Family Album

These are pictures of my family and some pictures of our family and close friends on vacation.
I had a lot of fun making this family album. It was fast and easy to do. Anyone could do this. This is a program that even second graders could be taught how to do with supervision.

Creating a My Summer Vacation Book

Students will use the website bookr to create a book about their summer vacation.
Students will compose their own text and add pictures to tell about their summer vacation. Students will be able to read about what their classmates did during the summer. This project can be used to create any type of book.

I really liked this program and I am going to have my students use it when making their own books after reading a story called Henry and Mudge. My daughter liked it so much that we went on the website and already made a couple of books herself.

Emperor Penguin Facts

After reading a nonfiction text titled, The Emperor's Egg, the students will use Tux Paint and create a picture and write a fact that they learned about Emperor penguins. The students will share their facts and pictures with their classmates.

Cycles Presentation

This presentation is to introduce 2nd graders to different types of cycles that are man made and natural. The presentation will be an introduction to the unit on space (moon, Earth, and Sun. The students will read the presentation, help the teacher change the slides and turn and talk to their neighbors at different points of the presentation. Students will be able to go back to my blog to view the presentation as many times as they would like.

Google docs is so easy to use and I learned a lot about how to locate pictures from the Internet from my own son. I would have my students come up with other ideas that we are studying so that we could make more presentations like this. We would be able to share them with other schools and classrooms in our own school.

Getting to Know You

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During the first days of school the students will complete this survey and we will use this information to get to know each other better and compare and contrast students in the classroom.

Goggle docs was very simple to use and I like the different kinds of forms. This is something I would like to use with my students because it is all done online instead of copying the sheet on the Xerox machine. I also like how you can make a spreadsheet to keep track of the responses the students give.

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