Vineyard Ranch
November Newsletter
Montly Checkouts
Print Books: 3489
The number is slightly lower than last month due to Thanksgiving Break!
November in VR Library
Library Lessons
PK-Kindergarten: Thanksgiving Lessons and Thankful Cards
First Grade: The First Thanksgiving Lesson and Crafts + The Ugly Pumpkin Activity
Second Grade: Thanksgiving Lessons and Crafts + Glyph
Third Grade: Learning History of Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Fourth Grade: Inferencing Lesson on Nearpod + Choice Words using Thanksgiving Books
Fifth Grade: Flipped Read Aloud and Research using Discovery Education Board Builder
Technology Introduced:
Nearpod, Board Builder, Dictionary App, Google Classroom, PicCollage, Educreations, Google Docs App
Read Around the School- PALS
Choice Words- 4th
Thanksgiving-1st
WIN Book Club
This is one of my favorite times of the day! Our WIN group uses Google Classroom to share learning. The students listen to Flora and Ulysses read aloud and set goals for at home reading. They are assigned jobs; such as Word Wizard, Super Summarizer, Literary Luminator, Discussion Director, and Connector. The book club members get creative with apps to present their learning to the group. They upload the videos and pictures that they create to Google Classroom. The group discusses the creations and significance to the story. So far, students have used the apps Educreations, Google Docs, and PicCollage, Tellagami.
Chat and Chew Book Club
Our club meets once a week during fifth grade lunch. In November we hosted a "Chat and Chew" for the book Counting by 7’s and invited any fifth grader that finished the book to attend. We also created a Thinglink for next book Odette’s Secrets.
Flipped Instruction
The following list includes all the flipped videos created in November for students.
- Discovery Education tutorial in computer lab- Students used Board Builder to create a book report on a famous person.
- Fifth Grade watched a flipped classroom read aloud
- Nearpod
- Educreations
- Showme
- Five station directions videos for research in first and fifth grade
- PebbleGo
- Thinglink