Merry Christmas!! Enjoy your time off with your family. I will be back in the next few days to share our learning and fun from the last few weeks. :)
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Wordle in the classroom
Tonight after school I attended a workshop on using Wordle in the classroom. Technology is always so amazing! I'm constantly blown away by new ideas and teaching tools. Tonight I created one to use tomorrow... We are learning action verbs right now. i plan on having the students color in all of the action verbs. You could also have them color verbs one color and nouns another, etc.....
Wordle can be used many other ways as well....back to school get to know you activity (words to describe them), character traits, vocab words, spelling words, synonyms, write autobiography about themselves...copy and paste into Wordle...compare and contrast themselves with others, etc.
The presenter of the workshop showed ths examples of synonyms
A video tutorial on how to create word clouds on Wordle can be found at
http://blog.simplek12.com/education/video-how-to-use-wordle-in-the-classroom/
Happy "Wordle"ing... :)
Monday, December 13, 2010
Gingerbread Activities
We will be starting our Christmas Around the World Unit this week. For Germany we do gingerbread activities. Here are a few. :) Enjoy!
My Classroom
Another snow day! This is our third one so far and it's only December 13!
Here are just a few pics of my classroom this year. i have done a different theme for the past four years. This year our theme is the Jungle... Mrs. Lewis' Learning Safari.
Magnificent Me....At the beginning of the year the students wrote an autobiography. I copied their writing on transparency film. The students then cut around it and added it to their magnifying glass.
Click here to download the Magnificent Me sign
Beanie Baby Reading Strategies
Signs were created by Christina Bainbridge
Signs were created by Christina Bainbridge
Information Hut Letters were cut out with my wonderful Cricut!
King/Queen of the Jungle Display
(student's things aren't displayed yet in this picture)
(student's things aren't displayed yet in this picture)
Jungle files
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Happy Birthday Blog!
Hello everyone! I have always wanted to create a teaching website, but have never taken the time to find a domain and get things started. I'm snowed in today and decided to start a blog! Thanks for stopping by. Through this blog I hope to meet new people and share and gather new ideas. Be patient with me as I try to figure it all out. Any tips would be great!:)