A Package!!!

It's a package!!  A package!  From whom...Frito Lay!  Why Frito Lay?  They are a sponsor of Trucker Buddy!  As mentioned in a previous post, Bruce, our Trucker Buddy won Trucker Buddy of the month for December!  Bruce got his package and here is ours.

What's inside?  The same question my 17 Multi-agers and I asked too?  The big reveal....

10 GIGANTIC bags of chips- 20 per bag.  (doing the math-that would be about 10 bags per student...we
distributed them to the whole school)-sorry for the sideways pictures!

THANK YOU, Frito Lay!
Smiles,

Tech Seminiar-WeVideo

Saturday is here- can I toot the weather's horn-it's a sunny and balmy 20 degrees!  Are your feet freezing yet from just reading that?  Well, earlier this week it was 30 below with the wind chill.  But, in Wisconsin the weather changes quicker than I can tie my shoelaces sometimes!  Tomorrow's forecast- freezing rain!

Yesterday our teachers attended a tech seminar!  I signed up for Wevideo and Screencast-O-Matic (Screencast-O-Matic in a future post)!  I left both presentations eager to try both of these tools!  Have you heard or do you use either one....if you are laughing at me and thinking, geez Rosie it's about time you have your feet in tech land...then I am jealous of your tech knowledge!

Part One:  WeVideo!  We accessed it through a new tab in Google Chrome and then in Google Web Store.  Just type in WeVideo for Google Drive.  Once you found it you can download it or launch the App.  If you have Google Drive it is very easy to load and navigate.  You can make a Storyboard or Timeline of your videos from InstaGram, Flickr, FB, Google Drive, etc.   Once you have your video made you can publish it via Google Chrome or You Tube.  Here is a link to WeVideo on YouTube:  click here

I look forward to editing my videos with WeVideo, but even better-sharing them with you!

Smiles and be well!

Day 2...Indoor Recess Blues

COOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLDDDDDDD....-30 with the wind chill.  I'm so thankful the good Lord did not make me an Eskimo!  How they survive and endure endless days of frozen feet and numb hands is mind boggling to me...although they probably are accumated to the conditions!  Anyone need a Spring break trip in January???

Soooo,  tis day 2 of indoor recess!  We raided our math closet- a host of math games from Goodwill and thrift shops.  Of course, many of my childhood classics live in there- Monopoly, Scrabble, Candy Land, etc.

I am thankful that we have had Gym the last two days and that my classroom is active!  Without 15 minutes of outside play for two days is not learning healthy to me, but stimulating games and body breaks sure help ease brain yawns!

Legos-always a hit!  

One of my favs-Guess Who?

Attracting Fun-MAGNETS!

Tue

Mostly Sunny and Cold

Hi 2°|Lo -10°

Wed

Partly Cloudy, Still Cold

Hi 12°|Lo -6

Mostly Sunny and Cold

Partly Cloudy, Still Cold

Tomorrow's high 12 degrees!  WOOT...we are above 10 degrees...heat wave!
Smiles,

Beginning Stages of Paragraph Writing and RPT

Is a three f day- Fighting, Fighting, and Fighting this cold!!!
I am also trying to figure out why my pictures are also being rotated before insertion???  If you have the solution please let me know!  You will be virtually thanked!

Do you use the Hamburger model to assist your students with their paragraph writing!  We just launched this appetite stimulating organizer!  My students find it helpful and a clear way to organize their thoughts and ideas!  Below is a sample of one of my students.  Please note, we continue to work on revising and writing expanded sentences!  I was just soooo ecstatic to have them transfer their writing from the Hamburger model to the publishing paper.  Baby steps...baby steps!

If you look at the top of both of the pictures, you will see three boxes labeled RPT!  WHAT IS RPT...don't recognize the acronym?
R stand for re-read...a nice boxely reminder.  P stands for peer conference-this is one of their favorite parts-socialization time :-)   Finally, can you guess what T stands for?  Hooray you did-Teacher conference-my favorite part!  They need to check the first two before they see me and the last one I check!  This little strategy has made a Whopper change in helping them remember to do these two steps before conferring with me!

sorry for the turned picture

Beginning stages of paragraph writing...awesome start!

I cannot wait to post future published paragraphs!  I am so proud of my 17 writers!  Here is the link for the Hamburger model:  click here

Smiles, be well, and sending you virtual Vitamin C drops!

Our Trucker Buddy Won!!

HAPPY Friday!
Please say you are staying healthy...no colds, flu, drippy nose???  Me, not quite!  Woke up this morning...with what you probably guessed...a bad cold...all I can say is I'm trying to not deplete the shelves of Kleenex and hand sanitizer!  My dry and cracked hands are not happy with me!

I AM SO EXCITED AND AS HAPPY AS A CHILD WHO JUST GOT THE ULTIMATE HAPPY MEAL TREAT!  Bruce, our Trucker Buddy, won the Trucker Buddy of the Month for December!
Click Here  to read what Trucker Buddy posted!  I am tickled pink for him (ok maybe blue to match his trucking gear).   I am also thrilled that my students realized the power of their writing voice!!!

Congrats, Bruce!                     

Family Journal

Happy Wednesday!  Are you feeling the stress of the week like me?  PLEASE say, "Yes."
....THANK YOU!

Today we wrote in our favorite journals!  OUR FAMILY JOURNALS-a big write shout out to these spiral communication logs!  Since the beginning of the year, my Multi-agers have been corresponding to a family member-mom, dad, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents!  Each Wednesday, they choose who they are going to write to and then write a journal entry to the family member!  That night, the family member writes them back and we share the entries the following week!  These are a great tool to have my students summarize highlights from the past week and express their loves and passions about school!  Furthermore, my students are doing one thing that many families have little time to do these days, communicate in a written form.

Family Journal

sorry...it flipped-journal entry from one of my students to her sister...the sister corresponded below

...flipped twice-journal entry from the same student to her brother

entry from a student to his mom with her correspondence following

Do use a form of communication between your students and family members?  If so, please share!

NOW...after sharing this, my week's stress has just dropped 10 lbs!

Me on the Map

Happy Monday, Teachers!!!

We have been 100% dedicated to completing and presenting our Me on the Map activities.  This has been a project in our classroom for the past month.  Little by little, page by page, my Multi-agers have proudly been completing, presenting, and displaying their projects!  

This project all began with reading   

Next, we watched the book on You Tube:  Video.

 We discussed how our publication would be different and similar to hers and why.  Finally, I passed out the project and we went through the project and identified our country, state, state capital, town, address, house number, and what we would draw on the page of what is in our bedroom! THANKS, DOUBLE THANKS TO Erin Eberhart WHO SHARED THE Me on the MAP PROJECT....Me on the Map

They were so proud of their completed projects!  I am amazed at their art skills and how they transfer their mental images to paper!  FASCINATING project to connect my Multi-agers to their world!
SMILES,