Today's journey has been
on the internet. I decorated and finished My You Tube Channel.
I am very pleased with it. I have started but not finished my collection. I enjoy putting hyperlinks into my lesson plans. With a collection I could also just have my channel up and open and click on the playlist I need. I can hardly wait to collect more!
Then, on my Facebook page Smart Board Lessons ( I added some tabs (including a You Tube tab), some of them are even custom tabs. They include my Pinterest boards, Teachers Pay Teachers, Lilly's Grace, my Teacher's Notebook store, and my Twitter. Of course this blog is represented and on my Google page everything is connected also. I am feeling very accomplished.
My next hurdle is to conquer the teacher's website provided by my employer.
To my blog I added some buttons from a couple of my favorite bloggers. Not all of my favorites. Not yet, there is more to come. If you are just roaming around the internet please check out some of my links. I would even welcome some suggestions! For now, I bid everyone good night.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
Smart Board Lessons
In December I started my own Teachers Pay Teachers store. When I first started the store I viewed myself as tech savvy. Then, I began reading the forums and some of the truly tech savvy were sharing their knowledge. So, here I am now. Two stores and a blog. I am not a millionaire. But I am a much happier person and teacher. My students are also happier and enjoy the knowledge I have gained because they get first hand benefits. They enjoy the things I make for them much more now because of the tricks I have learned from my TPT friends. I have also learned from Google and You Tube. It is just like Dr. Seuss says "Oh, the things you can do!"
My unsolicited advice for today: If you don't know how to do it, Google it or search You Tube, the truth is out there!
Here are a few pics I took of my kids enjoying an end of the year review I made for math:
My unsolicited advice for today: If you don't know how to do it, Google it or search You Tube, the truth is out there!
Here are a few pics I took of my kids enjoying an end of the year review I made for math:
As you can see, we have all been having a blast with my new skills!
You can find this presentation in my Teachers Pay teacher store at the following link:
End of the Year Math Review
Some of my third grade friends say this would also be
a good beginning of third grade review.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Geometry and Spaghetti
Pinterest Pass or Fail?
I guess it is perspective. It wasn't picture perfect but I thought what happened was great. I had read an idea where another teacher used spaghetti to build geometric shapes. I have often used toothpicks and marshmallows, but I was very interested in trying something new. I explained the activity to the children and mentioned that breaking the spaghetti might be a good idea. I used one pound of spaghetti and two bags of marshmallows, and let her rip! And yes, yes I would do it again, except I would give them more time and more materials. Here are a few examples of what happened:
I guess it is perspective. It wasn't picture perfect but I thought what happened was great. I had read an idea where another teacher used spaghetti to build geometric shapes. I have often used toothpicks and marshmallows, but I was very interested in trying something new. I explained the activity to the children and mentioned that breaking the spaghetti might be a good idea. I used one pound of spaghetti and two bags of marshmallows, and let her rip! And yes, yes I would do it again, except I would give them more time and more materials. Here are a few examples of what happened:
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Failure
One of the toughest things to convey to a child is that it is OK to fail. I am not certain that I have ever instilled in any of my students
that I really mean it when I say "do something! Even if it is wrong!"
It is the student with the blank page that is the hardest to help. As a teacher, I don't have anything to go on. When a child does something incorrectly, then a teacher can see what they need to do to help. They can understand the child's thinking.
Many of the students will learn to relax and try. Eventually one of the things that child learns is they understood more than they thought and after many rounds of success, confidence is born.
But for the students who insist on having a blank page, I am trying to constantly convey this message. I have several very corny, and some over the top things I tell them to try to get them to always take chances and let them know it is safe to fail.
So I was very excited when I found this clip on you tube and hoped that it might be something new and hip. Something, that I wouldn't have to dust off to reach the kids, or not too much anyway.
Meet The Robinsons
that I really mean it when I say "do something! Even if it is wrong!"
It is the student with the blank page that is the hardest to help. As a teacher, I don't have anything to go on. When a child does something incorrectly, then a teacher can see what they need to do to help. They can understand the child's thinking.
Many of the students will learn to relax and try. Eventually one of the things that child learns is they understood more than they thought and after many rounds of success, confidence is born.
But for the students who insist on having a blank page, I am trying to constantly convey this message. I have several very corny, and some over the top things I tell them to try to get them to always take chances and let them know it is safe to fail.
So I was very excited when I found this clip on you tube and hoped that it might be something new and hip. Something, that I wouldn't have to dust off to reach the kids, or not too much anyway.
Meet The Robinsons
It is short and sweet. It was funny and engaging. Did it do the trick? Today? Maybe not. I read somewhere once a person had to hear something 30 times before it stuck with them. I think it is actually more than that.
But I shall keep moving forward.
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