Category Archives: Kindergarten
Back to School Selfie Projects!
If you aren’t following Julie Smith’s ITRT Blog, you are missing out! I’m sad I only got to work with her for one year before getting my new Resource Teacher position at Fair Oaks Elementary because she really challenged and stretched me as an ITRT. She has amazing ideas for lessons that are truly engaging and […] Continue reading
Summer is so Close…
While the year is winding down this final week, I find myself reflecting on this year and looking towards the next. This was my first year as an ITRT and it couldn’t have been better, and that is all thanks … Continue reading → Continue reading
The Decision is…
The decision has been made and we’re going Dell. Wait! Wait! Before you start complaining and think about throwing rotten fruit at me, let’s look at the positives. The new Dells will be so much faster than the computers we … Continue reading → Continue reading
Kindergarten Butterfly Life Cycles
Ms. Lee’s kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning about the butterfly life cycle in science (SOLK.6). Since a life cycle is a sequence that involves change, it’s a perfect subject for an animation. So today we made animations of the butterfly life cycle using a site called ArtPad. First the students used the […] Continue reading
Brain Breaks with GoNoodle
I love being an ITRT. However, there are sometimes I wish I had a DeLorean that I could bring up to 88 mph and travel back to when I was in a classroom. I usually get this feeling when I … Continue reading → Continue reading
1st Grade More and Less Comic Life
Today, I was able to work with 1st graders at Echo Lake Elementary. They are working on 1 more and 1 less of numbers up to 100. At the beginning of the lesson I gave the students three square pieces of paper. On the first sheet of the paper they had to draw a “magic […] Continue reading
Talking Pictures Made Easy
There seems to be a ton of programs for the iPad that takes an image and make it appear as if it were talking. Many of these programs are great for older students but I wanted one that a kindergartener or … Continue reading → Continue reading
Kindergarten Wishes
Kindergarten students in Ms. Fennell’s class have been working hard all year to get to the point where they are finally ready to write complete sentences. That’s a pretty amazing accomplishment, considering when they started in September they were just learning to identify their ABCs! They had previously written a sentence on paper about their […] Continue reading
Butterfly Life Cycle with Kindergarteners
Today I got to hang out with Mrs. Jackson’s and Mrs. Barradale’s kindergarten classes today. They are learning about life cycles. Today we focused on the life cycle of the butterfly. We’ve been working with Pixie throughout the year, so I decided the time for templates was over, and it was time for them to […] Continue reading
Wonder, Aurasma, & Choose your Own Adventure!
All of the faculty and students at Holman Middle School are reading the book Wonder by R. J. Palacio. Once finished or throughout the reading, each content area is creating their own thematic unit to go along with the book. The school has also created a blog called All Holman Reads where the school will participate in book talks. What an awesome way to […] Continue reading
