Merit Week 10

Today I filmed my students reading their Halloween stories. It is so cute. We paste bones with words on them. They use all 20 of them in the story. They read it aloud to the class. We use each others names in the story. I have jumped over grave stones and been scared by zombies. Now I just need time to make it into a movie.

My broken computer was picked up! Yea it is just a video card that needs replacement.

My room was used for the babysitting for Latino night. It looked great but when I went to use my projector I found it had been unplugged. I don't really know what all the plugs go to between the projector and the document camera and the computer. It was touch and go for a while but I made it work. I used the computer to show a powerpoint with my vocabulary words each week. I click on just the word. The students guess the definition. Usually they ask for a clue which is a picture. I am up late on Monday nights matching pictures with the defintions the come up with during class on Monday. I let them research the word from the story and come up with a short definition. I had a new girl come to my class on Wednesday and with just two days in class received a 100 on the vocabulary test.

I have been promised the two mac computers will be installed next week. I need 22 inches for each computer. I measured and I am set. I need to work on student portfolios next week. I hope I receive the grant so I can just scan all student work. I do take pictures of art work. I need to spend time moving files around and renaming them. I need 8 hours to do just that.

Tomorrow I am off to the county office of education to learn about the new standards and how to measure them for student success. I am off tonight to the lecture.

I did go to the Tech Museum on Sunday. Remember membership is free for teachers. I took pictures with my iphone. I went to iphoto and made a slide show. I can't wait to show my students. I am weak on my world history so attending the exhibit was great for me. I showed my aide and she loved it. I should look for Mongolian music to set it to. I did buy a connection so I can link my macbook with my projector in the classroom. I usually have it set up to my pc.

I found the training on the google sites class great. I connected it to my webpage and now students have to use their login for our Cambrian domain to see it. I plan to put my you tube videos of my students there as well as move most pictures to that site. I have had fun building it. I also am archiving my spelling and vocabulary words there so I can remember what I did. My students always remember that I gave that word before.