Week #3: More introductions...and a chance to choose

For those classes who come every week, we're moving right along to our 3rd center introduction: SMART_™ Board Center.  If you visited the media center last year, this activity (below) might look familiar to you.  Since most of the teachers are familiar with the SMART_™ Board, the only introduction we'll really do for this center is to show the students how to stand to the side (so they are not blocking the projector).  After that brief introduction, we're going to let the students have a chance to choose (from the 3 we've talked about), and go to work in a center.

Objectives

Menu for the 3 activities:  Creaky Old Bed,
Family Member Balloon Pop, & Family Member Matching

This (choosing centers) will probably take a little bit to get used to, but our first group did a really good job remembering everything they'd learned in the first two weeks (about the other centers)...so I think it'll work. :)

Students working in the Read to Me Center...

...and in the iListen & iLearn Center...

...and in the SMART™ Board Center

On a side note, I will be posting pictures directly to the blog sometimes, but I have also created a photo album that will contain all the pictures we take in the MMC.  You'll see it also as a post...but you can get to it by clicking the link as well. :)   Teachers, make sure you let Helen or I know if you have students who do not have permission for photographs.

For the classes who only come to see us every other week, don't fret...we'll get there.

One more thing...this week, I'm sending with teachers the *official* newsletter from the Multimedia Center to go home with students.  I hope to do this monthly--for those families who might not have access to this blog, but would still like to know what's going on.  Just in case I forget (or if I don't give you enough), here's the file--so you can print more.  It is double-sided, so if you're printing to send home, make sure to select the double-sided print option (so we don't kill more trees than we need to).