Szychlinski/Reflection1

• Because we will be creating a fifth and sixth grade house next year, we will be able to use the baseball trading card idea to build community around a "Welcome to our Team" theme. If the teachers create cards to introduce ourselves outside of our doors on the "Meet the Teacher" night, we can then have the students create their own throughout the first two days of school to display around our pod.
• When doing personal narratives during second quarter, I can have students (possibly for extra credit?) create a photo personal narrative presentation in IMovie to tell a creative nonfiction story from their lives, using photos, voiceover, etc. to add visual and sound components to their stories.
• When learning new literary vocabulary terms that will appear rather abstract to students at first glance, I can attach a photo to the term and use it every time that word is used in guiding questions or teaching points on the Smartboard to give students a visual representation to remember the meaning or use of the term. As we continue throughout the year, we can take student ideas to attach to the terms and make them responsible for choosing and taking the image.