Welcome to Open House

Welcome parents, grandparents, and friends to Open House.  Title I Reading and Essential Skills Math support are in full swing.  In math, most classes are nearing the end of unit one.  In reading, there are several reading interventions being used to supplement your child's classroom instruction such as Fundations,
My Sidewalks, and Soar to Success.  I am looking forward to a GREAT year of learning!!  

First Grade Reader's Theater

First grade students completed a Reader's Theater of the poem "Metamorphosis."  First, they used Garage Band to create a podcast where they recorded the audio.  Next, they created illustrations to go along with the poem, which were scanned into iPhoto, and then added to the podcast.  Finally, the podcast was uploaded to my blog as video.  Hope you enjoy it!  I am very proud of these first grade students!

Title I Parent Meeting Coming Soon

On Friday, May 27th, there will be a Title I Parent Meeting at Swift River School to discuss ways to keep your child reading and writing over the summer.  Research states that children who continue to read and write over the summer maintain or even increase their skills.  The meeting will take place in my classroom from 8:30-9:15. Your child will be bringing home an invitation.  Please fill out the bottom and send back to school with your child to let me know if you will or will not be attending.  Hope to see you all the end of the month! I enjoy working with your child! 

Our Names In Egyptian Hieroglyphics

After reading the stories, "Seeker of Knowledge" and "The Rosetta Stone", fourth grade students wrote their names in Hieroglyphics.

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

Fourth Grade Students Create Voki to Tell About Invention

Just before vacation, my fourth grade students were reading about inventions in the Scott Foresman Reading Street program.  I decided to have them research an invention and then write a summary to share with the others.  I decided to have them create their own Voki and then have the Voki speak the summary.  They seemed to enjoy creating their Voki and seeing it displayed on my classroom blog.  It didn't take long to do and was a lot of fun!   Take a look, you will find them below this post.  I am glad that I have set up my clasroom blog.  This will be a great place to showcase student work and thanks to our Technology Teacher, Christine, parents and students can get right to my blog from the Swift River School page under links.

I just made a new Voki. See it here: