A Practice Voice Thread

This is a voice thread that my student made. I am so proud of her. She did it herself.
I can't wait to hear her story the she has been working on so that I can leave a comment.

CCMS Visit

On April 8th 2009 I took a tour of the Corpus Christi Montessori School. It was very interesting. I had never experienced a classroom environment like that before. I am used to the traditional classroom. i thought is was cool that they group all different age groups together. Everyone works at their own level and pace. I think that is great because it takes the pressure off children tryng to keep up wiith their peers. Also older children get to help the younger children. I was also impressed at some of the work and projects they were doing. Some of the work was way above the childrens level. What I really loved was all of the pets and plants that they had all over the school. It made me feel like I was at home. In all I think it was a great school and I would like to learn more about Montessori.

I Met My Student

Yesterday at 6:00p.m. I met with my service project student.  I could tell she was very bright and eager to learn what I had to show her.  Her mother was pretty excited too; as I was when I learned to use these cool tools.  Together we set up an account with google docs. and bloggspot.  She was so excited to have a blog.  I think that when this project is over with she will continue to use her blog, as will I.  They were very impressed with the voice thread tool.  We came up with many ideas of how we can use the voicethread. I think she is going to end up making some kind of cartoon and we will narrate it. She sent me a story idea on google docs. that I think is great.

The Service Project

I have contacted my student via e-mail, and I got a response today. They are ready to meet with me at their home tomarrow at 6p.m. I am very excited to hear from them, I thought maybe they did not get my message. I am relieved and very happy to get to work.

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Using a Spredsheet in your classroom

Well I have finally figured it out.  I have never really worked with a spredsheet before.  It really is not all that complicated once you get the hang of it.  I was impressed that I was able to get it to do functions such as adding and multiplying.  i have created a spread sheet that would calculate how much money you could make by recycling.  All of the figures are just made up but, in  my project the child would have to so some resaech to find out how much items such as aluminum cans are sold for.  They could the plug in the numbers into my spreadsheet and see how much money they could generate.  I think children would find it as cool as I did.   Check out my spreadsheet.

Some questions I would ask my students when working on this project would be:

1. How can you use a spreadsheet to record data?
2. How can you organize the items collected on your spreadheet?
3. What types of graphs could you make with the data on your spreadsheet?

How Can I Save the Earth?

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How Can I Save the Earth?

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