Read Alouds

Mrs. Jankowski's class is reading the Tale of Despereaux and getting to know the fearless and love sick character that is Despereaux--a mouse never meant to live and named for despair!

Mrs. Haggerty's class just finished Pigs Might Fly getting to know one of our all time favorite characters, Daggie Dogfoot, who can, in fact, fly!

Desperaux and Daggie have quite a bit in common.  They were both the runts of their litters never meant to live, but built lives of triumph and success.  

Yet Another Kindergarten Digital Story--Literacy Project

So excited it hurts!

Sharing documents or photos got you down?  Wish you could share a folder but don't want people having access to your entire Dropbox account?  Well you can!
Just make a new folder, input files, right click and select the share with selection.  Once you enter the person's email address (as long as they also have a Dropbox account), you can both access the file and its contents.  Brilliant!

Fictional Stories in all Their Glories!

We've recently transitioned our writing from Personal Narratives to Fictional Stories containing a beginning, middle and end.  The transition has proven a bit difficult as the Kinders love to continue to write about what is near and dear...moms, flowers, and butterflies!

This little guy took to the transition well and worked very hard on his story!  We've chosen to do the story in three parts as it supports the way we have been visualizing and completing these stories in class.  If I can figure out how to put them together into one file, I will!

My Digital Story--Take 1

Here's a draft of my digital story.  I started it in Movie Maker on Windows Live, which had some features I really enjoyed (like the ability to include video clips), but ran into a lot of trouble with the narration.  So I redid it on Photostory, which was much more user friendly.  This is set to private on YouTube, so I'm sorry if you can't view it.  I'll have to look at how to add people to share with!

Web 2.0

I was able to make this tagxedo by linking it to my blog.  This tool randomly took words from my blog and I was able to manipulate the layout, shape, and color theme to create this apple.  I was thinking that this would be such a fun way for students to make an all about me poem/collage since you can also insert text you desire.  With the amount of shapes available, this creative writing possibility could be personalized to represent student's personalities.  It could also be used as a culminating character study project!

Does vimeo count as 2.0?

Our first digital story!

We have recently moved to fictional stories including a beginning, middle and end.  Check back to see the progress of our fictional stories.  We have a few close to completion!