Thursday, November 10, 2005

ELED 412 Social Studies Project

Mrs. Franklin talks with her 48 apprentices from
South Rock Creek 5th grade. They were commissioned
to go into the countryside and report the news.

Rachel Schooler demonstrating items in a colonial home.

Kelli Vallandingham and Mr. Schooler as candle makers.

The Schooler colonial family

Colonial home recreation

Paul Revere

The redcoats are coming! The redcoats are coming!

Red coat dude with a Dell?

To see all of the pictures from Janet Bailey's camera

visit the following website.

http://community.webshots.com/album/500515162CBUyTx

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Social Studies Project cont.

The market place near Boston harbor.
Mistress Anne Malthauer and Mistress Shannon Martin
discuss why the colonists were dissatisfied with England.
Boston Harbor which saw no less that four tea parties on this day November 8, 2005.
Pictured above is the set of a loyalist household and a separatist household
Two ladies of the time (Kristen Gaddie and Pascha Whaley)
discuss the different perspectives between the loyalists and patriots.

John Adams(Emily Elmen) and John Hancock (Bekah Brock) meet with the colonial delegates

John Adams and John Hancock sign the Declaration of Independence

The cast and crew of the "Revolutionary War Era"

ELED 437 Methods of Teaching Foreign Language

The ELED 437 Methods of Teaching Foreign Language class prepared 4 colorful bulletin boards on the themes of the seasons, the rain forest, colors, and mascots for the elementary classroom. The students involved in this class are Tiffany Daniel, Angela Newbert, Sarah Hale and Rebekah Edmonds. Dr. Litherland is the professor.


Thursday, November 03, 2005

New Books at the library



Helping Students Fix Problems and Avoid CrisesAn Easy-to-Use Intervention Resource for Grades 1-4
Authored by:
Lawrence J. Greene

"For every teacher who has been at a loss to help the student who seemed helpless, this is a resource that cannot be missed. "

This book is located in the New book shelf with the call number Q 302.07 G811HF

For more on this title see Corwin Book Publisher website http://www.corwinpress.com/book.aspx?pid=11322&sc=1

New Books in the library

Not Much Just Chillin' : The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers
by Linda Perlstein.

"Suddenly they go from striving for A’s to barely passing, from fretting about cooties to obsessing for hours about crushes. "



This book is currently located on our new book shelves in the library with the call number 305.234 P451NJ


For more on this title see the Random House publishers catalog http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345475763

For editorial book reviews see http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0345475763/ref=dp_proddesc_0/002-0337457-3096025?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

ELED 416 Language Arts and Children's Literature

Students in ELED 416 Language Arts and Children's Literature learned about text sets. Text sets are collections of narrative text, expository text, maps, poetry, and websites all related to a theme. Some of the themes included ocean life, bears, transportation, mammals, Native Americans, and holidays. Students include Lacey Anderberg, Sheila Faulkner, Cheryel Graham, Rebecca Kunz, Amanda Pearson, Amanda Winn, Danielle Blount, Mendy Richardson, Jennifer Morris, Lauren Augustine, Serena Ward and Minda Reed.







Tuesday, November 01, 2005

NEW Titles in the Library

Creating and Sustaining the Constructivist Classroom
Second Edition

Authored by:
Bruce A. Marlowe Roger Williams University
Marilyn L. Page Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Taking students from passive spoon-fed knowledge to creation and acquisition of real learning: It sounds terrific. But how do you do it? This book shows you how.

For more information on this title look at the book description from Sage Publishing online catalog.
http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=10648