A group of enthusiastic first/second graders came in first period and C gave them “parts of a nonfiction book” lesson. We sat down later with the teachers to discuss what their next steps are for the research project and said that they would like a lesson on note taking and paraphrasing. I volunteered create and present the lesson after the winter break.
Because the rest of the afternoon was fairly quite C and I went through our ipad project – reading up on Moysle and making sure the apple accounts were ready for our conference call with the DOE Apple rep on Friday.
C also showed me their gorgeous new subscription based online instructional content platform, Newsela. The teachers were very excited to begin using the tool.
We also circled back to the curriculum map and C said she would like it more like a mind map, so we looked at a few options in Piktochart and Bubbl.Us.
Directed Fieldwork at McKinley 