Mar
5
Kindergarten Cow Facts
March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Feb
10
Teaching with Technology – The Electric Company
February 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
I am a child of the Seventies. My kindergarten class was the very first group of 5-year olds who entered kindergarten already having watched the first year of the new PBS show, Sesame Street. My kindergarten teacher had to rethink large portions of her curriculum because we all came to school that year already knowing [...]
Oct
26
Using Web 2.0 Tools in a Grade One Classroom
October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I was peeking around the super-cool K-12 Online Conference website, and I stumbled upon a fantastic session given by Kathy Cassidy from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. As the title suggests, she describes the ways in which she is incorporating blogs and other tools into her teaching. Here is the link to her conference session, here [...]
Oct
16
Bringing the Computer Lab into the Kindergarten Classroom
October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment
In January 2006, I wrote a post entitled “The Demise of the Computer Teacher,” wondering aloud about whether the entire format of the tech coordinator’s job should change. Almost 2 years later, the MCDS Kindergarten team and I are piloting a new model for Computer Lab this Fall, in which I go to the Kindergarten [...]
Oct
16
Doug & Richard are Amazing Too!
October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
We have two other fantastic Kindergarten teachers at MCDS — Doug and Richard. Both are also veteran teachers here, and as I discussed in the previous post, the whole K team had an incredible trip to Reggio Emilia two years ago that is helping to redefine how they teach kindergarten at Marin Country Day [...]
Oct
1
The Amazing Janet
October 1, 2007 | 2 Comments
One of our Kindergarten teachers, Janet D., was a self-described “technology timid” teacher for many years. She is a veteran Kindergarten teacher, who went with her team to Italy 2 years ago to study the Reggio Emilia method of early childhood education. As a result of that life-altering trip, they are revamping their entire kindergarten [...]
Aug
17
c/net Article about Starfall
August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
One of the websites I love using most with my Lower School students is Starfall, a reading & phonics website for small children. Here’s a link to a c/net article about why I love it so much!
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Feb
16
The Trout Blog is Here!
February 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
OK…so if 2005-06 was the year of the Duck Blog, 2006-07 is the year of the Trout Blog! To see our latest endeavor, go to:
http://www.mcdsblogs.org/trout
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Feb
16
The Duck Blog Won an Award!
February 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It appears that Duck Diaries has been awarded the special Edublog Star Award (Convenors choice) as part of the Annual 2006 Edublog Awards! To check out all of the winners and nominees, go to http://www.incsub.org/awards/
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Apr
17
My Own Little Digital Native
April 17, 2006 | Comments Off
On the way to preschool the other day, one of my 3.5 year old sons was talking (again) about his favorite superheroes and their alter egos. He began asking about The Flash. “What’s his real name, Mommy?” When I told him I didn’t know, his response was “We can look it up on the Internet [...]
Feb
6
More on Classroom Documentation
February 6, 2006 | 3 Comments
Earlier in the week I wrote about a session I was preparing on the topic of using technology to enhance classroom documentation and portfolios. The session ended up being a big success — mostly due to some brilliant clarifying questions my co-presenter, Debra Jarjoura brought to the table. We also came up with the last-minute [...]
