Edulastic

Edulastic

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to use Edulastic in Mrs. Beavers 4th Grade Classroom. We were continuing our work with construed response. This gave the students a very ILEARN like look using Edulastic! 

I made this example. I had some front end work of typing up the article into the space, but it allowed the students to view the passage and question at the same time!

Here is a student response (found on Google Classroom):

Some Great Things About Edulastic:

>Syncs with your Google Classroom.

>Tech Enhanced Questions for ELA and Math

>Practice the new "Hot Text" Question

Edulastic is not the most user friendly especially when it comes to assigning to Google Classroom. 

View this Google Doc to See Directions: Edulastic/Google Classroom

1st Grade Fact and Opinion

Fact and Opinion

This week I had the opportunity to Co-Teach with Mrs. Hildreth in first grade. Our lesson focus was on teaching the difference between fact and opinion. Before the lesson was taught Mrs. Hildreth and I collaborated together on ideas beforehand. Mrs. Hildreth started the lesson using a fact and opinion video. It defined the different facets of each and at the end had a try it section. We used turn and talk and had students share what they were learning throughout the video.

Next we looked at a picture and had the partners come up with different facts and opinions. We shared out at the end and let the students decide if the student was saying a fact or opinion. We had the students reference the anchor chart when needed! 

At the end of the lesson, we used Google Classroom and Google Slides to link to an interactive Fact and Opinion Sort. Mrs. Hildreth took her "pull-out" group and sat with them during this portion. This allowed her to have the students read and repeat the sentences being read. The students enjoyed using Google Slides and the interactive document. 

                                  

Anchor Chart

Google Slide Sort

Kindergarten Rekenrek

Rekenrek

This week I had the opportunity to visit Mrs. Moffett's classroom. We used the Rekenrek to practice number sense, addition, and subtraction. I began the lesson by allowing the students to explore the rekenrek as they wanted and see the different color beads. I then started questioning how many beads in each row, the number of red beads, and the number of white beads (etc.). I then started with showing a number and the students showed them on their rekenreks. I called on students to come up and show how they showed the number on their rekenreks! We repeated this activity several times and did the same for addition and subtraction.

The second day I returned and we used a link through Google Classroom to get to an online Rekenrek. The students haven't used Google Classroom much, and I was impressed with how well they did navigating to the correct places. The online rekenrek allows you to add as many rows of beads as needed and also allowed students to write on the screen. We again practice showing numbers, addition problems, and counting by tens! The students LOVED using Google Classroom and the online Rekenrek. 
Link to Online Rekenrek

Making An Inference

Making An Inference

Today I had the opportunity to visit Mrs. Beaver's room to continue practicing our Yes! MA'AM constructed response and practice making an inference. Students were given the task to read the article, The Snowman. After reading, there task was to make an inference on "How does Mya feel when she sees snow out the window?" They were asked to use details from the text to support there answer. After reading the task, we talked about the word inference and how they will see this word on ILEARN. An inference is using details from the text + their knowledge. To help us see the steps we used Roz Linder's Silhouette to stick on the details in the text that would show how Mya felt. Students marked up the text as we posted these on the silhouette!

We then moved on to writing our constructed response. While working on these, it allowed myself, Mrs. Beavers, and Mr. Forkert to go around and have conversations about their constructed response. See some of the students examples below

                                                         

Here are the links if you want to try this in your classroom:

Roz Linder's Silhouette

The Snowman Article

Google Doc--Yes MA'AM

Paired Texts

Paired Texts

Over the past week, I had the opportunity to go into our third grade classrooms and work on comparing two texts. We used Damon Bailey versus Romeo Langford articles. Students navigated to these articles using Google Classroom.While reading students filled out their Romeo versus Damon T-Chart. The T-chart allowed students to compare Damon and Romeo's middle school, high school, and college careers, as well, as after college. We read the article together and as we read I would pause to have students share what they learned. They recorded those thoughts in their T-Chart. After reading, students navigated to a Google Document were they checked the statements that applied to each player! The students loved learning about All-Stars from our state!

Here are some student examples from the lesson: 

                

Here are the links for the lesson: 

Romeo Article

Damon Article

T-Chart

Romeo/Damon Comparison