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Learning the Tools (BJ3)

For a second grade class, I feel most prepared for standard LAFS.2.L.3.4. This standard states that technology must be known for finding the meaning of unknown words; in a sense, it is the knowing how to use technology as a dictionary. Furthermore, this standard also ensures that students know how to change words from their root, but that they also know it is still, essentially, the same word. I feel very prepared for this standard because ever sense technology was implemented into my elementary classroom, this is something that my peers and I have been doing for a very long time. I can easily give my students the resources they need to use the internet as both a dictionary and thesaurus and give them practice worksheets of looking up words, defining them, and finding root words. Another standard that I feel comfortable with is standard LAFS.2.W.2.6. This standard uses digital tools to create and publish writing, along with adult help. I feel comfortable using this tool because I have worked with applications that creates these documents, like Word Processing, so I know a good bit about how to use it. On the other hand, I am not well versed in standard LAFS.2.SL.2.5. This standard uses Mystorybook.com. I am not familiar with the website or how a student would use it to show key ideas and details from a reading. I would need to be educated more on this standard.

In the second grade CPALMS Educator Toolkit, I am very excited for the Language Arts resource for students titled "Captain Capitalization's Treasure Hunt." This resource would be good for my classroom because I would do a lesson on capitalization during lecture time (of course adding some active learning), and then I would have the students do this game on their computers, assuming that the school provides students with this technology. The game is a scavenger hunt that goes through the rules of capitalization and has the players hunt to find the capitalized words. With the school I am shadowing right now, the students are provided with computers during school hours, so I am assuming that my classroom will be the same way. I look forward to this toolkit because it engages the students by taking them on a treasure hunt to find capitalization. Along the way, there are checkpoints that the students must do to finish the assignment. In my classroom, I would use this tool after my lesson to reinforce the skill.

From the newsletter design assignment, I learned how to work with less than ideal conditions. I am used to creating letters like this on Indesign, which allows for more freedom than Word, but I learned how to stay calm while getting annoyed with the limitations and working with what I am given. Nonetheless, I did become more comfortable with my skills in Word, so when I do need to use it for such situations, I don't have to keep clicking on tabs to find what I need; I now know where everything is like it's second nature. Next time, I can improve on this assignment by better judging how much space I should leave for each subject. However, I do feel like I did adequate on this assignment and utilized any of the white space I would have had. In my career as an elementary teacher, I will definitely keep using a newsletter in my career as an elementary teacher , and this assignment has shown me what will be the perfect information on my new newsletters. 

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