Thank you, Mrs. Roth's Class!

Thursday's lesson in Mrs. Roth's class was my first lesson in first grade this year. The first lesson for any grade level each month is always a bit daunting, because I don't have a solid idea of what time I need to make transitions and how the kids will react to the lesson. I have always tweaked things after that first lesson.

For the first time since I've been here, I haven't made any changes to a lesson after that first delivery. Miss Ashley (our intern from Clemson, who will earn her M.Ed. in December) and I talked about I-messages and did some examples with the class on the SmartBoard. She shared a story (The Recess Queen), and the students drew scenes from the book and shared their drawings and the I-messages they might give to Mean Jean.

The lesson flowed very smoothly, transitions were made with care, the students responded well to everything presented, and they shared some great drawings & I-messages.

Wordle

Our school literacy coach passed along a great website: Wordle.net

Warning: this website is not specifically for K-12 education and the gallery may feature objectionable content posted by other Wordle users. The direct link above will bypass the gallery.

Wordle seems very similar to a cloud feature that one of my favorite personal library websites uses. It scans a given website or text snippet for words and puts the most common recurring words into a word cloud, sized depending on how many instances of the word show up.

I "Wordled" this blog and came up with this: