This weekend, the students are bringing their ipads home to take some pictures. Next week, they will be learning how to write reviews of places and things. This weekend, they are gathering pictures of places and things they want to write their reviews on. I am excited about this addition to the unit because although I have taught writing reviews before, we have never been able to include pictures of the actual things the students are reviewing. For example, if they are reviewing a restaurant, they can tell us about their meal and then show a picture of their actual food. It will completely enhance the project and I'm so excited to see what things the students are planning to review.
Over the past few months, we have been learning a lot about ourselves and other people through our social emotional program, Second Step. In these lessons, the students have had a chance to read each others' facial expressions and body language. Then, each student created a feelings book using book creator. We generated a list of emotions that people feel. Then, the students each created a book of themselves displaying those emotions. They took a picture of themselves showing the feeling and then either typed or recorded themselves telling how you can tell they are feeling that way. For example, if a student was showing sad, they would say that you can tell they are sad because they are frowning and looking down. It was a great review of all of the lessons we've done so far and shows that the students are really in tune with how each other is feeling. This weekend the iPads went home for the first time! In the past, we have had students draw pictures of their collections from home, which was very time consuming for them and sometimes difficult for the class to see accurate pictures of what their collections are. This time, the students were able to take pictures of their collections and then make collages to rank the order in which they like the items in their collection. I am excited to see the change in this unit because of the iPads. We will be doing some other iPad incorporated lessons coming up that will support the idea of making opinion pieces come to life. |
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