Glen Head & Sea Cliff-

Welcome to North Shore!

Title of Project: Welcome to North Shore!

Schools and Teachers

Glen Head and Sea Cliff Teachers: Lisa Daly and Marie Zilinski

ENL Proficiency Level | ENL Program | Standards | Technology

Entering, Emerging, Transitioning | Stand-alone | KSL1, KSL4, KSL5 | Flipgrid, Buncee, map

Assessments

Formative: The map students created about their favorite place with the key, observations of their speaking by how they used positional words and sentence stems, how well they could express their thoughts for the Buncee boards.

Summative: Flipgrid reflection of the project where they will explain what they have learned.

Description

Students first brainstormed different parts of their school building. They then identified their favorite place within their school building. Students created a detailed map of their favorite place in the school. They then created a Flipgrid the express their views on the location, and replied to other’s flipgrids. Finally, students were supported in creating a Buncee to display their work.

Content

Content: I can draw places from my school on a map and use a map key.

Language

Language: I can talk to my friends about my favorite part of my school.

Technology

Technology: I can share my thoughts on Flipgrid and respond to others.

Resources and Supporting Material

  • Buncee

  • Flipgrid

Procedure

  • Show Kids school vocabulary youtube video

  • Brainstorm favorite parts of our school first with a discussion then on a web

  • Took a building walk to visit our favorite parts

  • Choose our favorite part of the school building

  • Created a detailed map with a key

  • To scaffold maps showed a video of how to create a map with a key

  • Flipgrid to explain our map to support language we taught positional words and used sentence stems

  • Students replied to a student in another school

  • Students will create a Buncee with teacher support to display their work

  • Students will create a second Flipgrid explaining what they have learned

Reflection

We thought that Flipgrid was an easy and effective way to communicate between schools. Students were able to share a video and enjoyed watching others on Flipgrid sharing about their favorite part of their school. We found even with kindergarten they were able to share on flipgrid with teacher support to guide them when they spoke, it was nice to use the post-it feature to remind students while they shared. Students learned new vocabulary and worked on their speaking skills as well as writing when they created maps. Making the Buncee in the end was the most challenging part when working with kindergarten, but we did shared experiences to write together. We wished we had more materials which are in the school buildings and more time to work with the students on this because they really enjoyed it!