Blogging Community Dec. Strategy

This past month I have been integrating technology more into my small groups.  In 2nd grade I had the students use Educreations to rewrite the book, Helping Out, which is in their basal.  They went around the school taking pictures of people and themselves helping out.  They titled their new story, Helping Out at ORE.  They took the pictures, wrote a sentence on each page making sure to include some of the weekly vocab. words, and recorded their voices reading the story.  They really enjoyed using the technology and were engaged throughout the entire process.  I really had a good time integrating a new app into group as well.