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This was my first year teaching. What an amazing experience!! It is such a wonderful feeling when I see "that lightbulb moment", as well as, when my students are engaged in learning and having fun. This coming fall, I will still be teaching 5th grade, however, we will be departmentalizing. I will be teaching reading, writing, grammar, and spelling twice each day. The main struggle that I had this past year was not enough technology. I have two student desktop computers in my class and our grade level (154 students) shares a laptop cart with 30 computers. There were many times when my students could not finish an activity/lesson/writing prompt because the laptops were needed elsewhere. I believe the Kindle Fire tablets will be a tremendous asset to our class. This will allow my 56 students to have access to technology at any time. The Kindle Fire tablets/cases will be used to take AR quizzes, conduct research, work on Arts Integration projects, as well as, during center/rotation time. Each quarter students work toward their AR (Accelerated Reader) goal. When they finish a book, they take an AR quiz to earn points toward their goal. My students are always researching something on the internet. It was extremely difficult with two computers and 28 students. I teach at an Arts Integration Charter School. Students are required twice a year to work on an in depth project, as well as, integrate the arts as much as possible in activities/lessons. I took a technology class this past semester to further my education/experiences with technology in the classroom. I learned about many programs/techniques that I can incorporate in my daily lessons. My students enjoyed Scratch(coding), recording skits, as well as, writing/narrating/audio recording their own stories. Thank you!!!

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This was my first year teaching. What an amazing experience!! It is such a wonderful feeling when I see "that lightbulb moment", as well as, when my students are engaged in learning and having fun. This coming fall, I will still be teaching 5th grade, however, we will be departmentalizing. I will be teaching reading, writing, grammar, and spelling twice each day. The main struggle that I had this past year was not enough technology. I have two student desktop computers in my class and our grade level (154 students) shares a laptop cart with 30 computers. There were many times when my students could not finish an activity/lesson/writing prompt because the laptops were needed elsewhere. I believe the Kindle Fire tablets will be a tremendous asset to our class. This will allow my 56 students to have access to technology at any time. The Kindle Fire tablets/cases will be used to take AR quizzes, conduct research, work on Arts Integration projects, as well as, during center/rotation time. Each quarter students work toward their AR (Accelerated Reader) goal. When they finish a book, they take an AR quiz to earn points toward their goal. My students are always researching something on the internet. It was extremely difficult with two computers and 28 students. I teach at an Arts Integration Charter School. Students are required twice a year to work on an in depth project, as well as, integrate the arts as much as possible in activities/lessons. I took a technology class this past semester to further my education/experiences with technology in the classroom. I learned about many programs/techniques that I can incorporate in my daily lessons. My students enjoyed Scratch(coding), recording skits, as well as, writing/narrating/audio recording their own stories. Thank you!!!

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