The Third Week

We used a lot of technology this week. In almost every one of my guided reading lessons I found a clip to use and then made a power point to review different aspects of the books. The students loved it when I used the computer and I found that they were more engaged in the lesson. I also taught a lesson on a story organizer where we wrote a story about a snowman as a class and I used the computer projector to display a power point I crated. I found some picture of snowmen that I had the students describe and then we wrote the story. My partner also used the projector during her shared reading lesson and it went great. She actually projected the beginning of the story for a discussion and prediction moment and then she had the students get out their own copies of the book to read the story. I like how she used it at the beginning of the story because the students sometimes skip ahead in the book and ruin the story for the rest of the class but the projected story and pictures made it easier for her to keep students on task. My teacher also used the camera project in her math lessons this week. The project is so cool. She was working on addition and trying to get the students to use manipulative to assist their counting. The projector allowed her to show the students what to do with the cup and the cubes before she handed them out and then they were able to work through problems together. They project was so easy to use and it made it so easy for the whole class to see and follow along with. She also used the project to show how to use the calculator a couple days later. This was probably the coolest thing we saw with this projector. The students could actually see her calculator and what she was doing or punching in and then follow her and it made it so much easier for her to direct the class and actually have them leran what she was tring to teach them instead of haveing to go around to all the studenst and show them what to do on thier own calculators.