February is flying by!

I started my classroom blog. I polled my parents and they were very excited for me to start it so...I did and I am so happy. I actually got to plan during my prep time instead of updating and making copies! And my partner teacher is interested in learning how to blog so I showed her my class blog and she wants to start her own. I know sh will need a little prompting now and then but I am excited that blogging fever is spreading. Here is my class blog: http://bayparkroom12.blogspot.com/

I also started using Bookr with my kids during Interactive/Shared Writing. We made two "practice" books, Big Cats and The Bug Book. I linked The Bug Book to my class blog so the parents can see it. The kids are so excited to use it, I promised them that after they made a few books with me that they could start using the computer lab to make their own books. Now I need to teach my parent volunteers how to use Bookr! I am glad Terri made the suggestion of creating my own folder for Flickr images. I was wondering how to make the whole process safe for my 5 year olds.

This month is so crazy! We have Valentine's Day coming up this week (thank God for my co-room parents!), then next week we have our 100th Day Celebration the following week. I love that I can post the pictures from these events onto my class blog!