Dot and Dash

For a week, during our social studies time, we have the opportunity to work with Dot and Dash. These are programmable robots. The class is working with small groups, their robot, and an ipad in order to program the robots to finish various challenges. Today the class went through "driving school" to make sure they were familiar enough to code the robots. Tomorrow, they will begin with some pretty neat challenges! 

Check them out below in action!

Special Guest Day!

What a special day it was! It was wonderful to have all the student's special people come and spend some time in our classroom. I can see that they each have a wonderful support system!

Here is snippet of their songs from the concert. Enjoy!

Publishing our Personal Narratives

We have gone through the writing process with our narratives. The class began by choosing their seed story. They needed to make sure that they were the main character in their story. Then we created a plan. We listed our setting, people, and 4 important events. We began by drafting in our notebooks. We wrote each event long with many details and dialogue. After each event (these became our paragraphs), we stopped, dropped, and indented and began with a transitional phrase. After the students finished drafting, they edited with me. We checked for a beginning, middle, and end. I checked for spelling and also the proper use of quotation marks and paragraphes. We also checked to make sure every paragraph didn't start with THEN. That makes for a boring story! :)

Now we are busy bees, typing away to publish our first stories of the year. They have worked so hard on these and I cannot wait for them to show you the final product!