Today I spent the day with N at a charter school. The school is currently K-2 but will grow by a grade per year. They do not have a computer lab, but do have 4 computers per classroom and 2 smartboards.
N showed me the website: exchange.smarttech.com where you can search for SmartBoard lessons. We found some lessons there on rhymes for the Kindergarden teachers, money for another class, and music for a third class. He pointed out that the preview function is a flash application.
I installed Typing Instructor software on the 2nd grade computers.
We modeled a rhyming activity on the Smartboard for each of the K classes. The activity had students pick a word to see if it was in a word family (ex. cat and rat). The teachers were easily able to take over this activity and the students loved using the pointer to move the words to see if they rhymed.
I met with one of the 1st grade teachers while N met with another teacher. She had a math lesson later in the day on tables and wanted to use the Smartboard to put up the tables and questions from it. I created a notebook file (my first time doing so) and made 3 pages based on the textbook. I changed the text and background colors to reflect those in the problem. At the end of the day N and I co taught this lesson with her. The students were able to take turns coming up and filling out one box on the table.
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