Friday, March 11, 2011

Merit Week 22

Wow, another great week.  First Saturday was spent with my MERIT team. Awesome as always.  I learned new material which I have already shared with my students.  Tuesday night I spent with the Google apps group and learned how to enter my blog on my website.  I also posted pictures on Picassa and make a book and posted it on my webpage.  It shows our Intel field trip.

Students still love doing the presentations for Language Arts vocabulary but this week I added Math.  Four out of the 16 students never finished but overall they enjoyed doing it.  Math is a subject they would rather avoid but by Friday we were able to review the final product and start learning the new word.  I have homework for the weekend of cleaning up their presentation, and creating some worksheets for home work.  I might like to do this each week and perhaps link it to the subject we are studying.  I am learning too.

I had trouble showing CNN student news a few times.  Our IT department said it was them.  I think my computer was acting up.  But I had a video on the dark ages to show so I was saved.  I show videos for about 15 minutes to connect to the chapter we are studying.  My students did not really know what  a knight was.  The videos helped.  I hope to show the start of Robin Hood on Monday so they can see what the crusades were really about.  I shared this was the begining of when cultures became mixed up.  They like that visual.

I still need help scanning to each students file.  I am scanning student work and saving it by the title.  I need to turn in my receipts for that grant.  I like my external drive.  I still have not labeled my studen't flash drives. I applyed for the Horace Mann scholarship to finish up my level 2 classwork.

I will try to apply for the $1000 cue grant, the next Teacher Innovation grant for March 1 which needs to be in the area of Math or Science.  I am still waiting to hear on the MERIT grant...

I want to set up a Google form for referals in my classroom. Next week my principal is review my math class on Wednesday morning.  Does anyone have a great lesson plan to share?  I am thinking of doing proportion or mean, median, mode.  Now I just need to grade my KidsBlogs, Tween News Articles, Google forms...Oh and of course one more IEP..

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