Monthly Archives: March 2018

To kick off Kindergarten’s 5th performance task, I got to visit Mrs. Brier’s class today. Kindergarten will be researching different zoo animals in the next couple of weeks. We had a TON of fun using our random spinner to pick which zoo animal each student would be researching. We read “A Sick Day for Amos Magee” by Philip Christian Stead and even took a virtual field trip! Using San Diego Zoo’s live cameras we were able to see a polar bear, orangutan, elephant, koala bear and even some sharks. I look forward to the next time I can visit and see what information Kindergarten has discovered about their zoo animals!

Today is the first day of Makerspace cycle and that means it’s push in time! While Makerspace takes place in the library, I get to go visit classrooms and collaborate with other teachers here at Brecknock. Today I visited Mrs. Blankley’s third-grade class during their ELA class. For a read-aloud, Mrs. Blankley and her class are currently reading “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”. As Mrs. Blankley reads, the rest of the class follows along with their own copy. Today’s book discussion centered around emotions with the class agreeing that “Books can make you feel and experience different emotions” (Mrs. Blankley). 

For the rest of the class, Mr. Geiman instructed students on how to access and use their new class blogs. Students also learned about the concept of blogging, some new web vocabulary, and handy keyboard shortcuts. It was very fun assisting Mr. Geiman and seeing students use their class blogs! I’m very excited to see what this ELA class does with their blogs!