Great Things I Noticed This Week:
*Students used the app "Photo Card" to write parents a note about what they were proud of for 1st quarter and their goals for 2nd quarter. The teacher passed out their parents' email addresses so students could send it to parents straight from their iPads.
*Students begging for more reading time.
*Students bragging to me about how much they wrote in their stories (one student was at 5 pages and still planning to write more!)
Events Next Week:
Wednesday - Grade Level PLC Meetings (see "Nuts & Bolts" for details)
Thursday - I will be out of the building in the afternoon
Friday - Staff Social Lunch (1st grade/Bartlett/Kopfer)
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*Grade Level PLC meetings will focus on direct vocabulary instruction to build academic vocabulary. I will be sending out a link to a short screencast for you to watch before the grade level meetings. Our time in grade level meetings will be focused on grade level vocabulary lists.
*Follow-up to student iPad announcement: We need to make sure that we have an accurate list of iPad apps at each grade level for what will be put on student iPads when we change over their set up. I will resend out the google doc that we originally used and ask that each grade level make sure that what you want on iPads is on that list (with the exact app names). I will be putting a packet in each classroom teacher's mailbox of the apps that are currently on grade level iPads. Please use that as a guide to add to the google doc spreadsheet or take off apps that students are not currently using. Some apps take a lot of space and if they're not being used it is best to not have them. Please ask me if you have any questions about this.
Blogs, Tweets & Pins...Oh My!
*5 Creative Ways to Help Students with ADHD Thrive in the Classroom (I also enjoyed the Ted Talk video in this blog post...change the thinking of "fixing" ADHD to using it to help students thrive, because there are many pros to being ADHD!)
*@DrStephenJones A great teacher will look for ways to improve their instruction so their students understand. #edchat
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