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Happy Sunday friends, Traci from KS here. Excited to be moderating tonight and talking student engagement and how to keep things going through the end of the year #1stchat
A1: I'm doing my first ever breakout edu in two weeks I can not wait but I am very nervous I am going to fail it. though willing to take the risk for my first graders #1stchat
A1: I have a few authors we are going to Skype with to help with opinion writing, love to do surprise days when we transform the class to be a cave or a class without lights to study about light, etc. #1stchat
A1: We have started the rainforest unit, which the kids in which we turn the room into a rainforest and make creatures to hang, as well as prepare a program for parents. When in K, the students see it, and are excited now to do it. #1stchat
We have been working on the strategy o asking Qs. So, to get them to realize that we should wonder all the time, we create wonder boxes to store all our wonderings, while we look for answers. #1stchat
Trying to picture the habitats down the hallway, sounds exciting! We are going into this unit soon also, we have guppies, beetles, snails and pillbugs. Always fun learning! #1stchat
A1: Continued.. the kids also know the last unit of the year is dinosaurs and a fossil field trip. They hear about it from older siblings and I have been asked about it all year long. #1stchat
We have a "Wonder Wall". When Ss are reading or hear something that sparks a Q, they write it on a sticky note and we research it. Kinda the same? #1stchat
I got the boxes through Dollar Tree, each student has their own. I have a student from once upon a time who brought her wonder box to college! #1stchat
We have a "Wonder Wall". When Ss are reading or hear something that sparks a Q, they write it on a sticky note and we research it. Kinda the same? #1stchat
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A1: since I'm not teaching yet, I have no surprises. In the past I have always incorporated holidays into the lesson making sure not to offend anyone. #1stchat
We won a visit with @devpetty to talk about her book Claymates and also doing one with @kevkurtz5000, they usually discuss their books and their writing process/ideas, Q and A for Ss about writing #1stchat
A1: A PBL to help our state park thrive for people and animals. Interviewing the park ranger, building fishing poles and bird houses. Maybe even plant a tree! #1stchat
A1. Just finished a unit on friendly letters. Students wrote back and forth to a mystery friend! The mystery puppet joined us in class last week after we gathered enough clues to make predictions of who he was #1stchat
I purchased black garbage bags for tables, black paper for the windows, Ss made cave creatures and put them around, stalagtites and stalagmites, etc.I play bat sounds on Smart board, they have flashlights to get around for the day! #1stchat
I purchased black garbage bags for tables, black paper for the windows, Ss made cave creatures and put them around, stalagtites and stalagmites, etc.I play bat sounds on Smart board, they have flashlights to get around for the day! #1stchat
A2: I always think that just having a simple verbal assessment usually works for me- paired with a question sheet covering the main topics taught in that lesson #1stchat
A2 We like @GetKahoot and @plickers although I really don't use them an "exit" ticket. I like asking "What did you learn today?" "What was challenging?" etc. in the closing meeting. #1stchat
A2: I also send home a follow up question on @ClassDojo for the parents to ask students about the day, then parents message me back. They earn dojo dollars for the challenge. #1stchat
YES! You totally should! I put tape over the light switch and a note that says, DON'T Use and make a big deal about how our lights are broken, then have items around room to investigate light w like shadow things, flashlights, mirrors, etc. #1stchat
A3: ss will take a create each animal they research, take a pic and read facts in @seesaw, then post in the hall and all SS take a qr walk to learn about other animals #1stchat
A3: Already said-rainforest, dinosaurs, nonfiction reading unit on space, Little Red Hen in which we learn sign language to retell story,we write steps to make a pizza and make it. #1stchat
A2: I don't like the exit ticket idea. Maybe because I am used to working with SPED kids. I'm able to get them engaged and open up when they realize I'm a normal person. We talk about our pets, family, food, fun things, and get to know each other. #1stchat
A3: Our Ss write their own mystery stories that are inspired from the Jigsaw Jones series by James Preller. We us #BookCreator to publish and celebrate our final drafts. #1stchat
A4: Kindergarten and 1st went to a play at UNI in the fall and then 1st goes to Rockford Fossil Quarry to hunt prehistoric fossils and to learn a little about Iowa history. We all get matching dinosaur tshirts for this one. #1stchat
A4: we go to the Exploration Place, science center, and in April we will go to the art museum in Wichita. We also walk the neighborhood and clean up trash for Earthday #1stchat
I loved when my students worked on animal projects. They learned about so many new animals and were really excited about sharing all they knew.#1stchat
A4: I love field trips. The last one I went on was to an old one room schoolhouse in AZ. The kids were so amazed at how things used to be. You could feel the excitement in the air from these young minds. I can't wait to start doing it again.
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A4: I love field trips. The last one I went on was to an old one room schoolhouse in AZ. The kids were so amazed at how things used to be. You could feel the excitement in the air from these young minds. I can't wait to start doing it again.
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I love taking kids to the zoo. The kids wanted to be in my group because I always had a camera and took tons of pictures of them with the animals in the background and gave them to their parents. #1stchat
We play mystery state where we try to guess where the other one lives, myster number where we guess a number, also we have done mystery animal an community worker #1stchat
about 30 min. is all my Ss can handle, we get to ask a few questions at the end and I try to have it as a follow up to our lessons so they know what it's about #1stchat
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@katiehrris, @SeaWorld, @YellowstoneNPS
We visit Drumm Farm In Kindergarten. I give the students ipads to record their trip. Great to see from a Ss perspective. This is the selfie she took. #1stchat
A5: Not sure if it necessarily fits, but we have been doing Mystery Readers the last few weeks and Ss really enjoyed them. Ps signed up on a Sign Up Genius list #1stchat
I think that sometimes students might struggle with certain standards but that does not mean that the student is not proficient in the rest of subject #1stchat
We are coming up on our shapes unit as well. I've got some research to do. If anyone is interested in trying a hangout with a rookie, I'm interested. Thanks! #1stchat
I love my standards based report card. I created more of a hybrid using some percentages to determine level, but I do feel I know better exactly how my kids are doing and what we still need to learn. #1stchat
