Five For Friday - Lots to Share!

It's time for this week's Five For Friday.  It was a busy week so let's get started!

1. I finally received my Dewey stand for my iPad, and was so excited to use it.  With the free Board Cam app you can use the iPad as a portable projector (if you have Apple TV on your projector).  The cool thing is I can take the stand around to student desks to show what they are working on, and it projects on my Interactive WhiteBoard. I can also use it with small groups at a kidney table. 

 

2. Another cool technology related thing I tried this week was the free Readers Workshop app.  This app is for recording student reading for running records/benchmarks.  You can add notes, and give them a score for predicting, inferring, etc.  It's really easy to use.

 

3.  To encourage the use of descriptive adjectives while writing, I let my students choose a cuter than cute dog picture I had cut from a calendar.  I usually look for calendars at the dollar store, or at end of season sales to use for this yearly activity. It is always a huge hit!

4. We are studying Japan in Social Studies as our town has a sister city in Kanonji, Japan.  We were lucky enough to have lunch at a Japanese restaurant on Tuesday.  We had the entire place to ourselves, and many parents were able to come along.  I love the looks on the students' faces.

 

 

5. Along with the visit to the Japanese restaurant, my third graders spent an afternoon drawing characters and words in Japanese.  I played Japanese music on the iPad while they worked - it was so quiet in the room, and a welcome relief from all the craziness lately.

BTW - we still have three weeks of school.

 

 

Hope you had a great week!