Book Reports and Reviews
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Poetry Month
We are combining art, music and poetry.
Some are digital some are not.
I think they are simply lovely.
We hope they show you our special kinds of thoughts.
Using Evernote, an iPad app, the children generated a 10 word list they felt described themselves. They then had to ranked their words from 4-10. These words were then used in Tagxedo Online to generate their individual word cloud. Enjoy some insight into how they see themselves. I know I learned a bit more about my students!
Chance Poems
Students were asked to pick a topic, find as many words as they could from magazines about their topic ( more words greater CHANCE of making an interesting poem) create it & then read their Chance poem like a poet with feeling.
Some added nature sounds. Well done!
Haiku- a Digital Nature Poem following a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
Students used 3 Apps! Pic Collage , Doceri and Nature Sounds Apps
ZK Trees |
CW Dogs |
AN Fruit |
JL Cats |
CO Ants |
PO Dogs |
NR Camping |
EH Dogs |
WS Fish |
Combining art, poetry & fun
This first poem is called Someday. It is a simple series of someday statements expressing a student's wish. Final draft is written on an acrylic painting.
Super Me!
After listening and learning Lenka's song Everything At Once the children made their own simile poem Super Me!
Author Study - Theodor Seuss Geisel
ZKEE |
JLCW |
WS |
AN |
How the students could help the lorax
A new student joined us for a day. He had so many wise things to say.
A persons a person no matter how small. Dr. Seuss
Click on the cat to see our video!
Story Cubes- retelling a silly story with a toss of 5 dice. A creative and fun way to sequence and tell a story. We have used these numerous ways , whole group, small group and now individually!
WS Story |
CW Story |
Weekly song and vocabulary work has gone BIG!
My Smart Board got set up and my room got reorganized.
Mystery Box Book Reports are here.
January
Writing & Reading Fluently
Trapped in a Snow Globe !
After going through the complete writing process to final draft each child recorded themselves reading their personal story with feeling using Doceri!
It is fun to listen to their animated voices as they tried to read with inflection to make their stories more interesting for the listener.Well done room 15!
NR Snow Globe StoryEH Snow Globe StoryCO Snow Globe Story |
EE StoryZK StoryJL Snow Globe StoryCW Snow Globe StoryListening to each other's story & making comments |
WS Snow Globe StoryPO Snow Globe StoryAN Snow Globe Story |
Student made books with Scribble Press which we saved in ibooks
to share with classmates. We are building quite a library!
The children have made numerous books about a variety of things using the Scribble Press APP . This is a simple and flexible book making App. This is a screen shot of our class books so far. Their books can all be viewed in ibooks as well as be printed or viewed as PDFs. It is wonderful to see the children become so excited knowing they have made a published book for their classmates to see.
RUDOLF UNIT
Rudolf Mad Lib songs using Educreations App
Listen to the children SING their silly songs. Lots of giggles in class that day!
So cute ;-)
Rudolf the Red Tailed Dog - PORudlof the red-bellied Panda - EE |
Rudolf the Red Tailed Whale- JLRudolf the red feathered Robin - WS |
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Rudolf the Red Eared Tiger- ZK |
Rudolf the Red Eyed Donkey - CW |
Rudolf the red leg Chihuahua EH |
Rudolf the Red Furry Dog -AN |