#GRAAmy fun

Our first grade students are participating in the Global Read Aloud 2015. We are reading Amy Krouse Rosenthal's books and loving them.  I think she writes such clever stories and students get something more out of them each time they hear them.  

Our latest read Exclamation Mark led to some great conversation about what we are good at.  After reading and discussing Exclamation Mark, students made their mark by telling us what they are good at...with an exclamation mark for punctuation! We created class books to share.  Check them out on our library website @ http://pwlib.weebly.com/grade-1.html.

Students also practiced our photography skills with the iPads. I used Youblisher to create the online flipbook.  

Here are a couple of my favorites:

Random Acts of Kindness

I love when friends help friends.  It is always great to see a young student taking charge and making sure their classmate is getting the help they might need.  

During our keyboarding practice today, one third grader took the time to help a classmate get their computer started and on the right webpage.  In first grade, I had many volunteers to help show classmates how best to photograph their creations for their class book!  Random acts of kindness are truly amazing to witness.

Just Right Books....Compare & Contrast

We read "Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians" and discussed selecting just-right books (5-finger rule) and we did a compare &a contrast exercise with venn diagrams.  We used Padlet to display our diagram on the big screen.  Fun and educational!

New chairs!

 From Demco!

Global Read Aloud 2015

Amy Krouse Rosenthal books are the focus of our first grade participation in the Global Read Aloud!  Very clever stories that we need to pay close attention to with both our ears and eyes! The firsties are thrilled to share their understanding of the story, their interpretation of the images (especially with Duck! Rabbit!), and to make connections to their lives at home or in their classrooms.

We love her books!

Tellagami app for teachers & students

The Tellagami app is great app for teachers and librarians for providing parent updates and directions for students. Tellagami is also great for student projects.

Project ideas:

- Tell about your favorite app, using a picture of the app as the background.

- recap your learning in your own words.

- give a report on an inventor.

Communication ideas:

- weekly update on what we did in class.

- introduce a new feature on your website (a screenshot of your webpage is the background).

- invite your staff to an upcoming training session.

Check out this free app (30 second videos) or purchase the app.