A BIG THANK YOU to all of the students who "yahoo yodeled" for our listening center! With your help, and the help of a VERY generous uncle, we will soon be the proud owners of a brand new listening center!!!!
I was so inspired, I've already proposed our next project: a document camera. This is a VERY cool tool that we got to use for a day in our classroom when we studied maps (in particular, the compass rose). This, when combined with a projector, shows, in color, a worksheet, a book, an object--anything you put under it, it shows big and in color. It was so much fun! We read together a book that normally, would have been too small to read aloud in a group. We put worksheets into page protectors and, using dry erase markers, it became an interactive lesson (and saved us 23 copies per page!). Any small objects, such as figures for Social Studies, leaves or magnets for science, can be shown using this projector so that everyone can see! Imagine seeing magnetism in action...the push and pull of two poles of a magnet, demonstrated by teachers and students, before trying it on your own!
It's an awesome tool that I hope we'll be able to fund. The Yahoo yodels run through November 8, so I think it would be neat to try for it! Thanks to those parents at home who are able to record yodels, receiving codes to donate to our projects! We will continue to record in class as well. Here's hoping to have our next two projects funded soon! ;)
WOW! Not sure how Trey donated so much but I am glad you see my son is a very dedicated student! Hope this gets funded as easily as the others! Good Luck!
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