Today our amazing tech teacher, Ms. Falco and I had a conversation about kindergarten and the 3-D printers at STEM. She had a couple of my students watching the 3-D printer create a pot that one of them had designed on a pottery app. We talked about how we could get the kinder students to start designing objects to be printed and came up with this project. For the end of the year kinder celebration, we always have the kids do an art project to bring home. This year, the kids are Setting Sail from Kindetgarten, so we decided that we'd have the kids design boats with their initials in them to be printed and put in shadow boxes. This is our first test print and I can honestly say that Ms. Falco and I were just as excited about the product as our designer! Can't wait to start designing tomorrow!!!
Today was a really exciting day for me as a teacher! This January, I applied to become a PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator for the 2016-2017 school year. Today I found out I was selected as a Local Digital Innovator, which will give me the opportunity to do lots of professional development and learn about some amazing ways to use technology in the classroom!
I'm really excited to get to learn from the PBS Learning Media team and other Digital Innovators! This week, all of STEM Magnet Academy celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday with a variety of activities. Each grade level was asked to interpret one of Dr. Seuss' quotes. For kindergarten, I decided to use this as an opportunity for a close read of "The Sneetches" by Dr. Seuss. Throughout the week we read and highlighted and discussed the story. Then on Thursday and Friday, I asked kindergarten students to consider what the message of "The Sneetches" was by answering the question, "What did Dr. Seuss want us to learn from the story of the Sneetches?" Here are our thoughts.
This week we had lots of fun celebrating Dr. Seuss, who's birthday was on Wednesday! As part of the celebration, we created class books modeled after There's a Wocket in My Pocket. Each student created a creature that lives in our classroom and wrote a sentence to name their creature. You can find the complete book on our Shutterfly page!
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Mrs. McGrane
I love teaching kindergarten literacy at STEM! It is amazing to be a part of the reading and writing growth of a kindergarten student. You get to see kids move from knowing some letters and sounds to being enthusiastic readers and young authors. Archives
March 2016
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