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March 5th- March Activities
March 5th- March Activities
1. The St. Patrick's Day graphing project is a global project where classroom chart marshmallows in boxes of Lucky Charms. Then they chart and share the data with schools all over the world by registering on this site. On the site, you will also find ELA, Math and tech activities that pair well with St. Patrick's Day. Register now!
2. Breakouts are a fun way to review a unit, reinforce skills or introduce a new concept in your classroom. You can find all the ASD breakouts here to use or tweak or make your own! 3rd grade teachers, there is already a 3rd grade St. Patrick's Day breakout you can use here!
3. Seesaw has many activities in the Activity Library that are already made and ready to share with your class. Simply browse the Activity Library and search for a topic/grade of your choice and then share with your class! Kids go to the lightbulb to get to activities and then click the green add button to do the activity.
As always, let me know how and if I can help.
March 13th- TAG
March 13th- TAG
Whether your students give video, text or in person feedback to a peer, good compliments are something we all strive for. In the case of online feedback, it is good digital citizenship practice for students to be reminded of all the things that make up a quality comment. One of the ways to do this is by playing TAG with your students.
Through an anchor chart, paper and pencil practice and then finally online comments, students can practice the game of TAG. Even parents can get in on the fun with this informational parent letter that you can send home. Your comments on Seesaw posts will never have been better!
Click here for a slideshow to share with your class and gather more information.
March 20th- Triple Tech Tip
March 20th- Triple Tech Tip
WI resources
WI resources
The state of Wisconsin has 2 great resources to help solidify Wisconsin concepts and map skills in grades 3-5.
1. Into the Map is a website like Into the Book (for those of you familiar with that). This website, however, is geared towards grades 3-5. It focuses on student map skills by issuing several game style challenges for various Wisconsin map skills. Students can create a unique login to save their progress.
2. UW Madison's game lab helped come up with Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case as a game to help students understand more about the capitol. This game would be a fantastic intro lesson for 4th graders before they go to on the state capitol field trip and it would also be a good review of Wisconsin government and history for all ages.
Either of these options can be pushed out in Seesaw or Google Classroom for students to use at a specific time or at home.
Email Distribution Lists
Email Distribution Lists
If you have ever want to make life easier in the Gmail world, try to create a distribution list. That way you only have to type one name to send an email to a list of people. See how in the video to the right.
Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling
When students publish a piece of writing, do you sometimes want to spice it up? Well, there are several digital storytelling tools that make shared writing a seamless and easy way to add something fun to your writing block. Check out these resources by Sustainable Teaching.
Do you have a love-hate relationship with Post It notes?
If so, then I have the app for you!
Post It notes are a must have on any school supply list. They can come in handy with:
- Brainstorming ideas for writing (Think Lucy!)
- Showing math thinking
- Peer feedback
- Positive messages
- Reflecting
- Collaborating as a group
- Story maps
- Mini Me self portraits in art
- Parking Lots
- Anchor charts
- Student goal setting
- (Just to name a few)
The downside of them is that what do you do to ensure the message is saved, shared and still there the next day when you need it (since these little notes seem to disappear, loose stick after a few days or fly off the desk with the wind).
The Post It note app allows you to take a picture of all the sticky notes and sort, save, edit and organize them on a digital board. From there you can share these out. You can zoom in on each note or look at the overall picture. This can then be shared in many different formats including downloading it as a PDF or JPEG, emailing it or sharing it with another person with the app. Here is a short video showing what it can do!
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