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I'm a second grade teacher at West Friendship Elementary. I've
also taught third and fourth grades throughout my career. I'm
very interested in different way of using technology in the
classroom. This year I've started a Wiki. We have sent out
letters across the country to second grade classrooms seeing if they
would like to join our Wiki. We also sent our buddy Flat Stanley along
to visit and get his picture taken. I'm hoping this Flat
Stanley/Wiki idea will eventually take off. A number of the kids and
their families have already added to the Wiki. We may just have
to give it time.
We read the
book The Velveteen Rabbit.
We then brought in our favorite stuffed animal and wrote about
it. We videotaped ourself reading our wonderful stories. If
you would like to see us read, just come to this website. Of
course, you must know the password (and only our friends and family get
to know that). Stay tuned. We
plan to have a WebKinz Club beginning in February 2008. We will
take pictures and write about our favorite WebKinz. If you want to be a
part of this, just let Mr. Cole know. We also have a
second grade newspaper. I am experimenting with putting it online as
well. Here is a sample.
Developmental
Assets is a program our school is doing in conjunction with character
education. A partial framework of this program can be found here.
The fourth grade will eventually have a newspaper. It is called the Iguana News. We have to now decide on an icon to go with the newspaper. I will post the icons on an official icon page. The children should look at this page and decide on three symbols that they like. We will vote and the one with the most votes will be the winner. My hope is that we might possibly get the first newspaper out before winter break. If not, it will begin immediately in January. So much to do, and so little time. Our latest exciting happening at West Friendship Elementary is the production of the play, "Into the Woods". Actually, as of October 1, 2006, we are just on the verge of starting with the production. I will place a page online for communication between actors, backstage workers, and parents. It definitely takes a community to raise a curtain for a play. The following page should facilitate communication among that community.
My
class also has a "class calendar". pieces
of information.
I
am beginning to help my students create web pages with their special
interests.
The first web page is about the Titanic. The second web page is about castles. The third web page is about Disney World. The fourth page is about horses. ![]() Here is a link to our Colonial Town called Acornville. Our daily word problem is resting here waiting to be solved. Totally unrelated to school, my mom recently found two pictures online. One is of her and one is of my Uncle Tom. Both pictures were from World War II.
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![]() In 2003, I graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Technology for the Classroom. It was an excellent program. One of the projects we were asked to complete was the creation of a professional portfolio. The above portfolio was created at my school, West Friendship Elementary. The below portfolio was created as part of the Johns Hopkins program. A
link to the Hopkins Connection Can you ever have too many portfolios? Here is the one I created (am creating actually) based on my new experience in the second grade.
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