Interactive White Board

We love our Interactice White Board ("Smart Board"). Only two of our eleven kindergarten classrooms have this new technology right now, so we are very fortunate to have it. We especially enjoy using it to write our Class News. Mrs. Doiron used to write this on chart paper, but now she types it on Microsoft Works, while the children watch the letters, words, and sentences on the Interactive White Board. Next, the Class News is printed out. These copies are saved and bound into a book at the end of each month. Then we push the "Show Board" button and the children can actually write on the projected Class News. Students have been circling words that they can read, such as "a", "for", "I", "it", "on", "of", "to", "the", and "we". Finally, the whole class practices reading the Class News, so students know what to expect during the day. Today's class news reads, "Today is Friday, October 15. We will stay in our classroom all day. We will do Math and Reader's Workshop. We will go to lunch and recess. We will read our STAR book. We will talk about fire safety and practice rhyming words. We will do Writer's Workshop. Ms. Brandon is coming to see us today."