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Quizlet Live - Our new favorite thing!!! 

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Quizlet Live - Our new favorite thing!!! 

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I was looking for new way for students to complete study guides (we usually just complete them in partners or small groups) and test review (we typically do a family feud type game) and B. Bailey suggested we try Quizlet Live. We have played Quizlet before (often actually!) and the students really enjoyed it. Quizlet Live incorporated individual student knowledge and team building skills, it was the perfect way to review for our class! All students were engaged in the review and had SO much fun!!  A (MEGA!) bonus to using Quizlet Live was the website randomly generated teams and then would reassign teams each time the class wanted to play the game. I loved how different groups of students worked together to try and  win the game!  Since our first use we have used Quizlet Live to reivew ELA skills and Math skills.  Students are always asking to review using this site!! :)

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Some students were just a tad excited to win their first game of Quizlet Live! :)

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I'm always looking for new vocabulary strategies and DLC Instructor, Mrs. Bailey, shared with me a great one to try! My class absolutely LOVED it as you can tell in this short video clip with the student saying, "Yessss!" Wheel Choose is a digital wheel that can be used for many things and we found it great to use for practicing vocabulary! The choices used on this wheel were as follows: Act it out, Draw it, Give the definition, Use it in a fill in the blank sentence, and Your choice. The students really enjoyed this new way to review vocabulary! :)

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Students using their vocabulary list to review the words/definitions using Wheel Choose. While one student used the wheel all others in the group viewed their vocabulary list from Google Classroom.

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Sometimes I look to give my students independence while learning and allow for them to discover on their own (or with partners!). During this electricity lesson students used a teacher created guide to read, listen, and watch Discovery Education to learn more about electricity. The mix of reading and video clips the tech-book offers is wonderful and students truly learn a lot while having fun and feeling independent! :)

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No Sound?  No Viewing of the Video Clip?!

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No Sound?  No Viewing of the Video Clip?!

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To introduce the new math unit, Area, to my third grade students I decided to watch a video clip. This however was no "normal" viewing of a video clip. Students first viewed the clip with only their eyes (no sound was played) and recorded what they saw (examples: important words, pictures, etc.). Students then only listened to the video clip and recorded what they heard. After both unconventional viewings the students were able to view the clip "normally." We discussed as a class and did the following: defined area, found the formula for area, created area examples, and area non-examples. Below are video clips of students discussing with partners what they saw and heard. At first the students thought this idea was a little crazy but I truly feel they learned a lot!

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What's more fun than learning about Haiku poems and then creating your own? Sharing them on Flipgrid of course! Students were introduced to Flipgrid earlier in the year through a lesson co-taught with Mrs. Bailey (DLC Instructor) and LOVED it! After creating Haiku poems students were so into sharing them so we turned to Flipgrid to make this already fun learning more fun! Students were very proud of their work and as always, enjoyed snapping a selfie for their work!

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This year during the first week of school we used Two Truths and A Lie to get to know our classmates. Students had a fun time creating "lies" about themselves and learning more about one another. I plan to use this strategy later in the year for academic material so I felt this was a great way to get students used to the set up of how it works. I'm calling it a success as students wanted to play round after round!

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Students worked in groups to create their truths and lies then we came together as a class to learn more about each other! :)

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Students loved getting to know one another through this strategy!

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While I missed the summer DLC session, my fellow DLC team members did a great job of catching me up on what I missed. After our "catch up session" our third grade team decided to do the Hexagon Connection Activity as one of our first week of school activities. All third grade classes completed this activity and then came together to make connections! Third grade students wrote three things they were nervous about and three thing they were excited about for third grade. Students then found connections (example: I am nervous to take more tests, I am excited to check out more library books, etc.) and connected their hexagons where their connections aligned. My class is represented in the photo below by the green hexagons. As a grade level we loved doing this activity and hope to do it again next year! :)

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This year instead of displaying student written letters to the new third graders as my hallway display, I chose to display QR codes with last years third grade students reading their letters aloud. It was great way to show how students will use technology in third grade as 3-6th grade students at my school are 1-1. New students and families loved watching these videos! These videos excited students and students were wanting to use Chromebooks and Seesaw from day one!

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Students read their letters about third grade and new third grade students could listen to them through these QR codes.

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LOVED using QR codes as a back to school hallway display!

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Wrapping Up the 17-18 School Year (QR Codes!)

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Wrapping Up the 17-18 School Year (QR Codes!)

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A goal I had during the 17-18 DLC Year Two was the learn how to successfully use QR codes. I am proud to say I met that goal and love using QR codes! I love the quick access it gives students (and parents in the first case I used them) to the information I want them to have. My first time successfully using QR codes was to give parents access to a Seesaw video that students created to explain more about their SC Newspaper. This newspaper is part of our PBL unit that we share with parents and school members through a coffee shop one morning. Students and parents loved using the QR codes!

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QR Codes linked to a student made Seesaw video!

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Wooohooo! Excited to finally feel comfortable using QR Codes! Students were SO proud for their parents to see their videos! :)

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Wrapping Up the 17-18 School Year (Break Out!)

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Wrapping Up the 17-18 School Year (Break Out!)

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To wrap up the 17-18 school year my third grade students completed their SECOND (yay!) Break Out!  The first Break Out they completed was a mix of an online and paper version. All problems/activities were on paper and the students answered online. The second Break Out (students pictured here) was solely online and the students were very successful! All but one group broke out! Students really enjoy these activities! It gives them a chance to review material as well as enhance their group work skills. I definitely want to continue to using Break Out! :)

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Broke out with nine minutes to spare!

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First group to break out!  They were very proud! :)