It’s hard to believe that it’s already the middle of October.  We had parent/teacher conferences this week.  The fall party is coming up in two weeks, and before you know it, we will be into the holiday season.  Our classroom has been a busy place. In fact I’ve been so busy, that this blog [...]

School is officially out for the summer and my classroom is closed. Before the kids left for vacation, however, I had them participate in a survey about the technology we used in our classroom this year. I wanted to know how they felt about the projects and websites we used. To administer the survey I [...]

We are more than two months into our class “Photo of the Day” project.  In reality I am running more than a week behind, so we will be playing “catch up” when the kids come back after spring break.  Having students participate in a “Photo of the Day” project  seemed like a natural progression, since I am on my [...]

Our class has been working on two writing projects since early December.  Students have been writing personal narratives and posting them to their Kidblogs.  This writing project was in connection with our new writing program, Being a Writer, which I wrote about in an earlier blog post.  We have spent our writer’s workshop time going [...]

Everyone is making New Year’s resolutions at this time of year, and I have a few in mind myself.  The new year also brings an opportunity to rethink things that are going on in my classroom.  There are several things I would like to try in the coming weeks and months.  Even though I didn’t [...]

There are those moments in the classroom, when the room is filled with the satisfying hum of kids working and engaged in learning.  Those are the magic moments, that make everything else worthwhile.  I treasure them when they happen.  I have experienced a few of those precious moments in the past two weeks.  It happened when [...]

Last year was the first year that I really used technology in my classroom.  The previous summer, I had taken an on-line class, called “Using the Internet in the Classroom.”  As part of the class, I built my classroom website, and learned how to make my first webquest. That was just a start.    Once I [...]