Welcome To My Blog

Hillary Harper

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Awesome Teacher Created Site!

http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/jgriffin/

This site is amazing! I have used the lapbooks, rotation stations, Cinderella Around the World, parent trifold and much more. The teacher that created it is Joanne Griffin. She is a veteran teacher and is retiring this year. She is debating whether to keep her site up and running right now. Please check it out and email her. I would hate to see this awesome resource gone! She is very willing to help out if you need anything also. Just drop her an email.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

End of the Year Video

This is the end of the year video that I made to show my kids next week. I may show it when I have parents in on the 25th for a fairy tale luncheon.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Scrapblog

I love the website www.scrapblog.com It's not educational but you can do a lot of fun things on it and some items are free to use. This would be a cute way to do projects for parents etc. Try it for your self if you have time. I am not ready to invite people to view all of my pages and I don't think I can show just one! Sorry.

Monday, May 3, 2010

My End of the Year Thank You Card


I used Picasa 3 to make this card. The kids are making roller coasters in our classroom during an inquiry into force and motion lesson. That is why it says "It's been a wild ride!" This was easy and another one of my fellow teachers are using Picasa to do the same thing. Thanks Dave!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

My Class's Science Video

Love Animoto!


Saturday, April 24, 2010

Class Website

http://mrsharpersclass.weebly.com/

My class website is up and running! I think I will start using it next year. Please check it out and leave me a comment about what you think I could add or change. Thanks!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Greener Classroom

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/environmental-education/teaching-methods/63270.html?imode=1:1623

I had high hopes for this site. The first three lessons I looked at were really good. If only my printer had been working... Anyways, the lesson spanned across all grade levels and subject areas. The main topic was obviously becoming a "greener" classroom by teaching how to be "green" at home.

The first lesson I looked at talked about using the Dr. Seuss book The Lorax and having students journal about the resources that were used and that could have been saved. It incorperated science, social studies and language arts. I liked it because Dr. Seuss is a familiar person to the children and it was a new way to look at one of his books.

The second lesson I looked at was a chart of the amount of trash and type of trash found at a beach clean up. Students were suppose to find new uses for the trash that was found on the beach. I also though you could have them make a bunch of graphs with the data also. Again, it blended many subject areas together.

The third lesson plan I looked at was all about resources. It talked about consuming, saving and the different types of resources. These ideas are all in the third grade academic standards. Again it spanned across the subject areas. It included a lot of worksheets as well as hands on activities.

When I clicked on the fourth lesson plan, I was denied. You have to have a subscription, (50 bucks) to look at anymore. I'm sad now because I didn't print out any of these lessons :( They were good. There is a trial subscription, which I may get as soon as my printer is fixed!