Week #3 January 26 30, 2015

1- Discussion about Lexington Library

Smart Board Training

Touch is all around us cellphones, GPS and computers
Why? Visual learning, interactivity
Orienting board: push the two buttons
Tabs:
Page sorter tab: images, videos, sound files, interactive activities.
Gallery Tab:
My content
Attachment Tab:
Include the fluid of your lessons
Properties Tab
Exploring the Toolbar
Dual page display
Screen shade
Capture tools
Tables
Shape tool
Text Tool: write the word selected and more to the place
Fill Tool
Customizing Pen: click on pen regular pen, calligraphic pen, crayon
Highlighter
Creative pen
Magic pen
Shape recognition pen

Drop Down Menu

Alone &Infinite
Order
Locking: I lock any image click right and select lock so nobody can move the image
Grouping
Flip: click right, select flip example: lie down
Linking: notebook page, attachment, sound web link
Reveal
Erase to reveal
457
X7
3192
457
X7
Erase it and the answer appears
Order to reveal
Cool vs Clear
Fonts grade appropriate, easy to see
What make a digital lesson effective?
Efficient, interactive
Download lessons
Even odd
Infinitive cloner
Click the dice and describe what the emoticon is
What are three different things you can link?
Web link, music
What is my content folder used for?
Put pictures

List four items you can modify in the properties tab

Fill effects, text style, object, animation
You can record your voice
Where can you find pre-built lessons?
Smart change
What format do you have to have in order to link sound?
MP3
Why would you link and object?
Enhance lessons, questions
What are two ways to write on the board finger?
Whats a shortcut for erasing?
Take eraser and circle around it
Circle the area you want to erase
Where can you find pre-made objects?
The gallery
What are five different tabs?
Page sorter, gallery
What are the different captures?
Area, window, screen, free hand
What are the different reveal methods?
Move and reveal
Erase and reveal
Order and reveal
Hide and reveal
What are the different order options?
Bring to front
Send to back
Bring forward
Send forward

What can pull tabs be used for?

Instructions reveal answers
Why use a smart board?
Enhance lesson, engage students, make learning fun
Name different types of pen
Regular, calligraphic, magic
Create a shape using the shape tool
Give it a solid fill color
Select the best pen drawings sharpens and then draw 3 different shapes
Using the line tool, show the correct time on the clock
Create a table that has 5 columns and 6 rows.
Tuesday January 27th, 2015
Prepositions of Place
Complete these jokes by putting a suitable preposition of place in the gaps
provided
1- Waiter, theres a fly in my soup.
Dont worry, sir. The spider on your bread will eat it.
2- Havent I seen your face somewhere else?
No, I dont think so. My face has always been on my ears.
3- Crime in New York is very bad. Last week a man said to me:
Do you want to buy a watch?
Let me see it first, I asked.
Keep your voice down, he said. The man next to you is still wearing it.
4- Well, son, how are your marks from school?
Theyre under water.
What do you mean?
Theyre about C level.
5- Bobby, if you found 2 in one pocket and 5 in the other one, what would you
have?

The wrong trousers, sir!

6- Is it raining outside?
What a silly question!
Why?
Well, does it ever rain inside?

Phrase : a group of words that does not contain a subject and verb.
I went to the store on the corner
Clause: a group of words that contains both a subject and a verb. A clause can be
a complete sentence.
I read the book before I saw the movie.
Because I had a headache, I went to bed early.
Sentence types
Simple: a sample sentence has one subject and verb combination
Bob enjoys soccer. Bob and Tom enjoy soccer
Mary, John and Jose eat lunch there daily.
Compound sentence: has the subject and verb combination. They are joined by a
combination. They are joined by a conjunction word and, but, so, or, yet, for, nor.
I want to go to the beach but I dont have money.
I ate breakfast, yet Im still hungry.
Complex Sentence: it has two clauses, one independent and one dependent. It
also has a subordinating word.
Time words: during, after, while, before, as soon as, by the time.
While you watched the movies, I was washing dishes.

My teacher erased the board after she wrote on it.

I have been crying a lot of since you left me.
Compound Complex: it is a sentence that has at least two independent clauses
and one dependent clause.
The independent clause are joined by a conjunction
While you watched the movie, I was washing, but I didnt appreciate it.
By the time you got home, I had already watched TV, and my roommate had done
the laundry.
Homework
Create an activity to teach children. Give commands and use imperative sentences
and expect someone to do something.
Level: 1st
Objective:
- To identify parts of the body by drawing a boy following the commands.
Warm-up: Simon Says
Instructions: Listen to the commands and draw on a piece of paper according to
the commands you listen.
Draw a circle on the top of the page
The circle will be the face
Draw the right eye
Draw the left eye
Draw the nose between the 2 eyes
Draw the mouth
Draw the right ear
Draw the left ear draw the ear
Draw the neck
Draw the upper abdomen and lower abdomen
Draw the right and left hand
Draw the right foot
Draw the left foot

Draw the toes on the feet

Resources: notebook, pens, color pencils
After the student finish to draw, they will share will their elbow partner their
drawings. The teacher reviews again the body parts.
Kids love drawing. Theyre gonna have fun doing it while learning. They recognize
each part of the body by listening to the commands and drawing the body parts.
The teacher must monitor what the students are doing while she is giving the
instructions
It doesnt matter how do students draw, the most important is they identify each
body part and follow the given commands.
Wednesday January 28th, 2015
PREPOSITIONS OD DIRECTIONS
Complete the jokes by putting a suitable preposition of direction in the gaps
provided.
Under, over, down, round, through, upon on, up, out of, along, away from.
1- I knew you needed glasses before you said a word, sir, said the optician.
How did you know that?
When you walked through the window.
2- Waiter! Do you have frogs legs!
Yes, sir.
Well, jump over the bar and get me a beer.
3- How did you get that nasty cut on your forehead?
I bit myself
How on earth did you manage that?
I climbed up on a chair!
4- The police stopped an old lady for driving too fast.
Madam, as you drove round the corner, we both thought, Eighty, at least.
Oh no, officer. Youre wrong. Ive just turned sixty.
Subordinating Words
Cause and effect:

Because, since.
Conditions:
If
Contrast
Although
Even though
Time
Before
After
While
Dependent words
After
Although
Though
As
Because
Before
Even though
How
If, even if
In order that
Since
That, so that
Unless
Until
What, whatever
When, whenever
Where, whenever
Whether
Which, whichever
Who, whoever
Whose