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Lesson 1

To take attendance and lunch count the students take an attendance card (a piece of cardstock with their name on it). They place the card in a pocket chart that is marked hot/cold/lunch.

Using the Smart Board the children can now drag their picture to the corresponding label.

With this altered lesson the students are able to see more clearly what everyone has answered. With the old way, the children couldn't read the names and it was difficult to keep track of the cards. They can now use visual cues to learn their names and the names of their friends. I did address the absent students so we could confirm the number of students each day and what they were doing for lunch. We are also able to count the number of hot/cold/home and make tallies or write math sentences. This allows us to double check how many students are here today, how many absent, and how many all together.

Lesson 2

When working on the morning message, we use a large dry erase board. Children come up and fill in words. This is penmanship practice and work on phonemic awarness.



With the Smart Board I can display large sheets of handwriting paper. It is easier to watch how the children are foming their letters in relationship to the lines on the handwriting paper. The rest of the children can watch and learn.

The children seem to enjoy working with the Smart Board so it makes practice fun. I also use it for interactive story writing and the ideas can be displayed for everyone. It makes interactive wrting more effective for the children.