Watch another puppet show below. This boy went home after watching the first puppet show and made this all on his own (the stage and the stick puppets, etc.). He brought it to school the next day and he asked his friend to help him present it to the class. They retold the ABRA version [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ABRA'
Another Puppet Show
December 10, 2011 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: ABRA·Drama·Literacy·Puppet Shows·Reading
A Look into our Classroom
December 2, 2011 · 14 Comments · Uncategorized
We’ve been doing stations this year using the Daily Five as well as our EPearl and Abra software. I took a short video the other day to show you how engaged the students are in what they are working on. Generally, we do Read to Self, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing, an Epearl station [...]
Tags: ABRA·ePearl·TheDailyFive
A Folk Tale Theme
November 15, 2011 · 19 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 2 has started a Folk Tale Theme. Our first story has been The Three Billy Goats Gruff which is also one of our ABRA stories. We have been practicing reading this story and recently recorded ourselves reading it in our digital portfolio (EPearl). Everyone did a fantastic job. I loved listening to everyone’s expressive [...]
Listening to Reading
November 12, 2011 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
The Daily Five and our Concordia Project with ABRA and EPearl are going very well. The students are enjoying being able to choose the order of activities that they participate in. As you can see by these pictures everyone is reading and writing and enjoying it. I am so proud of everyone. Last week we [...]
Tags: ABRA·ePearl·Literacy·Reading·TheDailyFive
Concordia University Project
October 28, 2011 · 11 Comments · Uncategorized
Our class has been involved in a research project with Concordia University (Montreal) for the past two years using an interactive Literacy Program called ABRACADABRA (ABRA for short). The skills practiced in ABRA support phonological awareness, reading fluency development,comprehension development, and writing development. This is all connected to a digital portfolio called ePearl. These two [...]
Tags: ABRA·ePearl·technology
The Little Red Hen and La Petite Poule Rousse
June 15, 2011 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
We have been reading The Little Red Hen on ABRA and found out that we could read the same story on ePearl in French. A few weeks ago I set up the computer and projector for the French teacher, Madame Arsenault and the class read La Petite Poule Rousse. It was a big success. I [...]
Visitors From Australia
April 18, 2011 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized
On Friday afternoon Grade 1 had visitors from Australia. We are part of a research project with Concordia University in Montreal using Abracadabra and ePearl (a digital portfolio). Vanitha Pillay from Concordia brought Helen Harper and Janet Helmer from Darwin, Australia) to see how we use ABRA in our classroom. Each week we use ABRA [...]
Tags: ABRA·Australia·ePearl·technology
Stations
December 8, 2010 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
In Room 102 we do stations on Wednesday and Friday afternoons. We rotate through 5 different stations which change from time to time. Right now we have been doing a computer station, Read to Self station(or partner reading), Math Station, Listen to a Story Station, an ABC/ Phonics station/ or a read with Mrs. Lynch [...]
