1. I chose to review Taylors Lakes Primary School Art blog . I love to see kids being creative with art materials. I have never been much of an artist, but I always loved art class in school. It is one place where there is truly no right or wrong way to do things. I particularly like the Fantastic Fiji Joy creation. Purple is my favorite color, and the details are very intricate. It is always good to give kids another medium for expression. We must get away from cookie cutter education. Eight learning intelligences have been identified, yet we continue to teach to one or two.
.http://tlpsart.edublogs.org/2010/10/28/fantastic-fiji-ahoy/comment-page-1/#comment-279
2. I chose to review Georgetown Elementary School. The section I commented on was about NPR's new segment called Save a Word.. I considered being an etymologist at one point because words and their origins are absolutely fascinating. If you think about it, how do words get a meaning? We all agree to it. That is why the English language is so fascinating.-bank means a place to store your money and a side of a river.
http://georgetown.edublogs.org/2010/11/16/save-a-word/
3. I also found a great website called MR P TECH TEACH, and it is basically just great interactive games. I could really use this with my third grade class. After they have completed an assignment, I give them free time to take an Accelerated Reader test on the computer. These games are also a great academic activity for them to try. I am trying to incorporate technology into my lesson plans, so educational games are a great way to do it.
http://teachtech.edublogs.org/23-grade/
4. For a second grade class in Brisbane Australia, building a monster was fun and educational. 2R shining stars is a blog that highlights the Monster Project completed by students in different classes. At some point the students came together, and built the monster. The project encouraged collaboration and communication between classes. As we get older, we tend to not want to work in groups, but students in younger grades do not have that built in bias against group work. I work with students along this same age group, and they want to be in groups when they are working. I want to foster their natural tendencies into a cooperative approach to the challengers of third grade as well as in everyday life.
http://2rshiningstars.blogspot.com/
I enjoyed reading your outlooks on the blogs you choose to review. I also choose the one on Georgetown Elementary School. I found it very interesting and thought it was great that each individual classroom had their own blog as well as the whole school. There was so many great resources I found while looking around on this blog.
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