Today's Meet for Silent Discussions

How we use our iPads and the student-friendly chat site, "Today's Meet" to help us learn!

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This week students are studying adjectives and the typical lesson involving holding up an object and having students give a corresponding describing word had students losing focus quickly! Our lesson today centered around adjectives to describe people. Students were divided into 2 small groups and were asked to sit in a circle with their iPads. Using Skitch, students took a picture of themselves to use as their background. Next students passed their iPads clockwise around the circle. Each time they got another iPad, they had to write 1-2 adjectives describing the person whose picture they were looking at. At the end, when students got their iPads back, not only had they explored new and exciting adjectives, but they also had a picture with lots of feel good words! What a great way to start the day!

Voyage Predictions with Skitch

We were fortunate enough this year to be a part of an iBoat launch! At the beginning of the year, students got to see the boat and even voted on its name. (Mini Maine)! Today, we watched the launch video which took place off the coast of South Carolina. We will be tracking the iBoat throughout its voyage and today, we made some predictions about where iBoat would land! For this activity, we used one of our favorite apps, Skitch. We were able to take a snapshot of a map and then students used the app to predict iBoat's voyage!