Caldecott Journals via Scribble Press

The 1st graders spent parts of January & February reading books that have won the Caldecott medal. For several of the books, I created journal pages (using Comic Life) that the kids filled out for the books. I chose to use Scribble Press for the journals, because it seemed organized and kid-friendly. The students loved the platform. I need to look more into the teacher settings before doing out next Scribble Press, because I had to type in my account info to each iPad in order to save them, which took a lot of time. Plus, some of them didn't save to my online account correctly. Overall, I thought the books turned out well!

I can't embed the Scribble Press books, but you can browse through them here:

http://www.scribblepress.com/gallery.php?u=acalhoun


We are going to use Scribble Press again to do an activity with the book "It Looked Like Spilt Milk."

Sick Day

I am home sick today, but got to connect with the kids anyway! This is why I love technology. Most of my classes are inbetween units/projects, and I like being with the kids when they start new things. So I left fun activities for the K-1 & 4th grades, but I went ahead and had 6th graders read through the new project description and pick a topic for research. They are going to create timelines about the evolution or history of something of their interest. I threw out some example topics, and had them start a Google Doc where they'll collect their notes. They put their topic in there and shared it to me.

I was at my computer when the Docs started rolling in, so I was able to comment and ask questions about their topics. I also directed one person to a book on her topic. It was awesome!

Here are some of our conversations:

And, I loved this girl and how sweet she was to ask how I am doing and to wish me well.