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We talked about the meaning of money. We also explored what a million dollars can actually buy now days and that you can’t buy everything you want in the world or a house on the beach anymore. We explored the concept of winning a million dollars and that they would have to pay taxes on it. They were very disappointed on the concept of taxes and the reality of taxes. They were very motivated in learning what a million dollars actually is. I was very proud of my students who also thought not only about themselves, but of wanting to help out family and others who are more unfortunate.

My students learned about cinco de mayo. They wrote up a short summary and illustrated the drawings themselves. They used the itouch application SonicPics and recorded their summary. They had a lot of fun doing the project and are enthusiastic about doing another project with SonicPics. I am glad to see my High Point Class excited about learning and wanting to write.

My class will use Sonic Pics for their third project. They will use the pictures of a story and work with making infrences about the story. My High Point Class needs more practice working with infrences.

My High Point students will use a Rigby guided reading book at the student's specific reading levels. The students will look through the pictures of the book and make a inference about the story. The students will then read the story and see if they were right. I will model this for them before the do their project. They will record their inference in the ipods.

I will be using keynote around my guided reading groups for comprehension. We will take pictures using photo booth of the book and have the students summarize the story in their own words using the ipods to record their summaries.

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We worked on comprehension skills using the book Mouse - Deer Must Be Quick! from English To A Beat, which is our ELD program for my High Point class. My students all read a page each with expression using Garage Band . We added the pictures of the story using Photo Booth and added some music to the project. Then, at the end of the story a few of the students recorded their opinions and their favorite part of the story as part of a book talk. My students had a lot of fun creating this project which they can view it anytime on my blog or on one of the class' ipod touch at their leisure.