Day 1 Tinkering and Frolycing
We had a bumpy start to the first day. Half of my class is in gifted art and were out during part of science centers. The other half of the students began taking some of the objects apart. A few things...
View ArticleGoogle Hangout
Today our class and one other 5th grade room from the district had a Google Hangout with the developer of Frolyc, Nirupama Bala.The students enjoyed seeing Niru and hearing how she began developing...
View ArticleStudent Post- Thoughts and Reflection
I really love tinkering so far. It's very fun and interesting. The only frustrating part is wiping off the lube! ~EmmanuelTinker time is something people need to...
View ArticleScience Centers- Student Responses
Like I said yesterday about how failure is basically a hint to success, today my group and I got the black covering and the tin protector off of the monitor. All it took was teamwork. Once everyone...
View ArticleChicago Boat Trip
We took the day off of tinkering and using our 1:1 devices to enjoy the awesome city we live by, Chicago. We did an architectural tour that was very fun!
View ArticleStudent Post- Thursday Science Centers
group three and one worked on the computer and the tiny tv we managed so far to losen the computers frame and unscrewed bits and pieces of the tiny tv and successfully manged to get pieces off from...
View ArticleStudent Post- Tuesday Tinker
When I finally got the main part to the x-box open with Mia I got so excited because I feel like I have been working on I forever.-NiaWhen we were tinkering with the old desktop monitor we accomplished...
View ArticleConnect It All
I have my edmodo, schoology, two Twitter accounts, Facebook account, Pinterest account, four websites, one blog, two google accounts, a youtube account and I am sure I am missing...
View ArticleBlogging Again! (Wow!! There is a lot to recap...)
It has been a year from today that I posted my last blog! This past school year went so fast and was filled with a lot for great and challenging times. My class continued to learn with me and put up...
View ArticleFrom Teacher to Instructional Coach
HH Family at the Cubs GameHH Group Halloween CostumeTowards the end of the year I decided that I was ready for a new challenge and a change in my career. I decided to go for the new position as an...
View ArticlePrepping for the New School Year
For my new coaching position I have been reading many books this summer.I have also revisit the teaching channel just to be ready to bring some new research based strategies to the teachers I will be...
View ArticleStudent Led Discussion Strategy
My goal is to reflect on or write about at least one teaching strategy each week.https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/high-school-literature-lesson-planPinwheel DiscussionsI attached the link to the...
View ArticleWhole Group and Shared Lesson Day 1 Coaching
My goal for the school year (new school year resolution) was to blog more. The beginning of the year has be really crazy traveling between three different buildings. This week my focus is supporting...
View ArticleDay 2 Shared/Guided Reading Coaching
#newschoolyear resolution:Shared ReadingGuided ReadingRecording my Lessons in Order to Reflect Today was the second day I modeled Barnhouse strategies in both shared and guided reading. I was a little...
View ArticleWeekly PD: Week 1
Along with my goal to blog more regularly, I also have the goal to bring something new to the staff each week in 5 minutes or less. My goal is to "plant seed"s of ideas each week, not necessarily to...
View ArticleWeek 2: PD in 5 minutes or Less
I am out of the district for training on Friday, but I wanted to keep up with my goal of a new idea presented at our staff meetings each week. I decided to create a quick video with iMovie using some...
View ArticleMath Talks and CGI
This year I have been attending training about for math coaches and the focus of the training has been on Math Talks and Number Talks. I have modeled a "Math Talk" in all classrooms at my elementary...
View ArticleICE 2016
I will be presenting on flipping the classroom to maximize and differentiate instruction in February. I plan to include different sections of the presentation. I have 50 minutes and it will be a poster...
View ArticleResearch Simulation Task
Research Simulation Task Slideshow PARCC ExpectationsResearch Simulation Tasks– students will analyze an informational topic presented through several articles or multimedia stimuli and then answer a...
View ArticleMTSS January
Today, my school's data/MTSS coach and I spent some time looking at both Aimsweb and NWEA data for our enter building. Our goal was to identify any trends we saw in the data. We decided, at the end of...
View ArticleAll Set for ICE16!
I have finally completed all my documents for the ICE Conference and my Snapshot session next Thursday. I am presenting on Flipping Your Classroom for Differentiation and Instruction. I have changed...
View ArticleMy Resource Page
This year I have been trying to story all my links and resources on a resource website so I can access them easily. I have organized the site into a few tabs: Grades 3-5, Grades K-2, Literacy,...
View ArticleMorning PLCs
Each morning, grade levels meet together for morning PLCs. They have not been very structured and some teachers feel like they are not getting much out of the morning meetings. After our last data day,...
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