The Teacher's Guide To The One iPad Classroom. Today, I’m going to tell you a fairy tale: Once upon a time, my mother in law (a third grade teacher) was in her classroom at school when her principal walked in and gave her an iPad for her class to use. Well, technically it was supposed to be for the entire third grade to share, but that’s almost beside the point. After some initial excitement, she discussed how the entire third grade was supposed to share a single iPad with her fellow third grade teachers, and the iPad was promptly banished into a drawer, never to see the light of day again.
The end. Wait, should I have warned you that the fairy tale didn’t have a happy ending? Unfortunately, it isn’t an isolated incident. Use apps for….. ….And more! ADHD - Health & Wellbeing. By ABC Health & Wellbeing Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is one of the most controversial topics in children's health. There is disagreement on how the disorder's definition is applied to individuals, and some people are concerned about the treatments prescribed. Updated: 15/08/2013 [Image source: iStockPhoto] Background It's one of the most common disorders of childhood, affecting an estimated 3 to 5 per cent of Australian schoolchildren, but few topics in children's health arouse more controversy than Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – or ADHD.
Formerly known as Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD, ADHD is characterised by difficulties staying focused and paying attention, 'problem' behaviour and hyperactivity. Skeptics may dismiss the condition as being nothing more than childhood exuberance and energy, but child behaviour experts have longed acknowledged that ADHD represents behaviour well outside the youthful norm. Symptoms Inattention symptoms include: Diagnosis. Spelling. Reading from Scratch - Spelling Rules. ENGLISH SPELLING RULES Short and Long Vowels 1. To spell a short vowel sound, only one letter is needed: at red it hot up 2. To spell a long sound you must add a second vowel.
The second may be next to the first, in the VVC pattern (boat, maid, cue, etc.) or it may be separated from the first one by a consonant in the VCV pattern (made, ride, tide, etc.). If the second vowel is separated from the first by two spaces, it does not affect the first one. This is the VCCV pattern in which the first vowel remains short. Maid, made, but madder; dine, diner, but dinner. Spelling the Sound /k/ This sound can be spelled in any one of four ways: 1. c 2. cc 3. k 4. ck 1. 2. 3.
(Boring examples? 4. 5. (Forget about yak. The letter, k, follows any other sound: The Sound, /j/ The sound, /j/ is spelled in three ways: j ge and dge. 1. 2. 2. The Sound, /ch/ The sound /ch/ has two spellings: tch after a short vowel, ch anywhere else: Using -le Words ending in -le, such as little, require care. Odds and Ends 1. 2nd Grade Art with Mrs. Brown. Students created fall New England landscapes using a masking tape resist technique. The kids rip the tape into lots of "trees and branches" and I have them stick the tape to their pantleg until their pantlegs are full.
Then they start sticking ...the tape to their paper. I like to do that project on sturdy watercolor paper so that the tape does not rip the paper when we peel it off. Also, by sticking the tape to their pant legs it helps make it a little less sticky, and less likely to tear the paper. Also, when they paint make sure all their trees are "planted" in the ground and none floating in the sky! Day 2 involves peeling off the tape. For Art vocabulary, we discuss background/middle ground/foreground. Sharon's Art-Rageous Webpage. More "Magic e" words. TreeMaker.
Background In 1989, I wrote an article for the magazine Engineering & Science about the state of technical folding, which, even then, seemed to be progressing by leaps and bounds due to an infusion of scientific and mathematical principles. In recounting some of the connections between origami, math, and technology, I wrote: Computing succumbed to the appeal of folded paper when, in 1971, Arthur Appel programmed an IBM System 360 computer to print out simple geometric configurations at the rate of more than one hundred a minute. Ninety percent were considered unsuccessful, but it raises an interesting question: could a computer someday design a model deemed superior to that designed by man?
Since so much of the process of design is geometric, the prospect is not as outrageous as it may seem. A screen shot of the design screen for a scorpion using TreeMaker 4. The ensuing decade saw this speculation turned into reality (and no one was more surprised than me!) Description Downloads. Lessons Worth Sharing.