Welcome back friends! It’s been a whirlwind of fun over here in our neck of the woods! Lot’s of learning, lot’s of learning growth, both inside and outside of school. The school year is ending (the craziest I think we’ve all endured), graduations, the start of summer vacation, all the fun stuff. I hope you all are excited for summer as well!
John starts school first, on January 4th, 2021…at our dining room table.
In Southern California, all ICU beds are filled. His district has opted that for the foreseeable future high school teachers and students will teach and learn from home. I go back to school next week , on January 11, 2021. In our district, teachers are back at school, and students have had the option of learning from home or learning at school. Approximately half of our students enrolled in my school are physically back at school.
Because we use Chromebooks and iPads within our classrooms, we have the ability to use our technology to help us teach these ELA standards. In order to make sure we are teaching all of the key standards, we created a resource for each standard. For second grade, we have made Google based interactive resources to teach and practice each standard. We started with the Literacy standards. Here are the new resources that we’ve developed:
This bundle can be used with any ELA reading curriculum, book, or story! This product is perfect for Daily 5 Word Work rotations, ELA Centers, STATIONS, SMALL GROUPS, EARLY FINISHERS, Sub Plans, or WHOLE CLASS instruction using Google Classroom.
Aligns with SIX Common Core STANDARDS- L.2.1a, L.2.1.b, L.2.1.c, L.2.1.d, L.2.1.e, L.2.1.f.
Students LOVE using technology to research new topics and learn new things. We created two digital resources to help fourth grade teachers modernize their California missions units. We created our Google California Missions UNIT ~ a unit, packed full of passages, text dependent questions, Leveled Essential questions (Costa’s for AVID, DOK, or Bloom’s) writing prompts, a digital research report, and much, much more!
We developed our Google Interactive California Missions Interactive Notebook Research Report to create a new way for students to “show what they know” when learning about California Missions.
There are SO MANY REASONS to be migrating toward digital resources. Here are a few benefits:
If you are preparing for Open House, there are so many ways that you can marry a digital resources with traditional classroom environments. Students can show their parents their digital work by accessing a device in their classroom and confidently show their new skills. You can also add beautiful bulletin boards to accompany this digital work. One of my favorite teachers recently used our resource and added two beautiful boards to compliment their digital work. She printed pieces of their digital report for the wall, and then added a BEAUTIFUL art project to show a splash of color and tap into student creativity.
Of course, if you are not quite ready for Google resources, we are here to help! Just jump in an ask questions. We provided step-by step directions on how to use this resource in Google resource or other platforms.
We do also provide our original, paper variety resources for both our unit and our
research report
It was a quick but valuable two days. I was lucky enough to have traveled with two of my favorite teammates and friends; my amazing, wonderful, and cherished principal, and a talented, tech-savvy, and dear teacher from my school. Because I was able to go with these ladies, the trip was both lots of learning and tons of fun! We found our new favorite restaurant in Palm Springs… a hidden gem named Elmer’s Restaurant. We have determines that it is our favorite because we ate both dinner and breakfast there! I won’t mention what we ate, but we all left happy:)
We came home with much more knowledge about so many technology related topics, but the area that captured my imagination was the concept of flexible learning labs, Collaborative Classrooms, and Active Learning Spaces.
We found a display of bright, colorful kid-friendly furniture that would facilitate fluid, multi-purpose spaces that can be instantly adapted for large groups, small teams, or individual learning activities. There were beautiful interactive, flat panel displays on the walls, and a multitude of devices for students to use in their learning.
There are so many amazing benefits to create a learning space such as a flexible learning lab.
Here is a brief overview of benefits:
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