1SE: 1 Second Everyday (June 2014)... and happy summer!

Here is our 1SE (1 Second Everyday) video for June (with May tacked on to the beginning, as well) - it just flew by!

June 2014 Book Reviews

Here are the last batch of book reviews from Room 18 this school year - enjoy!

Room 18 Book Reviews (June 2014) - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

May 2014 Book Reviews

Here are the Room 18 book reviews from May - enjoy!

Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad

#eduphotoadayjune

As we told you last month, we love Instagram photo challenges, and June brings another round of #eduphotoaday, where we connect with classrooms from all over to creatively share with each other, via Instagram. We're a little late in getting going, but here is this month's challenge - be sure to follow along with us on Instagram (@mrhoeppnersclass). You can even take part yourself - just remember to hashtag your photos with #eduphotoadayjune and whatever that day's challenge is.

Les Trois Petits Cochons: filming

Today, the students worked in their groups to film their videos for 'Les trois petits cochons' (The Three Little Pigs) in French, which they have been practicing for some time now. Unfortunately, two of the groups weren't able to film today, as they were missing group members. However, the groups that were able to film did a good job - special thanks to Nolan's mom for coming in to the class to help us out with this! Once the remaining two groups have had a chance to film, I'll post the videos on our blog for your enjoyment - keep your eyes peeled!

1SE: 1 Second Everyday (May 2014)

In April of this year, I attended a conference on technology put on by the Manitoba Teachers' Society called 'Awakening Possibilities'. One of the speakers I was really excited to see was Steve Dembo, who I'd been eagerly following on Twitter for quite a while. During his keynote presentation, he talked about an app someone had mentioned to him called 1SE (or 1 Second Everyday), and the wonderful experience he had in trying this for himself. Right away, I thought to myself "What an incredible way to document what goes on at school on a daily basis!" - so often, the days meld together, and we forget a lot of what we've done throughout the year. With 1SE (and I've been using it to create a personal video of my life, to share with friends and family, as well), each second acts like a placeholder, reminding us of some of the things we did on that day. And even though we won't remember the whole day, it helps us to remember a whole lot more than we would have, otherwise.

My plan with 1SE is to create a video every month, to summarize that month at school for our classroom (which will be approx. 20 seconds). At the end of the year, I plan on putting the whole year into one video (which will be approximately 3 minutes in length). I'm sorry I didn't find out about the app sooner, as I will only have video from May and June of this school year. However, I look forward to creating videos in the future, to help my students (and their parents) remember what they did during that year in school, because... let's face it... how much do YOU remember from Grade 3 or 4?! I certainly don't remember very much!

Room 18's 1SE - May 2014 from Jeff Hoeppner on Vimeo.

Adding fractions for pizza: the big day!

As you saw in an earlier post, the students had been challenged to use the knowledge of adding/subtracting fractions that they had learned to earn a pizza party. Well... today was the big day - check out the summary of how the whole process worked with this cool Adobe Voice presentation the class put together: