Since I have different grade levels each day, I have been doing Hour of Code all week. With my students I’ve done Hopscotch, Kodable, Robot Turtles, and several of the lessons on Code Studio. It has been an absolute blast! Yesterday, I asked my 4th graders to describe their feelings about their programming experience using … Read more
Update 4/11/2022: This poetry lesson, along with many others, appears in my Poetry Wakelet collection. Click here to find more free ideas! I don’t often repeat lessons from one year to the next. But this has been one of my favorites to use with my 4th grade GT students during my career. The only change … Read more
Many of you are probably familiar with the iPad app, Haiku Deck (options for editing on the web are coming soon). It can be used to create presentations (similar to Powerpoint, but more graphically appealing, in my opinion), and is very user-friendly. One of the things that I like about Haiku Deck is that it … Read more
Flocabulary is a site that bills itself as “Hip-Hop in the Classroom”. I used to access it regularly for their wonderful “The Week in Rap”, which, basically, was a summary of the week’s current events with interesting visuals and a catchy rap to accompany it. Unfortunately, this became part of Flocabulary’s subscription program, and I … Read more