We've looked at some interesting curating sites today. I've been adding lots of links to my Diigo account, so that I can access them this school year and share them with my colleagues. I hope to be able to use Exploratree with my students this year to cut down on paper and to create more class graphic organizer collaboration pieces. Of course, we'll still use our giant hands-on Venn-Diagram, but this will be another tool I can add to my teaching "toolbox". I am interested in delving a little deeper into LiveBinders since I have so many physical binders for all of my teaching units. I got to revisit my old NetVibes page and update it some. I had forgotten all about it.
As always, I'm very far behind on posting, but I've finally combed through all of the photos and put them into Layout to share with you. Created a "Reading Helps Your Mind Bloom" book display, to leave up as state testing started. I pulled lots of gardening, bees, and butterfly books. Plus, lots of potential parents came through at the end of the year for tours, so it was good to have this out to keep it from being too sterile as all the library books started coming back. I did a "Hop Into a Great Book" display here to put an emphasis on some seldom-circulated books as well as to highlight nonfiction, though I also put out some fiction books too! Kept on teaching kindergarten and first graders about different authors. I did create some very fun centers for Mo Willems. As one paraprofessional said to me, "You're brave to do Play-Doh on carpet." However, we didn't really have any issues when I gave the kids clear expec...
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