ONE DAY!!!

This week in class there was only one day of class. Me and about four other girls showed up for class since it was the week of Thanksgiving. I decided to attend class so that I could continue to work on the things that are do at the end of the semester. I am very close to being done with these things, and still have two weeks to go so this makes me excited! In class I worked on my brochure. I started this a couple of weeks ago but because I only saved it in PDF I had to redo the whole thing. I did my brochure on Africa. I talked about how we will have guest choreographers come teach the children a dance, how we will have foods from the different countries in Africa, also how we will color a map of the different countries and learn about them. Then for the end reward I said that I was going to take the children on a virtual safari, and teach them facts about African animals. I put some pictures on there of Africa, it turned out really cute, I like it. Then Thursday was Thanksgiving so no class. It was a short week, but I got things done so I was excited about that!

GETTING THE PROJECTS DONE!

This week in technology we continued to work on the projects that are do at the end of the semester. On Tuesday the thing that I worked on was my newsletter. I enjoyed doing this! My newsletter consisted of two sutdents of the month a boy and a girl. I just made up things about them and gave them a fake name, then I told the reason why I chose them to be student of the month. Then I talked about a tool that we are starting to learn in class which I chose power point, and I just talked about what we are going to do with that. Then I made up a field trip to the zoo, and a Easter Egg Hunt! This was a lot of fun to do, just to pretend like you are a teacher, and just think of things that one day I wan to do in myclassroom! I added lots of pictures to it, it turned out really cute I was excited about it. Then I was going to finish my brochure but I only saved it as a PDF, and I cant make changes on that so I will have to start over. But it's it all good it will work out. Today in class I worked on my ten classroom rules. I worked on this with Libby and Aubree, it was fun to think of rules that we would like to have. I tried to think of rules that I really feel strongly about implying in my classroom one day. We had a lot of fun doing this together! We found cute pictures to add to the rules, which helped a lot in making it colorful and fun. I really had a great time in class today working on this, and also listening to music and talking. We all had a great time.
All I need to do now is finish my brochure, my google website, and then one more tool article. I am getting close to being done and that makes me excited!

WOW the semester is close to being over !!!!!

So this week in class, we our assignments for the rest of the semester which so far I have enjoyed doing. We have to make a flyer, brochure, classroom rules, a google classroom website, and tool articles. All of these things are great things to do because one day I can use them in my classroom. So far I have done a brochure and a flyer. For my flyer I did a sledding fieldtrip. This turned out really cute. There is snowflakes on the side of it. It just looks wintery and fun! This is a great tool to learn so that in my class one day when we do go on a field trip, I can make a fun flyer telling my parents and students about the fieldtrip that is to come. It is also a good way to put out the information what kids need etc. in a professional manor. The other thing that I have done is the brochure. This has to be on a concept about what you are learning in the classroom. Since I want to teach second grade, I chose to do it on Africa since that is a subject that is taught in second grade.I just talked about the activities we will do and then put some pictures on there. This is a great way to get children excited about the upcoming units, and to get parents excited.
I am excited to finish up these projects and to see the outcome. I can't wait for the day that I can use these things in my classroom. It is also crazy to think that the semester is almost over, we only have these assignments left to do and then we are done CRAZY!

KIDSPIRATION!!!!

This week we had the chance to play on Kidspiration which I loved and really enjoyed this! I think that it is a great tool that I will want to use with my kids in my classroom one day.
The first thing that i liked about it is that you as a teacher can make your own activities that you want your children to do pertaining to the curriculum that you are learning at the time. It also gives the children a chance to listen to the word that is in the activity. This is a nice tool becasue if children cant read then they are able to hear the word, and learn how to read it. It also has the tool of letting you see the definition of a word. This is a great thing to have to teach children vocabulary and the defintion of the vocabulary. With tha activites that teachers can make themselves you can make ven daigrams, pictures and add the words to them. It has a lot of great tools to use to make activities.
I had the chance to play around with a lot of the activities that Kidspiration already had made. This is a tool that I want to intergrate into my classroom. It had great activities to learn about many different subjects such as reading and writing. Some of the activities that I want to use is learning about adjectives, gives you the definiton of adjectives, and words that are adjectives. They also have a great activity in there to teach children how to write their first report. When I have children write a report in my classroom, I will do this activity with them to help them learn. It also teaches children how to say their beggining sounds, they can listen to them right their and learn how to say them. It also had great activities to do for math. Teaches children about adding, adding with regrouping, alomost halves, balancing, bar graphs, teaching chuildren how to measure things, in this case it was furniture which helped them learn about incehs.and many more. These activities are great to use so children can play around with the concepts of math and help them to learn it better. They had great science activities as well such as: learning about the life cycle, animal habitiats (you drag animals into the habitats that they live in) teaching children the different habitats that animals live in. They also have an activity that teaches children about gravity and how it works. Another subject that is taught is soical studies. I really enjoyed these activitis and since social stuides is my favorite subject I am looking forward to using these activties in my classroom. One of the activities was looking at a map of the United States and putting the name of the state with it.This is a good way for children to learn the states instead of just coloring a map. They also had an activity to do with the three branches of government. This is a good thing for children to learn because many people do not learn this. There was another activity comparing the Colonists and the Native Americans with a ven diagram. Great way to see the differences and the things that were the same that these two groups did. I also enjoyed putting the different holidays in the months that they were in. I actually did not know when some of these holidays took place. Therefore it will be a great activity for children to learn these holidays. Then I think it would be fun to do an activity in class where we celebrate the holidays that we usually dont celebrate. There also was an activity that taught students how to eat a healthy balanced meal. This is so important for students to learn, because so many of them are malnourished these days. I would like to have the children do this activity and then bring the healthy foods they learn about in the classroom, and let them realize that they are delicious to!
Kidspiration is such a great program to use in the classroom. It gives children great activities to do, to learn so many subjects, and learn to comprehend them. It also gives teachers excellent ideas to use for lesson plans. They can look up an activity that they want to do, and then create a lesson plan from that, incorporating hands on learnig. I really enjoyed playing with Kidspiration, and can't wait to use it in my classroom!