Our two new computers and and our five i-pads arrived yesterday with Mr. Jim Speth. This afternoon, I am learning much with the Lampton MIT teachers about using our technology. What fun! Mr. Speth is an extraordinary teacher. I am already leaping ahead in my knowledge. We are starting with haiku writing as our first project. My language development English-only class will be creating haiku poems with support images. I can't wail to see what they will do.
I was mistaken. My class only has about thirty minutes in the computer lab after lunch on Fridays. I recently found out that our MIT teachers are given an extra computer time each week. I didn't know this; my fellow MIT returning teachers didn't know that I hadn't been aware of this opportunity. On Monday at 9:05 we should be in the lab for another visit. In the meantime, I still have only one laptop in our classroom. I really would like to know what my first project could be and how to give my eager students the opportunity to try it on with me. I am looking forward to this new horizon for myself and my students, but I need help. In class we are learning double digit addition with and without regrouping and winding up our first study encounter with expository or nonfiction texts. Monday, we start math intervention in addition to our continuing reading intervention. Our intructional aides are heroes for their work in teaching small groups several times a day at various levels and grades!
I seem to have lost my very first blog. What's new? I sometimes believe machines are creeping like poisonous snakes to devour my mind. I had wanted to communicate that I am waiting expectantly for our techy equipment, such as I-Pads. Maybe I should write a poem instead.
Re... One day I live in a dream– The next I am almost in reality. Tomorrow the machines Will invade my brain And my cave will disappear Like all antiquated notions. We are in full swing for our reading intervention and our English language development. I am teaching phoneme/grapheme coordination to our developing readers. To our English-only language learners, I am instructing in the art of Haiku, a Japanese poetic form based on syllabication that ties in with one of our second grade essential standards. With one teacher laptop computer and 45 minutes in the computer lab each week, we haven't had much technology time on. We only have been testing in the lab for I-Ready and Star Early Literacy and Star Early Reading. Students are also starting to aquire typing skills.
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