Smart Boards and iPods

We are working on a unit about measurement in math this week. We are trying to estimate non standard items. In the past I have had students orally voice their predictions before we measure. Today we used our iPods. We have an app called Glow Doodle.
"How many footballs wide is this football field? Write it on you iPods and show me your prediction."Kids were actively engaged the whole time! We stopped about half way through our counting to decide if we wanted to revise our predictions.

I Have Been Inspired

I have been keeping a blog with my students for a while now but I have not kept one as a teacher. This weekend as I was reading through my Google reader and twitter I ran across a First Grade Blog called The Inspired Apple and I found it, well, inspiring. Abby had a link up party for teachers to tell what makes their grade level special. There were tons of first grade teachers out there creating posts to share ideas from their classrooms. I had NO idea. I have loved looking at all the blogs and still have more I want to sort through. I am very familiar with edublogs but have not tried out blogger much. I am excited to start connecting with other First Grade Teachers.

Please visit my blog here
http://mrspatterson.edublogs.org/