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 * [[image:esstartech/jewels.gif width="117" height="100"]]Oak Hill Elementary **
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Ms. Fitch- 2/3 STAR classroom

The students in Ms. Fitch’s class were excited to start learning about technology and using their reading strategies that Ms. Fitch had been teaching them. We started off using Nettrekker to search each of the strategies and found several resources, including sites that would allow the students to apply what they have been learning about each one. Once the students had a few days of practice we began to focus on context clues. The students were put together with a partner to come up with various sentences and paragraphs that others would have to use context clues to figure out what the word meant or which definition was the correct one for that word. After making their examples, I taught the students how to use a piece of software called Easiteach, which Ms. Fitch was given by STAR. There is a tool in Easiteach that allows a word to be removed from a sentence and put into a word bank. The students used the tool to take out the words they wanted and allowed another student to figure out which word in the word bank fits best in the sentence they created. The students had a blast testing their friends use of the context clue reading strategy!

Ms. Bankhead- 4/5 STAR classroom

The fourth and fifth graders in Ms. Bankhead’s classroom were enthusiastic about the idea of getting to create their own movie about estimating! As I do with most of my classes, I began my time with Ms. Bankhead’s students by showing them the uses of Nettrekker, an educational search engine. My second day back several of the students were sharing with me that they had used Nettrekker at home to search other things they were learning about and found it to be pretty cool! Using what they had been learning in their class and the additional information the students learned from Nettrekker, I took the students into a discussion about estimating. We talked about the ways that it could be used in our daily lives, ways that we use it in math and what the steps were if we were making a problem for someone else to practice with. From there, I began modeling and directing the students on how to use Xtranormal to make their movies. The students found the sound effects feature to be the most thrilling. Their movies are below… Take a look!

[|JordanBeyonce] [|CharlieVictoria] [|DelarnoMaegan] [|Tavares] [|MikaylaDareece] [|NudajahBrandon] [|Jacoby] [|AngeleStephen] [|WarrenDominique]