The children love to visit the gym on Friday afternoons. Mr. Hallett always has some exciting new game to play. When I pick them up after their 45 minutes of exercise, the children are relaxed and happy. Mr Hallett is one of our favorite personalities here at Norris.

Here is the link to this weeks newsletter.

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For several weeks we have shared a VoiceThread presentation of a child acting as the Star of the Week. The rotation for the Star is over but we have not celebrated each child with their own VoiceThread. So let us continue on through the class. This week we will hear a bit more about Our Buddy Cameron.

Here is a link to this week’s newsletter.

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We are pleased to share this VoiceThread presentation of our buddy Kayla, the latest Star of the Week.

Use Pause and Play Buttons

I have been working on some professional development surrounding the use of images. It is an non credit online program designed to meet the needs of educators.

This week’s assignment for Images4Education called upon us to design an online story. Mixbook was a new program for me so I thought I’d learn more about it. This is the story I created. Problems? Yes. The site would like people to create their books and then purchase a hard copy. I am always looking for the free version ;+ As a result you will find that this book autoplays at a fast speed.

You can work around this by using the pause and play buttons at the bottom of the box. This will allow more time for you and your child to read the pages at a comfortable rate. You can also move the mouse around a bit or use the slider at the bottom of the box to go back to the page you want.

Some of your children are already reading text in books and will relish the opportunity to read our own creation. The children created the text with only a little editing on my part. Comments are always welcome! You can make viewing even easier by clicking on this link

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