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information for Day 2 Morning
Activities |
 Attention
signal for today is
"Gumbo....YaYa" |
Morning Routines and Procedures:
 Daily
Journal writing and sharing
E-mail
assignments
Question
of the Day
Weather
Watch
Super
Speller Activity - check your
partner technique
Completion
of Graphs and gathering data
from graphs after lunch.
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Day
Two Journal:
 Day
Two Journal Writing Prompt:
In the article you read for
homework last night “Integrating
Technology” what points were
made that you feel are important
to you and your students in your
classroom?
Journal
Writing in MICROSOFT WORD.
“Thoughts from Louisiana”. Click
Journal Template button
(Word) at
the top left. |
E-Mail Assignment:
 Check
your
Tangischools email account
on the Internet and Reply to the E-mail
Assignment Day 2. Learn about
the Junk and Spam folders inside
your Inbox. Make sure you not
only delete your unwanted E-mail
but also to empty the Deleted
Items folder. |
Question of the Day:
 “Who
are Lapin and Bouki?”
(Internet) Click on the link to
go to the Internet to find the
answer to this question. Post
your answer on a stickie around
the poster. |
Graphs for Day Two:
 “How
many vowels in your name?
Are
you named after a family
ancestor?
How
many letters are in your name?” |
Weather Watch:
 You
should check high and low
temperatures and conditions for
this day in Hammond, Chicago,
Los Angeles, and Washington
D.C.? Use
www.weather .com .
Weather Watch Lesson Plan
(Word)
outlines the procedures for this
activity. |
Think - Pair - Share
Use Louisiana bookmarks as a
cooperative learning grouping
technique for pairing
participants to discuss journal
responses. |
Management Strategies
Model classroom strategy for the
day of rotating in and out of
one computer station. Use “I
Had a Turn/ I Need a Turn” chart
with clothespins for management
technique. Using Print Shop,
write a sentence or two in our
class big book on the rotating
computer about your name or
nickname and where it comes
from. We will make a class Big
Book with your entries.
Discuss the “One Computer
Classroom” (Internet) and different
management techniques for
addressing different needs and
classroom situations. |
Louisiana Map Activity in KID
PIX:
TECHIE TIME with KID PIX 4
(Internet)...Demonstrate the
drawing tools as being universal
from one program to another for
the most part. Show stamp and
sticker sets.
 KID
PIX Exploration Time
Locate
paper copy of
LOUISIANA MAP
(pdf) in
pocket folder. Lay a piece of
transparency paper over the map
and with a Sharpie, trace around
the map to make a
“transparency.” Tape the
transparency on screen of
computer monitor, and use KID
PIX to draw the map, using the
wide line tool in Wacky Pencil.
Write “Louisiana” at the top of
the map. Stamp and label the
capital in Baton Rouge. Project
also requires your name,
stickers, and stamps as well as
a border. Save as LAMap in your
desktop folder.
Other
Louisiana
Maps (HTML) can be found
here.
Use
the
KID PIX Louisiana graphic
list to help you quickly find
stamps and stickers for your
map. |
KID
PIX
Slide
Show
 “Monday,
Red Beans” music by
Johnette Downing from her CD
From the Gumbo Pot.
(Internet) |
TC Lesson Plan“Turtle and Rabbit
Run a Race"(Word)
 Background
information for students on oral
traditions and narratives
through folklore.
Read
orally to class “The Turtle and
the Rabbit Run a Race” from
Swapping Stories. Discuss moral
and cultural traditions revealed
in this story.
Use
“Humdingers” cooperative
learning technique to divide
into learning teams of four
people. Each learning team
should use one CD and work
together to read THE LIVING BOOK
- THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
CD-ROM. Then discuss the
likenesses and differences in
the two versions of the story.
Look
in your Pocket folder pages for
LIVING BOOKS TangiTech Tips.(pdf)
Techie Time – make a
Venn Diagram in PowerPoint
using the template on your
TangiTech CD comparing the two
versions of the fable. |
TC
Lesson Plan “Naming
Traditions"
(Word)
 We
continue our discovery of
Louisiana, its geography,
traditions, inhabitants, and
resources. We begin with the
consideration of naming
traditions, especially names in
Louisiana. Discuss these.
Read
the story online at:
www.lpb.org/programs/swappingstories/langley_koasati.html
published by University Press of
Mississippi.
Read:
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
(Internet) and discuss the
Investigating My Name Interview
sheet (pdf) that accompanies
this book.
Identify
groups of 4 in the room.
Interview your partners to
discover their name story and
make sure everyone has entered
their name story in the rotating
computer.
Techie Time – Create nameplates
in MICROSOFT POWERPOINT using
the
nameplate template (ppt) on
the TangiTech CD. Demonstrate
procedures. Students
create nameplates and print two
copies, one for the top of their
computer monitor. |
Name
Poem Activity
Use
Digital Cameras to take pictures
of each other to insert into
Name Poems.
Create
name poems using MICROSOFT
POWERPOINT and Word Art for
Large Letters.
Step-by-step directions for Name
Poems (word)
Introduce
“A My Name is Alice”
Technology-Connected Lesson Plan…
book, and
children’s project. (Word) |
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Technology Connected Lesson Plan
(Word)
 Use
the
Lesson Plan template (Word)
on the TangiTech CD to create
your three Technology Connected
Lesson Plans for TangiTech.
Use
copy and paste skills to insert
Content Standards and
Technology Standards (word)
into TC Lesson Plan.
Discuss
the steps to planning of the TC
Lesson:
1. What is my lesson?
2. What are my objectives?
3. What is the student activity?
4. What materials are needed?
5. What is the technology
connection?
6. What assessment strategies
will be used?
7. What are the procedures?
Louisiana
Content Standards (web) and
GLEs
(web)
K12
Educational Technology Standards
(Word) |
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Lagniappe Activities and
Information:
Sign Language - Sign your name
at PBS Kids
Coastal Louisiana Coloring Book
(Internet)
E-mail Secret
Pals (word)
Something's Wrong with My
Computer... Lessons from a
Computer Tech (word)
TC Lesson Plan - It Looks Like
Spilt Milk (Word)
TC Lesson Plan - Stamp the
Alphabet with Kid Pix (pdf)
TC Lesson Plan - Totems Tell All
(Word) -
Totems Tell All Student
Direction Sheet (Word) |
Brain Check and Homework:
 Complete
Brain Check #2 (Word)
1. Read Journal article:
“Creating Web Units” by Dierdre
Kelly for Classroom Connect in
your pocket folder.
2. Read Journal article:
“Partners in Learning: Twelve
Ways Technology Changes the
Teacher- Student Relationship,”
by Beth McGrath in your pocket
folder.
3. Read the articles and be
prepared to discuss.
4. Begin to work on your
Technology Connected Lesson
Plan. |
Housekeeping
 Make
sure one copy of all printed
work is filed in folder box and
you have checked off completed
activities on the clipboard by
the file box. Collect supplies,
and bring computers back to
desktops.
This page was last updated on
Tuesday, June 01, 2010.
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