Journal One - Refine - How will I use what I learned in my classroom?

Refine – How will I use what I learned in my classroom? I want to touch quickly on the technology ideas in Chapter 26. For myself, I need to use more technology. The first thing I have found to do is add some more assignments to my ELL student’s Success Maker programs. I am also going to do just what I showed everyone to do and add a story page to my class website. I just hope the families use it! Chapter Five had some great ideas in it. Unfortunately, one of the things that jumped out me, as a kindergarten teacher, was dramatic play. I wish we still had dramatic play in our classrooms, but it has pretty much been taken away from us. I feel though that I can try to make up for some of this by some mini readers theater and having the children act out some well- known stories. Right now, the children are taking turns acting out The Three Bears while I act as narrator. They love it! My classroom has lots and lots of writing in it, but I am going to add some more after reading chapter 5. I am going to post a message board. I will post the first message and see if children will respond. I am sure I will need to encourage this at first. I am also going to post our daily schedule. This is already in our room, but I am going to do a more personalized one each day. I love the section on family literacy programs. We make books in class and I am going to go out on a big limb (for me) and send them home for the children to share with their families. Thinking positively that they will come back! We do cooking every Friday, and the children all keep journals, but maybe we could work on and make a class cookbook that could go home with a different child each evening. I will admit, I have “lost” a few books sending them home so this is a big step for me. I really enjoyed this chapter – it reinforced in me why I love literacy so much.