Summer 2016!!

Where did the time go?  I cannot believe another school year has come and go and it's summer again.  I say this every year.  I don't know how some teachers keep up their blogs as I just couldn't.  This year was especially busy as I was helping out in the office once a week, our principal was retiring so we were getting things made, working on surprises plus teaching!!!  I am excited to put some final touches on some new things I created for the classroom this year that I felt really helped my students with their sight words.  

 I am also a Google Level One Educator!!  

I am currently studying the units so I can take the exam to become a Google Level Two Educator.  My school has really put a tremendous effort in to bringing in technology and using it properly for the students.  I used some great apps in the classroom and am excited to share those with you.  I am a Samsung user (android) and it was really exciting to see my students embrace the apps and know how to use them.  I did have a Chrome Cast in my classroom which allowed me to cast the app to the screen and show my students how to use the app.  This was really helpful and I would always partner my students up so they would help each other when using one of the apps.

 I was very fortunate to be invited to be a presenter at my school board's first Innovation Day.  I did two session: QR codes in the classroom and Using Google Forms for assessment.  That's me below in my first session.

I was lucky enough to be one of eight teachers that won $1000.00 towards technology in my classroom.  I was able to get 7 Samsung Tab 3 tablets.  

It was like Christmas when they arrived and the kids were so excited.  They were perfect gor little primaries.  I ended up searching ebay and got a few more of the same tablets used and factory reset for good prices.  The kids treated them like gold.  However, I do believe that there is a time and place for technology and the kids understood that the tablets were not for everyday.  

 Well, I must get back to putting the final touches on some of the new activities I did this year.  I will update again soon.

Enjoy!

 Kemble :-)

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