technology in the classroom

Last year I changed my calendar to an interactive whiteboard powerpoint presentation.  I incorporated youtube video songs that teach the skills we are currently working on, a calendar page, weather graph, and other skills I want my students to have extra practice with.  They look forward to calendar time each day and it teaches lots of common core standards all at once!  The October Calendar I made for this school year has the following videos embedded in it.

All of my kids know all their letters and sounds now so we have moved on to blends, they love this song.

Our end of the  year goal for counting is 100, we are just working on counting to 50 for right now.

We are learning about coins this month in math, this song has helped the kids in recognizing coins and remembering coin values.