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We are located in a small town in Saskatchewan, Canada. We have two grade 3 classes. We have 21 students in our classroom. They love computers and enjoy learning new things. I hope to use this tool to invite parents into our classroom and to keep them updated as to what we are doing in our classroom. Parents will be able to listen to their children speaking and to see them working. This blog will also have many links that the students can utilize from home. Have fun and enjoy our blog!

Our class is practicing their multiplication facts from 0 - 5. Check out the last two multiplication sites on the left side of our blog. Have fun practicing!

I want to welcome my new Grade 3 class and their parents to our classroom blog. It is a wonderful tool to keep parents and their families updated. As well, there are many educational links on the side that children can use for hours. If you are not sure where something is... easy, just ask your child. Have fun blogging and don't forget to leave a comment or post an email if you have a question. Have fun blogging!!!!

We are looking for students in Australia or another country to exchange flat people with. If you aren't familiar with the story Flat Stanley, a boy becomes flat from a bulletin board falling on him. He experiences different things throughout his day. We would like to make flat people to send/exchange with someone to send somewhere so that we can learn about your community. We live in Canada and are looking to send them to another country for an adventure! If you are interested, please email me or leave me a comment. we would love to hear form you!

Welcome back to another exciting year! Our class is very excited to be blogging this year! We plan to Skype with our friends in Australia so keep posted. As well, we purchased a new flip video recorder and they are very easy to use. So stay tuned for more exciting entries!

We have finished our poetry unit. The students really enjoyed learning all of the new styles and being able to express themselves. They are almost finished typing them onto their blogs. We hope you enjoy reading them.

P.S I can't believe that some schools are finished school. We are finished the very last day of June. Have a great summer. we enjoyed reading your blogs. Until next year.. ta ta.

TEACHERS**
Sorry I took so long to post the web sites, I have been out with a concussion. Anyways, here are some cool sites from the IT Summit that I went to in Saskatoon. I hope that you benefit from a few of them. Some sites are just really interesting sites to visit and try. There are sites and ideas for elementary teachers as well as high school teachers. Have fun.

The list is insane, there are so many great sites I haven't been able to check them all out. Please leave me a comment and let me know if you use any of these sites.

www.fanfiction.net- write stories
www.evernote.com- captures notes digitally
wwwkahnacademy.com- high school teaching videos
wwwdiigo.com- highlight comments, critical thinking analysis, collaboratively
www.goodguide.com- scans bar codes, info about healthy food
www.scratch.com - social site
www.skype.com - live video- interaction
www.willowweb.com-
www.dropbox.com- no email needed, 250 megabites storage, my documents,(No need for flash drives, save to dropbox and access my documents form anywhere!)
www.twittertimes.com -
www.fastflip.com -
www.instapaper.com-
www.jing.com - sound recording, movie with picture
www.jingproject.com -
www.mindmeister.com- allows you to publish mind maps to the web, others can collaborate on the web, you can put links onto them, cite and reference, add pictures, video, audio (5free, then you pay)
www.picnik.com -
www.tubachop.com- chop and use only certain parts of videos
www.tubechop.com - copy a you tube video, chop it, update it, there is a URL to embed the code into your blog
www.mapalist.com-
www.lifeyo.com-
www.posterous.com-
www.kickyoutube.com-
www.googleSMS.com-
www.avairy.com-
www.teamviewer.com- free, download and be able to fix someone elses computer from your home
www.illuminate- free, up to 3 people, mic, video, whiteboard, polling mech., chat, deliver class
www.geogreeting.com- database of buildings around the world, spells words
www.googledocs.com- spreadsheet, everyone is adding to it and it grows
www.yammer-
www.storykeepers.wikispaces.com- digital storytelling
www.learncentral.com- up tp 200 people in a room, open to everyone
www.readability.com- drag to your toobar, easier to read
www.bighugelabs.com- photos, images, trade cards
www.flickr-
www.titlewave.com- educators purchase technology items for a discounted price(In Canada, they are based out of Ontario.)
www.mapalist.com-
www.twittertimes.com-
www.line2.com-
www.skitch.com-

Good luck and have fun!!!

The last two days I have been in Saskatoon learning new and exciting things to teach my students about technology. I went to several workshops and learned many new things that I hope to encorporate in my classroom and share with my fellow colleagues. I even met a blogger from classblogmeister who has done some amazing work, Kathy Cassidy. If you haven't already been to her blog, do so, it's a must see. It is truly amazing what you can do with technology and on the internet now. Technology is changing so fast and we don't even realize it. I got the opportunity this afternoon to Skype with a grade 5 class from Regina and it was amazing. I hope to learn how to do this and post a few articles on Skype in the near future on my blog. I learned several new ideas and met a lot of really great people. I made many new connections who I hope to keep in contact with in the future. I will soon post some great sites that I got from these sessions on our blog, so keep posted and keep checking for updates.

Remember to continue to follow my blog as I will be continually updating it. You can also add me to your links. Until later, keep blogging!

Please continue to practice your multiplication facts up to 5 X 10 and counting money. We will hopefully be flying to the moon next week. Each planet on our bulletin board has a multiplication fact family on it and when we get to the moon we know all of our multiplication facts up to and including the 5 X facts. When all of the Grade 3 students have their multiplication facts mastered we get to make aliens.

Don't forget to study for for math quiz tomorrow on money. Students should be able to count money and make change from $1.00, $2.00, and $3.00. You will all do great! Have fun!

We are already practicing for our Grade 3 spring garage sale. Students are very excited to begin. I have asked my students to tell their parents that when they are spring cleaning "NOT to throw anything away." We will begin collecting in June. We sell things such as: stuffed animals, baking, girls toys, boys toys, hockey cards, cars, jewellery, trinkets, etc. I will keep you posted as it gets closer to the date. The Garage Sale will be towards the end of June.

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