Overview of Group #1's Media Time

Well, I have not done a very good job this year of getting this updated as I was supposed to.  I apologize.  I did help create a newsletter for all our Wheatley Specials, though, to share what we are doing in our respective classes.  Here's a link to the school's website, where you can access our first newsletter (and other information)...next one will be coming out on February 26th...which is also the first day for Group #2 to start in Media.

But, back to the plan for this post.  Group #1 started in October.  The classes included in Group #1 were all our PreK classes: Stephenson/Sims, Miranda/Vincent, Pascual, Stickley/Denhardt, Ellis/Short, and McDonald/St.Juste; as well as our 3-year-old Inclusion classes: Copeland, Federline, Walderman, Geonzon, Neri, Lewis, & Hare.

We started out talking about the rules and expectations for the Media center. For instance, our "Carpet Rules"

We also talked about behavioral expectations and the students were introduced to Tucker Turtle...who helps us remember to think of good solutions to problems. You can download and read the Tucker Turtle story here. 

After the first month, we started our regular routine--read a story all together and then break into centers.  We have 5 centers this year in Media:

In this center, students explore different
activities on the SMART Board.

In this center, students do different activities on the iPads.

Students can choose a book to read or
they can use interactive materials to retell stories.

 

Students explore activities on our
interactive SMART Table.

Students explore a variety of activities including
Mr. Potato Head, puzzles, and counting and sorting games.

During our first session, these are the books we read together...and the kids LOVED them.

 Some of the PreK classes even got to hear the sequel to Frog on a Log?...which they also loved.

The next two weeks, Wheatley's students will be exploring different activities as part of our Black History Celebration...and then we will welcome our second group to Media.  The 2nd session will include these classes: New, Hunt, Littleton, Shannon/Lance, Andrews, Leyden, Freeman, Parris, Shipps, Santos, Dakes, & Long.  I will try to be a little better about updating the blog once our next session starts.