The 2013-2014 School Year Begins

Friday, August 9, was our first day of school for this school year. It was exciting to meet the new members of my homeroom, most of whom I will teach math, science, and social studies. We spent the morning in homeroom organizing our classroom supplies, getting our cubbies labled and organized with our new books. The students also wrote a paper called Three Truths and a Lie, which they shared with the whole class, as we tried to figure out which of the four statements was untrue. They also created a "mini-me" which holds a notecard telling important facts about them.

During the afternoon, we fired up the netbooks and learned how to create a PowerPoint slideshow. Ms. Naugle demonstrated by using our Promethean board how to open PPT, create a title slide, add new slides, add imagines, and save the work. Then the students had a chance to create a three slide PPT about their passon. The students also learned how to create a folder on the computer's desktop so that they can save all of their creations to their personal folder. Everyone did an awesome job with our first tech assignments of the year.

Before heading to PE (our last period of the day), they had a chance to flex their math brains by completing fact games on www.multiplication.com.

I can't wait to meet the rest of my class who didn't come on Friday. Hopefully everyone will be present and accounted for on Monday. I have created fun and engaging lessons for us to do next week.

What a great start we had to our new school year!