America's Parks coming to 4th Grade

Although I learned a ton at the Teaching and Learning conference, one thing I am super excited about is the Every Kid in the Park! According to John Jarvis from National Parks every 4th grader will have an opportunity to go on a field trip to a National Park...I get goose bumps just thinking about it. The information will launch April 2nd, so lace up your hiking boots.

Find great resources from the National Parks to bring your classroom alive at http://www.nps.gov/teachers/index.htm

From Passion in Primary

Favorite Word Clouds Creators

Wording it out with Primary Passion

The primary with passion group came up with great ideas to use word clouds in their classroom: Melisa S from Kinder-Using a word family that is created by the teacher and then create word clouds as a whole class then following it up Linda from First-chunking words by adding words that go with that "chunk" Kerry from Kinder-Within a lesson use it for brainstorming, living things (insects, plants) Teresa from Kinder- Mothers day gifts with all the thoughtful words a mother is

Wired Wednesday Weebly

What a great day!

ALT Night 2...squares like music and cartoon animation

Active Learning part 2 was fun!