Parent/Child Survey

Shel Silverstein Scavenger Hunt

Swot

To my wonderful teacher Sheri whom I love to confuse with my many aliases, I am happy to announce that at least on my blog I was able to figure out how to unlink it from my gmail account so that my name shows up. I feel very accomplished!!!=)

This week I made a scavenger hunt about Shel Silverstein. He was a great writer. I remember when I was a child constantly checking out his books from the library at school. This is poem "happy endings" is very much a true statement to me. I always feel the best part of a situation flies by and we forget to enjoy it. We need to take a deep breath sometimes and give ourselves a moment to soak it all in. I look forward to reading the new book of his that was released last month. And even more than that I look forward to sharing it with my children. 

I really enjoyed looking through all of these kids safe search engines. I had no idea until I began this assignment that there were such a thing as a search engine that was safe for children. I think this is such an awesome idea. I home school my son and plan to use these so he can do some of his own research while doing his school work. 

Of the ones I looked through I liked Kids Click the best. It had no advertisements, which I was very happy about. The site was very inviting and child friendly. It was also made by librarian so it was book related. This is a good thing I feel because our children become to reliant on technology. 

My least favorite search engine was Squirrel net, For Kids: safe search using Google. It didn't appear very child like it was just a basic white background. It had quite a few advertisements once you searched a topic. It did have good search results.

Technology will never stop amazing me by reminding me how much we need to check and double check our work. I swear I posted this already. But I am grateful that I at least still had it save on my computer. Technology I will call it a draw today!

Rubric Research

I chose to do some more in depth research on rubric's. There was a lot of great information on them and especially how important they are to the learning process. I learned that a rubric sets a clear set of guidelines that allow the student to know exactly what is expected of them, This way they will be able to complete their assignment with quality results. The rubric is also used by the teacher to assess the work so all the students are held to the same standard.

Once the initial assignment is finished the instructor can use the results on the grades rubric sheet to group students together for group activities. They also may be able to pair students up with a tutor if they are struggling.

I found a few websites that had sample rubric sheets. Some have template so you can get a better understanding of what you need and others have rubric builders.

http://www.introductiontorubrics.com/samples.html

http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/

http://assessment.uconn.edu/docs/How_to_Create_Rubrics.pdf

http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=25

My live binder

This is the link to check out my binder. I decided to make one with some of my son's school work and websites that I use to home school him. http://www.livebinders.com/edit?id=1649479#. I will continue to add tabs to my binder as if find new worksheets. I think this is a really great way to organize all your child's work. This could also be used by a teacher organize and share the work they will be doing with their students.

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. I am going to be blogging about everything I learn. I will also blog about what I can do to make my life and the people around me lives healthier. I look forward to learning a lot and changing the world one step at a time.