Digital Learning Day 2016

Digital Learning Day 2016!

Today began with sharing our love of reading with our 4K reading buddies.  They visited our room for the first time and we were so excited to begin making their digital stories about our books we were reading to them!

 

 

The students listened to the story The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires and then they wrote about their most magnificent thing they have ever built, made, cooked or helped with.  The students created a Google Document and typed it up.  Next they used Little Bird Tales to draw a image of their "Magnificent Thing".  Finally they uploaded the image to their Google Document.

 

My Most Magnificent Thing by Vivian

 

My Most Magnificent Thing by Kali    My Most Magnificent Thing by Emma

A Great Digital Learning Day 2016!

An Absolutely Amazing First Week of School!

IT HAS BEEN A GREAT WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL WEEK!

We are all excited about being OWLs!  Outstanding, Working, Learning Students.

This week the students have been making their own snacks and enjoying the creativity and taste! Please check your child’s folder for a note about Snack Sign-Up.

Ask your child which OWL snack was their favorite?

On the second day of school one of my students ask me, “When are we going to have Daily 5?”  These students love Literacy!  

Our First Family Project “Owl” About Me Craftivity excited all students both when presenting or listening!

Would you like to be a Mystery Reader in our classroom?

A Mystery Reader would come and read one of their favorite children’s books to our class.  Times can be flexible!  Just let me know and I will see what we can fit into our Literacy Schedule!

Our first Reader’s Theater will be on September 18, 2015 at 8:30!

The students will be presenting “Mother Goose to the Rescue”!  Here is our cast:

Mother Goose	Emma and Kali
Humpty	Xander
King Cole	Tripp
Cow	Ben
Jack Horner	June
Willie Winkie	Carter
Tommy Tucker	Abe
Miss Muffet	Vivian
Rhymeland Rhymers	Kara, Mikenzie, Hailey, Presley, Trenton, Madelyn, Emmaline, Jonathan

PLEASE PRACTICE NIGHTLY WITH YOUR CHILD.  IT IS OKAY TO ECHO READ OR HELP THEM FIGURE OUT UNKNOWN WORDS USING OUR READING STRATEGIES :)

ASSIGNMENT NOTEBOOKS

Also when you are checking your child’s Assignment Notebook, please initial the Assignment Notebook.  That way I know you have seen any important messages. Thanks.

We are always ready to add our silly faces to make you smile and laugh especially at the end of the day!

Something to HOOT About Today!

KPMDoodles 

This year in 1st grade one of our jobs include Kid Bloggers. Through my research I have found that students can start to establish a positive digital impression of themselves by communicating with digital tools.  As the students go to Work on their Writing or during Writer's Workshop they have a sense of pride knowing that they will share their work with their classmates and now also with a larger audience.  I feel that when kids blog it builds the communication between home and school.  Kid Blogging also gives students the opportunity to use a variety of web tools. The best thing about having my students blog is the pride that I see them developing in themselves as writers, readers and digital citizens! 

Today's Kid Bloggers are Emma and Vivian. The students introduced themselves and told us something that they liked!

 My name is Emma. I love my brother because Peter makes funny faces at me. It makes me laugh. 

My name is Vivian.I like to play sports because I get to have fun with my friend at swim club and at gymnastics.