Tools of Choice

This week, we started on our tools of choice. It was a lot of fun to have the freedom to choose whatever tools we wanted to make brochures, flyers, and a newsletter with. We have used so many different tools in this class that it was hard to decide on a which ones I wanted to use. This activity will be very useful to me in my own classroom because I will always have to be creating flyers and newsletters for different activities in the classroom and outside of the classroom. I will be able to use it to publicize school plays, let parents know what is going on in the classroom, what I plan to do for the school year (like a syllabus to parents), events that we plan to do as a class around the community, or opportunities the students could participate in around the community, field trips, etc. There are tons of ways to use brochures, flyers, and newsletters around the classroom. I'm excited to have so many different sources to create them with. I will be able to find which tools are easiest for me and use them constantly throughout my career.

Video

Schoolhouse rock is AWESOME!!! It is so catchy and was one of my favorite ways to learn while I was in school. I really like the one called "How a bill becomes a law" about how bills are passed. And there are many more videos to teach different subjects with them too. They are simple enough to remember and the songs just stick in your head. I still know some from middle school. Schoolhouse rock can be used to present all kinds of subjects to students. They also repeat themselves so kids can really get it into their heads. It combines visual learning with repetitive and rhyming songs. No matter how old they are, I still think kids love them and they are a great way to teach.