Valentine's Day and WebDesk Survey

Since Valentine’s Day was this week, I decided to read Valentine’s Day stories to Pre-K through 2^nd grade. In Pre-K, I read Henry and the Valentine Surprise by Nancy Carlson.

In Kindergarten, I read Happy Valentine’s Day, Gus! By Jacklyn Williams.

In First Grade, I read Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine by Herman Parish.

In Second Grade, I read Little Mouse’s Big Valentine by Thatcher Hurd.

In grades 3 – 5, I asked them to complete a brief survey on how comfortable they were using WebDesk and Google Drive. The majority of the students said they could easily access WebDesk, but more than 50% said that they did not feel very comfortable in adding apps and accessing their files. The majority of the students stated that they knew how to create a Google doc, but not a Google sheet.

I hope that this will give me some topics that I can work with them on throughout the remainder of the year.

Winter Olympics

In Pre-K – 1^st Grade, I read G is for Gold Medal: An Olympics Alphabet by Brad Herzog. It gives some history and interesting facts about both the summer and winter Olympics.

In grades 3^rd – 5^th, we watched various episodes of The Science Behind the Winter Olympics from NBC Learn.  We learned about various sports such as bobsledding, hockey, figure skating, skiing, snowboarding and curling. It was very interesting to see the physics behind some of the more difficult moves made in each of these sports.

I really tried to encourage the students to watch some of the Winter Olympics. I feel it is a great way to show and encourage good sportsmanship.