Using Google Read and Write

Hello,

This morning we started the day with a discussion about Thanksgiving and why we are having a canned food drive at this time of year. The students shared some interesting insights and had a good grasp of why we needed to help those in need.

Next, we continued to work on rounding in Math. We finished our work on rounding to the nearest ten, then we began to work on rounding the nearest hundred. We discussed the different strategies we could use when rounding to the nearest ten, compared to rounding to the nearest hundred.

In Language, we used the chromebooks to work on our recounts. Our goal is to have a typed or written good copy of our most recent recount and a 3 to 6 frame bitstrip comic to illustrate the recount, by the end of Thursday.

Some students were working on their comic on bitstrips, which they will share with me and I will edit, while others started to type their good copy of their recount on Google Drive. The students who were typing were introduced to the Read and Write extension, which can read back text to the student and even has a word prediction function, while they are typing (just click on the crystal ball in the tab). The students should have access to this program at home as well, as long as they are signed into their  Google Account. The students are welcome to continue to work on these tasks at home as well.

Finally, we finished up our discussions on suspension bridges in Science and we took out new books from the Learning Commons.

Have a wonderful evening.

Mr. Skinner