Learning and Having Fun!!!

Learning and having fun!

Reader’s Theater

Reader's theatre or Reader’s theater is a style of theater in which the actors do not

memorize their lines. Actors use only vocal expression to help the audience understand

the story rather than visual storytelling such as sets, costumes, intricate blocking,

and movement. Wikipedia

Reader’s theater is a great way for students to practice reading skills like fluency

and comprehension. The students in 2nd grade have been working on expressing

their reading skills and having fun through Reader’s theater. They are not only practicing

their reading skills but they are also practicing their language skills like listening, speaking

and reading for an audience. The students are having so much fun acting out with their

voices how the characters are changing their tones in the story. I know that the students

enjoy doing Reader’s theater because they are already asking me “When are we doing

another one again?”. I always take in consideration what the students like so I can incorporate

their interests in future lessons. That way I know that they are going to be engaged because

is something they are interested in.

Kahoot

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools

and other educational institutions. Its learning games, "Kahoots", are multiple-choice

quizzes that allow user generation and can be accessed via a web browser. Wikipedia

In 6th grade the students had to do research about a particular habitat of their choice and

make a slideshow about the location, climate, temperature, animals and plants in their

habitats. After they presented their habitats to the group the students had to make a Kahoot

activity. In this particular activity the students had to use what they learned about their

habitats to make questions and test how much we learned from their presentations.

The students had to make 10 questions with multiple choice answers so that we could

choose based on the information presented on the habitat’s slideshows. All the students

really enjoyed testing their classmates on topics that they were experts on. Kahoots are a

fun way for students to test themselves on what they learned and what they need to review.

Also Kahoots are a good way for students to practice and formulate questions based on their

topic and audience.

Strange Plants

In 3rd grade we are reading about Strange Plants that for some reason are a little different

that a “normal” plant. The students started by doing a KWL (Know, Want to know, Learned)

graphic organizer about Strange Plants. Our goal was to learn as much about Strange Plants

so we read a couple of books and watch some videos that showed some of the Strange Plants

that we saw in the books. The students had a lot of fun investigating about how some plants

are so different and unique from other “normal” plants like the Venus Flytrap that likes to eat

insects among others. After investigating about different Strange Plants the students had to

choose 3 plants to do a more detailed research and make a poster displaying what they

learned about Strange Plants.