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How May I Help You?
I love love love
love working
with all of you! I would love to plan something
specific with
you. Several of the schools now have a mobile cart. I would
love to plan
a lesson together. I would love to meet with you
first during your planning time to put the lesson together. Then
we can schedule a time to carry out the lesson.
PVES and
TES:
If you want to plan together we could meet in the
morning before school or after school.
AES and CES: You two are so close together.
Any Thursday or
Friday I could arrange to meet you. I have found that most of CES
wants my help with lessons in the afternoon. AES wants my help in
the morning plus their schedule has them on an ABC week. This has
been difficult since I was scheduled on a AB week so I have
decide to try and make every effort to be more flexible.
Maybe we can
get more lessons scheduled.
Email me if
you want to do a lesson together.
By the way, have I told you lately how much I love working
with you all?
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New
Lesson Development
Betsy Brown and I have worked
together
to create a second/third grade
differentiated technology lesson on cubic measurement based on the NTTI
method. Please ask
us for a copy!
She and I are also putting together a
differentiated lesson on
the Civil War for 4th and 5th grade. We will let you know when
this is completed.
There are new Inspiration Documents as well as
scavenger hunts for the
Revolutionary War for 4th and 5th grade.
Ask me for the second
grade sort on China and Egypt. Last year Gail Moore did a great
Inspiration template on Cells.
I developed a guided notetaking PowerPoint
lesson for Third and Fourth Grade on Habitats.
The Phases of the Moon is coming up. I
have just published an NTTI lesson on this SOL. I have a
conference in March to present this lesson. I would love an
opportunity to practice with students before presenting my lesson.
Most of our lessons are posted on the school's
server. The scavenger hunts are posted on
our portal. If you would like to take a look
at any of these lessons,
let me know. They may give you an idea of what you can ask from
me.
Staff
Developments
The Staff
Development
on PowerPoint Games that was repeated went very well. Julie
Steele and I have another workshop on Creating Web Quests Thursday,
February 16th at the High School
Gail Moore and I have Staff Developments coming up
in March on Excel and Creating Web Pages. Check the County Web
Site to sign up for these.
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Lesson
Ideas
This
month's highlight:
United Streaming
United Streaming is a service purchased for us by the EdTech
Consortium. From United Streaming you can download SOL based
video clips that will coordinate with your lesson. You also have
a a library of clip art from the videos that you can use for games,
flashcards, or worksheets. While you are logged on, check out the
daily calendar. Clicking on the daily calendar gives you a mini
history lesson by highlighting news based clips of events that occurred
on that day. Ask me or email me if you do not know the login
information for your school. I can also help you by downloading
clips and burning them to a cd for you. If you wish for me to do
the downloading and burning, please send me the SOL that you are
working on.
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Literacy
Link: How can I use my classroom computer to support Literacy?
This month: Strategic Reading Tools
using
Inspiration
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Activate Prior
Knowledge using graphics to . Ex. reading a story
about a farm. What things are found on a farm?
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Question-Answer
Relationship- QAR- Literal to Inferential- In a text box
write a text in large font size such as, "The house was red."
Provide 3 separate bubbles with a different answer for a multiple
choice. The choices could be red, yellow and blue. Ask the
question, "What was the color of the house?" Student moves
the correct bubble, red, over the top of the word red in the text
box. ALSO provide answers in circles. Students are asked a
question & choose correct answer. If correct, change to their
team's shape. Most shapes at the end win.
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Graphic Organizer-
Well, that's a natural for Kidspiration.
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KWHL Plus-
What we
Know, What we Want to find out, How we will find out, What we Learned.-
Make the graphic organizer.
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SQ3R-
Survey,
Question, Read, Recite and Review. Create a flow chart with
Inspiration to guide students through process. Make a handout
for students to check off as each step is completed.
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Visual Reading
Guide-
In a text box write a short piece for students to read and add a
graphic. Ask students why the picture is important to the piece.
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Fix up Strategies
- With Inspiration list strategies that students have been taught to
use. Make a hard copy for each student. As student reads
put a check in each bubble of the strategy the child used.
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Visualization
- In
a text box write sentences such as, "When it got cool, the tree turned
to a bright orange. Then the apple changed to a golden
yellow." Then provide a tree and the apple on the screen.
Ask students if these are the right color according to what was
read. Change the colors to fit the sentences.
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Basic Signal
Words
- Provide super groupers which are labeled Who, What, Where, Why, When,
How. Let students put graphics in correct super grouper.
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Advanced Signal
Words
- Compose a piece using advanced signal words. Then put signal
words in a bubble each. Students take the words and put them over
the words in the piece. Read the words as they place them.
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