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**"Proudly Serving Those Who Serve"** **Joseph Finegan Elementary**

Finegan-Mr. Windley  2/3 STAR Class Mr. Windley wanted to work on writing stories with his Second and Third graders. The students were excited to be able to incorporate their technology time into their day. On the first day, we had a discussion about what makes a story. The students told me that a story has a beginning, middle, and an end. In addition, a story has a problem and during the story the characters try to solve the problem through several events, and at the end the problem is solved. I introduced the students to Kerpoof, a creative and engaging website that they could log-on to and begin on their creative journey. Many of the students started with creating their illustrations first and then began to write. Other students started with writing the story and then worked on their illustrations to add details to the story. While walking around the class with Mr. Windley over the duration of the week, he was excited about the amount and quality of stories the students were writing. He told me that several of his students had trouble with writing a story with paper and pencil, but Kerpoof allowed them to be as creative as they wanted and gave them the chance to make the story as imaginative as possible. Enjoy their work!

**[|Antonio] [|Tahlia]**

Second Round-

Mr. Windley class and I worked on practicing paragraph formation. We explored various sites and interactive activities to support our knowledge of paragraph formation. The place that we ended up at was called [|BrainPop.com] and the students used the various activities to practice forming their paragraphs and using the resources we had discussed.

Finegan-Mr. Maxwell 4/5 STAR Class Mr. Maxwell’s class also got to experience Kerpoof as they were working on story structure also. My time with the class was shorter due to Mr. Maxwell’s schedule, but we were able to get a great start on their stories and Mr. Maxwell continued on with their work. The students and I working on what makes a story on the first day and then we continued to review it as the week went on. Their stories were very inventive and definitely showed their artistic side. Take a look at a few of the students work.

[|Tevon] [|Lattrise] [|Tabitha]

Second Round-

Creativity! Mr. Maxwell’s students chose the theme that they wanted to work with and I gave them their topic-Order of Operations (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction). The students produced their own movies using Flip cams and their own scripts. They had 3 days to plan, create and produce their movies. Take a look!

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