Sunday, October 21, 2012
Fall Break is Almost Over
Fall Break is almost over and we will be getting back into the school routine on Tuesday. If your child needs a little something to look forward to please show the picture below to them. We have some new additions to our crew and they brought a new book to share. The crew will be very excited to see this. See you soon!
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Happy Fall Break!
I hope you are all enjoying your Fall Break. It is nice to have a break at this time of year when the colors are so beautiful and the weather is crisp. I hope you are enjoying lots of time outside.Today I added the last batch of ShowMes that were created the week before break. You might want to check out our KidBlog page to view them.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Crew News October 5, 2012
Boot Camp
Boot Camp was today. Enjoy the VoiceThread (without voices) below! If you get this post by email, you will need to go directly to the blog to view the slideshow.
IA
Our IA after the break is PE. Please help your child remember to wear appropriate footwear.
Homework
No homework over Fall Break. Enjoy some great books with your child.
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher workday.
Have a wonderful break!
Boot Camp was today. Enjoy the VoiceThread (without voices) below! If you get this post by email, you will need to go directly to the blog to view the slideshow.
IA
Our IA after the break is PE. Please help your child remember to wear appropriate footwear.
Homework
No homework over Fall Break. Enjoy some great books with your child.
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher workday.
Have a wonderful break!
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Crew News October 4, 2012
Then and Now
Below is our first Voice Thread of the year that includes our own voices. It is a collection of the things we learned when we interviewed our parents and grandparents about what life was like for them when they were our age. If you subscribe to the blog and get this by email, you will need to go directly to the blog to watch this Voice Thread. Be sure the sound is up on your computer so that you can hear our voices. Enjoy!
To view a large version of this VoiceThread, go here.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.4 More Odd and Even Numbers
Boot Camp is tomorrow. Our crew will be at Boot Camp from 9:15 am to 11:15 am. All students will need to bring a lunch from home tomorrow. There will be no school lunches tomorrow. Your child can continue to bring in non-perishable food items and collect pledges all week.
Be sure to dress warmly and have rain gear!
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher work day.
Below is our first Voice Thread of the year that includes our own voices. It is a collection of the things we learned when we interviewed our parents and grandparents about what life was like for them when they were our age. If you subscribe to the blog and get this by email, you will need to go directly to the blog to watch this Voice Thread. Be sure the sound is up on your computer so that you can hear our voices. Enjoy!
To view a large version of this VoiceThread, go here.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.4 More Odd and Even Numbers
Boot Camp is tomorrow. Our crew will be at Boot Camp from 9:15 am to 11:15 am. All students will need to bring a lunch from home tomorrow. There will be no school lunches tomorrow. Your child can continue to bring in non-perishable food items and collect pledges all week.
Be sure to dress warmly and have rain gear!
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher work day.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Crew News October 3, 2012
Sign Language
Ms. Wendy has been teaching our crew some sign language. She used to work with hearing impaired students so she knows sign language. We love learning new signs. We know quite a few already. Below are a couple of videos taken on Monday afternoon of some of the signs we have learned so far. (If you get these posts by email, you will need to go directly to the blog to view the videos.)
Food Drive Chart
We have been keeping track of how many food items that we are bringing in. Ms. Wendy made this nice chart to help us keep a tally of our items. This ties in directly with what we have been learning in math.
Library
We have library tomorrow. Please help your child remember to bring his or her library books to school tomorrow.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.3 Number-Line Hops
Boot Camp is this Friday. Our crew will be at Boot Camp from 9:15 am to 11:15 am. All students will need to bring a lunch from home on Friday. There will be no school lunches that day. Your child can continue to bring in non-perishable food items and collect pledges all week.
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher work day.
Ms. Wendy has been teaching our crew some sign language. She used to work with hearing impaired students so she knows sign language. We love learning new signs. We know quite a few already. Below are a couple of videos taken on Monday afternoon of some of the signs we have learned so far. (If you get these posts by email, you will need to go directly to the blog to view the videos.)
Food Drive Chart
We have been keeping track of how many food items that we are bringing in. Ms. Wendy made this nice chart to help us keep a tally of our items. This ties in directly with what we have been learning in math.
Library
We have library tomorrow. Please help your child remember to bring his or her library books to school tomorrow.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.3 Number-Line Hops
Boot Camp is this Friday. Our crew will be at Boot Camp from 9:15 am to 11:15 am. All students will need to bring a lunch from home on Friday. There will be no school lunches that day. Your child can continue to bring in non-perishable food items and collect pledges all week.
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher work day.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Crew News October 2, 2012
ShowMe's
We have had a chance to begin to create some ShowMe's. We are using the ShowMe app on our iPads to teach others about things we are learning. We have several new ShowMe's and most of them have been on math topics. I have posted a few examples below for you to check out. I have also added these to each student's individual blog so be sure to check out our Kidblog page and give these students a comment or two. They would love to hear from you - you may comment on any child's blog. ShowMe's are also a great way for me to be able to see exactly what a child understands about a concept and any misunderstandings that they may have. I love being able to listen to them share their thinking. (If you get this post by email, you will need to go directly to the blog to view the ShowMe's.)
Cheyenne show us how to count nickels and pennies.
Jonathan also shows us how to count coins.
Owen shows us how to make tally marks.
Sophia shows us how to count coins.
Charlie shows us how to count by 5s.
Reese shows us how to count by 5s.
Abby shows us how to count by 10s.
Matthew shows us how to count by 2s.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.2 Odd and Even Numbers
Boot Camp is this Friday. Our crew will be at Boot Camp from 9:15 am to 11:15 am. All students will need to bring a lunch from home on Friday. There will be no school lunches that day. Your child can continue to bring in non-perishable food items and collect pledges all week.
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher work day.
We have had a chance to begin to create some ShowMe's. We are using the ShowMe app on our iPads to teach others about things we are learning. We have several new ShowMe's and most of them have been on math topics. I have posted a few examples below for you to check out. I have also added these to each student's individual blog so be sure to check out our Kidblog page and give these students a comment or two. They would love to hear from you - you may comment on any child's blog. ShowMe's are also a great way for me to be able to see exactly what a child understands about a concept and any misunderstandings that they may have. I love being able to listen to them share their thinking. (If you get this post by email, you will need to go directly to the blog to view the ShowMe's.)
Cheyenne show us how to count nickels and pennies.
Jonathan also shows us how to count coins.
Owen shows us how to make tally marks.
Sophia shows us how to count coins.
Charlie shows us how to count by 5s.
Reese shows us how to count by 5s.
Abby shows us how to count by 10s.
Matthew shows us how to count by 2s.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.2 Odd and Even Numbers
Boot Camp is this Friday. Our crew will be at Boot Camp from 9:15 am to 11:15 am. All students will need to bring a lunch from home on Friday. There will be no school lunches that day. Your child can continue to bring in non-perishable food items and collect pledges all week.
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher work day.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Crew News October 1, 2012
Blogging
We are blogging! Each student in our crew now has their own blog. They are all very excited about this so I am sure that you have heard all about it by now. Many of them are even blogging from home. I love this because it shows just how excited they are about it. All of their posts and comments on their posts are moderated by me. This means that nothing gets published to the internet without my approval. We would love to have some comments from you all. Please feel free to visit our blog site and comment on any blog - not just your child's blog. Remember, all comments are moderated by me so your comment won't show up until I approve it. This just keeps advertisements and junk messages off of our site. Feel free to share the link to our blogs with grandparents and other family members and friends. Ms. Noreene has been reading and commenting on our blogs, too. Be sure to notice that there are a couple of pages of posts so far. We have so much to say! Below are a few facts about our new blogging experience that I thought you might be interested in:
• My purposes for introducing blogging were to: increase the motivation to write, provide the students with an authentic audience for their writing, allow for conversations about and feedback on their writing through comments, make connections with others, have a place to share their thoughts and ideas and learn some basic computer literacy skills. I believe we are meeting these purposes and more.
• I purposely taught the students just the basic things that they would need to know in order to navigate around in Kidblogs and to create a new post. I hope that they will begin to explore and learn on their own and then teach each other. We will also have brief sessions on new features that they can try on their blogs as time goes on.
• There are still many more things I would like to do with our blogs but I am going to let the process evolve naturally so I am not sure how many of these we will accomplish. Things I would like to do include: have students take pictures at school to add to their blogs, connect with another first grade class from another part of the country or world that blogs and read each others’ blogs and comment (I know of several classes we could eventually connect with), learn to embed video, create posts with a specific content related purpose, do more peer editing before we publish and so on.
Feel free to drop by our crew blogs and learn more about us and add a comment or two. You can get to our blogs on the Resources page of this blog. Click on Kidblogs once you are there. You can also find a link to our blogs on the right sidebar of this blog or you can go directly to this link:
http://kidblog.org/MsJillsCrew12-13/
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.1 Patterns
Boot Camp is this Friday. Our crew will be at Boot Camp from 9:15 am to 11:15 am. All students will need to bring a lunch from home on Friday. There will be no school lunches that day. Your child can continue to bring in non-perishable food items and collect pledges all week.
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher work day.
We are blogging! Each student in our crew now has their own blog. They are all very excited about this so I am sure that you have heard all about it by now. Many of them are even blogging from home. I love this because it shows just how excited they are about it. All of their posts and comments on their posts are moderated by me. This means that nothing gets published to the internet without my approval. We would love to have some comments from you all. Please feel free to visit our blog site and comment on any blog - not just your child's blog. Remember, all comments are moderated by me so your comment won't show up until I approve it. This just keeps advertisements and junk messages off of our site. Feel free to share the link to our blogs with grandparents and other family members and friends. Ms. Noreene has been reading and commenting on our blogs, too. Be sure to notice that there are a couple of pages of posts so far. We have so much to say! Below are a few facts about our new blogging experience that I thought you might be interested in:
• My purposes for introducing blogging were to: increase the motivation to write, provide the students with an authentic audience for their writing, allow for conversations about and feedback on their writing through comments, make connections with others, have a place to share their thoughts and ideas and learn some basic computer literacy skills. I believe we are meeting these purposes and more.
• I purposely taught the students just the basic things that they would need to know in order to navigate around in Kidblogs and to create a new post. I hope that they will begin to explore and learn on their own and then teach each other. We will also have brief sessions on new features that they can try on their blogs as time goes on.
• There are still many more things I would like to do with our blogs but I am going to let the process evolve naturally so I am not sure how many of these we will accomplish. Things I would like to do include: have students take pictures at school to add to their blogs, connect with another first grade class from another part of the country or world that blogs and read each others’ blogs and comment (I know of several classes we could eventually connect with), learn to embed video, create posts with a specific content related purpose, do more peer editing before we publish and so on.
Feel free to drop by our crew blogs and learn more about us and add a comment or two. You can get to our blogs on the Resources page of this blog. Click on Kidblogs once you are there. You can also find a link to our blogs on the right sidebar of this blog or you can go directly to this link:
http://kidblog.org/MsJillsCrew12-13/
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.1 Patterns
Boot Camp is this Friday. Our crew will be at Boot Camp from 9:15 am to 11:15 am. All students will need to bring a lunch from home on Friday. There will be no school lunches that day. Your child can continue to bring in non-perishable food items and collect pledges all week.
No school on October 22nd. This will be a teacher work day.
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