Silly Sally: Where Readers Grow

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Monday, January 11, 2016

Wow! I wonder what all this amazing app can do!

I absolutely love the Wonderbox app by Duck Duck Moose. No surprise here, that the makers of Chatterpix would create such an all inclusive, creative app. Wonderbox has the capability to be a student portfolio, offers high level blooms activity creation, collaboration, and creative prompts as well.

Mrs. Helgen and I have been utilizing this tool for the past few weeks and cannot see how we survived before. It seamlessly integrates into our 2nd grade classroom and the creation opportunities are limitless. We use it daily and in every subject!

I wanted to share a few of the lessons we have created and found within the app.

Math:
We began by challenging the students to video themselves counting out money. Sending it to a friend for them to check.

In the second math lesson we had the students video themselves stating the amount of money on the picture. They then sent it to 2 friends. Their friends were to respond with a picture of the same amount of money using different coins.

Students created word problems using a specific equation and sent them to their friends as an assignment. The students did the assignment and solved the problem sending it back to the creator to check for accuracy.

Example of one that was answered by another student.

Language Arts:
Students have been studying onomatopoeia examples in Robert Munsch books. We asked them to write out two sentences using onomatopoeia and read the examples.

Science:
Students have been studying inference and seasons. They used different clues to prove what season it was. They then recorded themselves explaining their clues for their season. The next day they wrote a season riddle for their friends to solve.

The edu version of this app will be out soon! Be sure to add this app to your TO GET list!!

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Weebly Tips for CE

Monday, December 7, 2015

Wonderbox Ambassador

I am so EXCITED to be selected as a WonderBox Ambassador!! This app is created by Duck Duck Moose. You may know them from the famous app - Chatterpix! I will be partnering with Ms. Helgen's class to pilot this new app in a school setting! Be sure to check out Ms. Helgen's Blog, http://sunshinesmilesandsmarties.blogspot.com/ and mine for updates on how this awesome app will be helping our students, here at CE!!

STEM: Samurai Santa

Library STEM Lesson: Samurai Santa

Have you read the book

Samurai Santa by Rubin Pingk?

This might be the cutest, most fun, Christmas book EVER!

Friday we celebrated National Ninja Day by reading this clever book. Incorporating STEAM or STEM into our library has been a goal of mine this year and this wonderful read aloud offered the perfect opportunity to reach this goal.

Third grade is studying procedural text at the moment, so we used this as the TEKS to focus on, but encompassed so much more than just how to write procedural text.

As you may well know, we do not see too much snow in Texas, so in preparing for an EPIC snowball fight, we must first make snow. Students measured and mixed to create fake snow. We used three table spoons of corn starch and three heaping and growing table spoons of foam shaving cream. They mixed the ingredients together to create "snow". We then fashioned this creation into snowballs. Following this experiment we went into the computer lab and blogged about

"How to Make Snow".