Aurasma: PreDay 1

Spent about 4 hours updating all my school iPads. 

 

Downloaded Aurasma to all of them and spent about 2 hours making a short video, a handout, and took LOTS of pictures! 







Handout 

Short video (not the best video, but will get the idea across, plus we'll use Reflector in the library tomorrow)

More to come! 

Thanks for reading! Let me know how you are using Aurasma in the comments! I would love to hear your wonderful ideas!

Keep reading!

Mrs. Thakkar

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss: The Cat in the Hat Knows Where His Library Book Goes!

Tomorrow is Dr. Seuss's birthday! I didn't have anything planned, but then this idea came to me and I whipped it up for tomorrow!

Have the students look at their own books and write the call number. Then have the students think about the section and letter or number shelf. 

For example:

It may also be
Fiction:  F THA, Fiction, the T shelf 
Nonfiction: 921 THA, Nonfiction, the 900 shelf.

Yes, they are all my call numbers =) 


Want this?? I put it on TPT for free! Go get it! 

Thanks for reading! Let me know how you are celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday in the comments! I would love to hear your wonderful ideas!

Keep reading!

Mrs. Thakkar

Proud of my new lists!

How many times have students said any of these?

"I don't know what to do."

"I'm finished. What should I do?"

"I'm finished, can I go on the computer?"

"I'm finished. I'm finished. I'm finished!" 

Or have you heard yourself saying:

"Write your name."

"Did you read the directions?"

"Did you write your sentence?"

"Did you draw a picture? Does it make sense?" 

"I sure hope there are no dinosaurs in the library . . ." (maybe this one is just me . . .)

Well, now you can point to #1. 

And they will know what to do:

And maybe I can spend more time finding new things to do when they are finished. I have already promised that one day, one of the choices will be computers. Soon to be made! 

Thanks for reading! Let me know how you remind kids in the comments! 
I would love to hear your wonderful ideas also! 

Keep reading, 

Mrs. Thakkar

Little Things Make Me Happy

Did this today to my iPads.

I realize I'm behind the times. 

There are tons of posts about how you should make the wallpaper the iPad number. 

I realized that instead of making all new numbers, taking off the old numbers, and re-taping the new numbers, I could just join the 21st Century and change the wallpaper! I made the labels on my computer, and just used the iPad to take a picture of the label (on the screen and all...just take a few seconds to focus the picture and they come out great)! Then I set that picture as the wallpaper. I did this for all 13 iPads and did a special "Mrs. Thakkar's Hub" label for my hub iPad so I know which is which! We'll see how it goes tomorrow! 

They now make me even happier than before!

They also match all my labels 

(the polka dot labels I got from Teachers Pay Teachers.) 

Just buy them!

I went back and forth for so long…they are totally worth it! I use Them. For. Everything!

They make everything cute and coordinated

and make me feel cute and 

coordinated...even though I am not at all... J

Thanks for reading! Let me know how you are organizing your iPads in the comments! 
I would love to hear your wonderful ideas also! 

Keep reading, 

Mrs. Thakkar

Bonus!

Make a tinyurl - 

Find a long cumbersome url? 

www.whocaresaboutsomanyletters.com

Copy the url.

go to tinyurl.com

Paste the url, name it if you want (tinyurl.com/icare)

Send it to friends! 

I also use this when I want to send URLs to staff, students, or parents and don't want a missed period or slash to muck up the URL. This way there is less chance of mistakes and more chance of the intended audience viewing the intended content! 

Book Fair Reflection!

I wanted to send out a Thank You to all our parents and have students reflect and share with their parents their favorite part of the book fair. 

I made this:

One side has a thank you letter, thanking the parents and community and encouraging them to donate to our Donor's Choose.

Then on the back the students wrote and drew what their favorite part of the book fair was. 

Some adorable examples:

I love this ones' labels: 

 Gotta love those pointers! 

I love how this one has our Book Tree in it! And our super cool lights, they do look like they are on strings: 

Thanks for reading! Do you reflect on the book fair? Do you send a thank you note home? I would love to hear your wonderful ideas!

Keep reading!
Mrs. Thakkar

Holiday Library Fun!

Sometimes, I like to play with books and pretend I'm artistic. The "Bookmas" tree is ALL my awesome volunteers and the Book Menorah is all me! Now to think of other neat things to do with books next year...maybe a Diwali candle?

Reflector is Amazing!

Finally got my IT person to install Reflector! How cool is this??

I love how I can ACTUALLY show my students how to use the iPads without confusing them using the website on a desktop and then them going to the iPad and not having the same menus/buttons! I highly recommend Reflector!