Learning Labs (centers!)

This week has been exciting for the fourth graders. They have started rotating to learning labs each day. The learning labs allow them to use the laptops to blog and view science videos on my class website. This week we will look at the blog on the Smartboard to analyze ways they can type complete sentences, and remember to use punctuation in their responses. For the science videos, students will write 3-5 sentences in their science journals in response to the videos. Again, I will be checking for writing but also deeper thinking as it connects to science and social studies concepts. During the learning labs I have been able to meet with small groups for guided reading. This is always a joyful time to get students in small groups to discuss their learning and help them find strategies for reading and understanding concepts.