Text Support with Popplet

Popplet is a great app for showing knowledge visually.

Today we began reading Seeker of Knowledge from Reading Street (our reading textbook adoption). Our curriculum asked us to have the kids choose a hieroglyph from each page and explain the sentence from the text that provided more information about it. This was a great opportunity for us to use Popplet to showcase our learning instead of writing it on a piece of paper.

Here are a couple:

I was happy with the results. :) They had a time limit of 20 minutes to do this.

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In our literature groups, the kids are reading Geronimo Stilton books. Have you seen them?

I have made QR codes with comprehension activities for the groups to do throughout the book. One of them was to create a Popplet:

This group is reading a different Stilton book.

What have you done with Popplet? I would love to hear your ideas.

The One and Only Ivan

We thoroughly enjoyed this book. If you haven't read it, you should.

As we were reading, I asked the kids to share their thoughts. Here are a few.

We love sharing books. Every time I said I was going to read, a shout of joy went up! When I stopped they would groan. It made me smile every time.

I haven't decided what we are reading next. Either Wonder or Shredderman.

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The spring is about to start! I have really missed my class, but I am not looking forward to the stress of testing. I am going to do my best to keep that stress from my kids. I don't want to beat them over the head with "The STAAR test" this and that. 

Are you ready to go back?

Christmas Break

This is the first Christmas break that I haven't worked on school related projects. I am proud of myself! I spent time with my wonderful husband and family!

My sister came in from Atlanta for the full 2 weeks, so I got to spend plenty of time with her. My sister-in-law and her husband flew in from Virginia and we got to see them for 5 days. My other sister-in-law is home from college, so we were one big happy family!

My sister-in-laws and I at our grandparents house.

This last week I decided to decorate our guest bath. I love doing that! I painted an accent wall, went shopping at Ikea (I love that place!), and got some hardware from Lowe's.

That is a red rug, not carpet!

I hope you enjoyed your break!