Kelly Will, my teammate, came up with an awesome new approach to our fairytale unit. Kelly wanted to integrate more technology. With the help of Justin Gonzalez, our District 100 iCoach, we have made this happen.
Every day our team unpacks the standards and plans out our lessons. We have long discussions about what we think will work best for what our students need. In the past, I felt that we would have these amazing lessons, but struggled with creating fun activities assessing the students knowledge. This has all changed now that Justin has been helping us create activities to use in our lessons. It is absolutely amazing how Justin takes our lesson and turns it into this fun, engaging, assessment for the students. They have had an activity to complete during centers almost everyday through keynote and numbers. They have a blast analyzing the fairytale we are reading and it is easy for us to assess what they learned. We now format our lessons through Numbers. We have the "Teaching Point" at the top, the "Why" following, our "I can" statement, and then the step by step process of the lesson. The activity for that day is attached to that page so we know which we are using. It took some getting used to, but now it is simple to follow and fun to add too. We have been integrating Numbers and Keynote into Writing as well. Below I have screenshotted our overall bend, a single session (or lesson) and a sample activity. How fun does this unit look to teach!? I am so thankful for our iCoaches and my AMAZING team! :)
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