Mrs. Tech

I know this is a crazy time of year and that you are probably spending more time with family than with reading blog posts (which you totally should be!). But I wanted to THANK YOU for following me on my blog and for supporting my teaching journey with your sweet comments. I LOVE hearing about your classroom journey! I just wanted to make this short & sweet for you. As a way to say THANK YOU, I wanted to share with you some Graphic Organizers that I love to use in my classroom. I use them both with Google Classroom and with PicCollage. I hope that you find them useful too! If you are looking for other ones, don't hesitate to hit me up to add some new ones to the pack. I am always looking for great ways for students to share and organize information. Here's the link to the freebie ! Enjoy!  Happy Thanksgiving y'all!  Hilary 

Hey y'all! Can you believe Thanksgiving is almost here? Here are some of my favorite sites to use in class with my elementary tech students. I also enjoy using my Thanksgiving Digital Resource  to start off my class on the days leading up to Thanksgiving. I love to listen to students and the things they are thankful for and watch them research and find new facts about Thanksgiving that they didn't know before!   Happy Holiday Season!  Be Thankful. Mrs.Tech  The First Thanksgiving:  Thanksgiving Dinner Problem : Thanksgiving Puzzle:   Scholastic - The First Thanksgiving :  Thanksgiving Word Search :  Learn to Talk like a Pilgrim :  Turkey Tic Tac Toe :  Turkey Shoot :  Thanksgiving Coloring Pages : *Originally posted on 11/6/2016 on MrsTech's blog

We are big into AR (Accelerated Reader) at our school and the teachers love to see students meet their AR goals. Since I'm not in the classroom full time, I have little to do with AR and goal meeting. I had a teacher ask me, though, if I had something that would allow students to "report" on books they were reading through the use of the iPads and an app. At the time, I didn't have anything made or really anything in mind, but I knew that I could come up with something. If you follow Teaching With Appitude , you will see that she uses Pic Collage to do so many wonderful things in her classroom. Well I decided that I was going to make a Book Report Rubric to use with Pic Collage . I posted it FREE in my Teacher Pay Teachers store, so I just wanted to share it with you! I ended up using this in many of my classes for them to share about a book that they have read that they really like. I just love reading their opinions on the books (and their summaries)! Sna

Can you even believe that fall is here and that Halloween has already passed? We are in full holiday time and I couldn't be more excited. How many of you have already starting Christmas shopping!? I know I have (even though my husband think's I'm insane). Well I just wanted to stop by and share with you some of the new products that I have in my store.  This year, I got a new job as the iPad specialist (of sorts) at my new school. I am working on so many great iPad 1:1 activities, as well as lots of Digital Resources and my regular Webquest favorites. I share about what I am doing in my classroom with iPads very often on my blog . Check it out if you to see iPad tips, digital resources at work, and tips and tricks for your classroom.  These are a few of the products that I am most excited about: This bundle has 9 character qualities that the students should exude and has webquest links and iPad focused activities to learn about each one and show you what they ha