I started working on August 3rd this year, my school has gone "Track E" or Year-Round". Of course not every Chicago Public School has done this, which is very inconvenient for those of us who have school age children in another school and a husband who also teaches both on a regular schedule. I keep hearing, "mommy where are you going, it's summer!" I found some research that shows this trend doesn't even work http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070811151449.htm
Hummm, we will see.
It was nice to arrive to my library/classroom to play with my new Hitachi StarBoard (interactive whiteboard)and the Elmo document camera that was attached to it. The kids are starry eyed when I turn it on. I can't wait to find some new ideas to use with them. So far I have used it to show a video clip that is related to the book I read them. I love the Dewey Decimal Rap I found at http://www.schooltube.com/video/a6f0e9bf883c6426497b/The-Dewey-Decimal-Rap
I have also had my little ones move the ABCs around the board into the alphabetical order. I plan to scan my first book with the Elmo next week and highlight some of the difficult words and link it to Google images as we read.
Any ideas?
