President's Day

This year, my 2nd graders each picked a different president to research. We used www.pebblego.com on the iPads and in the computer lab to research. Pebblego is awesome! Very easy for the kids to navigate and also reads the text aloud to the children. Students then completed a graphic organizer: Name, Number (i.e. 32nd President of the United States), and 3 facts. Next time, I will make a more specific graphic organizer and also model finding interesting facts. The kids did a great job finding and recording their facts; however, some were lacking interest. For example, fact 1: date of birth, fact 2: wife's name, fact 3: date of death. I was able to sit with some students, read through the information, and help them determine what was interesting or different. The kids then searched for a picture of their president. We used Chatterpix to import the pictures and the kids then read their paragraph. The only downfall of Chatterpix was the time limit of 30 seconds. This was a downfall, but not for all students. For some. this was the perfect amount of time. We saved the videos to the camera roll and easily uploaded to Youtube. I made a newsletter on www.smore.com that was easily shared with parents via email. The smore newsletter was also shared on the NPSD FB page and tweeted by NPSD and myself. President's Day videos via www.smore.com. It was a great project and I will definitely do it again! 

President's Day via www.smore.com