iPad app called Explain Everything.  Students use this to show what they understand about a math skill!

iPad movie made by a student!

One of the many videos made on the iPad.  The students had to research the animals using worldbookonline.com (for kids) and factmonster.com.  We got the pictures off of CreativeCommons and the music was already on the iMovie.  I thought they turned out cute for a day project!

Even though it is summer...

It's summer and I should be taking a break from school but as many of you teachers are doing, I'm reading, researching, creating, and planning for the upcoming year.  Next year I'll be in the same grade but I'm excited about the new possibilities that a class set of iPads will offer!  :)  Yep, I received a grant for a class set of iPads!! Woo Hoo!!  So this blog will be full of ways that my students use the technology and different fun things I make on the computer.   I will also include different organizing styles I use in my classroom.

I've read before about nonverbal ques and proximity for maintaining classroom management.  Over the past few years I've tried the "teacher look," standing close to the students, and "adding their name" into the lesson.  I saw online someone used nonverbal cards that the teacher just put on the students' desk; so...here is what I created.  I decided that I didn't just want to put a "negative" card on their desk so I made STOP and STAR student cards!