 13 to join the RIF club.

We Give Books is a resource that teachers can use to read books on IWB (interactive white boards). Teachers will have to join (it is free) in order to read all the books. Here are some activities that go with this web site: http://www.wegivebooks.org/resources.The activity that I liked the best is an Information Text Scavenger Hunt.

Two websites you might be interested in looking at are ReadWorks and LearnZillion. These websites are correlated to common core. Teachers will have to register for both of these, but they are free. 

My very favorite online reading resource is Mrs. P Magic Library. When you first click on a story to have read to you, Mrs. P introduces the story and then makes a connection to it. I love listening to the way she reads the stories.

There are many more online reading resources that are free for teachers and students.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

It's So Fluffy ...

This morning I was scanning my Twitter feed and came across this tweet from @eol (Encyclopedia of Life): 


I must admit the first thing that came to my mind when reading the above tweet was a line from one of my favorite movies, "Despicable Me". Do you remember it?

http://youtu.be/SNLJDR-XbVY 
From Despicable Me: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323594/ 

I checked out the website: http://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_life/discuss/72157630109103478/. The Encyclopedia of Life has a contest for people to send in pictures of fluffy things. This got me to thinking about how this would be a fun activity to do in the classroom!

Here are some ideas that I thought of:
  • Have students take pictures of things that look like the alphabet, shapes, numbers, specific colors, etc.
     
  • Also, the idea above for something fluffy, something furry, something smooth, something sharp would reinforce those words with images.
     
  • Take several images to reinforce the concept of beginning, middle, end; for example, taking a picture of a piece of wrapped candy as the beginning, starting to unwrap the candy as the middle, the unwrapped candy as the end.

  • Taking pictures and then showing to the class and have students write what they think happened right before the image was taken or what happened next.

  • Take pictures of angles or other math concepts.
What are some ideas that you come up with?

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Weekly Diigo Links (weekly)

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Weekly Diigo Links (weekly)

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Weekly Diigo Links (weekly)

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