Mrs. Scott created some TEKS based reading questions in order to review her classes on various reading concepts and TAKS strategies. She collaborated with Mrs. Beasley using the Turning Point (student response) system for this activity. The kids enjoyed choosing their answers on the remotes as well as seeing how well the entire class did on each question.

Both teachers enjoyed seeing the kids excited about showing what they’ve learned!

Mrs. Stork has created a blog for her class. The class is doing a book study and she uses the blog to pose questions to the students. The students leave comments on the blog in response to the question. The students are interacting with each other and the teacher.

This blog takes learning beyond the classroom! The students are able to respond in class, at home, from their cell phones, or wherever they have an internet connection. This encourages students to participate and it gives them an individual platform to have their ideas heard.

This is AWESOME Mrs. Stork! Check out the blog at http://5thgradetag.blogspot.com/

I had the awesome pleasure of working with Mrs. James and her students this morning in the computer lab. In class they wrote out the information and brought that to the computer lab with them. They pulled up a Venn Diagram template and started placing their info into the right sections. As her students worked on their science curriculum they learned very important technology skills. They learned how to insert text boxes, make them bigger and even move them around.

What I liked best was that they were recalling the information from their minds and labeling it in the right spots. They were all actively engaged and on task! Something tells me that they liked this project. Way to Hook’em Mrs. James! (Hook’em – is short for “getting them ready for college!”)