Welcome to MR. Gingerich's Elementary Intervention Class Weekly blog for the summer
I am so glad that you have taken the time to check out this blog.
This blog is a summer connection blog for parents to find some summer activities to help
your children keep energized and active both mentally and physically during the summer months.
What you can expect as parents.
Each week I will post activities that you can use as suggestions to
work with your children on certain learning activities. Among the items that you will find in the post are suggested reading books that you may choose some titles from and have your child read a certain amount each day.
Also, I will list some other activities such as treasure hunt and several other ones you and your child could pick as part of their leisure time activities during the week.
You can post me back if you have general questions about any of the learning activities or if you have specific questions about your child, you can email me privately to keep personal questions about your child confidential.
I will never post anything personal and specific about any student on this blog site.
Thanks again for taking time to check out this blog and hope it will be of some assistance to your family.
Sincerely,
Mr. Gingerich
Sunday, April 8, 2018
SUMMER ACTIVITIES TO KEEP ENERGIZED
Welcome to Mr. Gingerich's summer blog on activities for your children.
As I mentioned in the original orientation blog about this site, I would be listing some books that you may want to consider as reading material to keep the active minds working over the summer.
The following are book titles that you may want to consider on this weeks List:
1. A REWARD FOR JERRY
2. RETURN OF THE DAGGER
3. THE QUEST FOR THUNDER MOUNTAIN
The following are some activities of the more physical nature that you may wish to consider for some real muscle work outs to begin the summer.
Physical Activity #1 Treasure hunt - find a place where you can hide some items in places that will take a moderate amount of searching for your child to find an item (pick things that would be of some interest to your Child). Make out a treasure map. List on the map directions to find an item. Example might be take 10 steps north from the apple tree. Supervise your child as they and maybe others try to find the treasure by reading and using the map that you have made up. You can use pictures and arrows and other ways to make the reader aware of what they are to look for to find the hidden treasure. Have your child and others if possible, complete the hunt by finding all the items and sharing with the others what they have found.
The next ideas are for some real basic ideas to get some exercise.
#1 Find a place where you and your child and others, could go to and hike for a relative
amount of time. Say 10 to 15 minutes to begin.
#2 Jump Rope - get a timer and see how long your child can jump rope, also you can count how
many times that they make it over the rope without a major mistake.
#3 Kick Ball - use a kickable ball and make up a game where the children kick the ball and run to a
base or to some object. Decide if they need to get to several bases to score a point or just get
to one or two objects. Make the game up any way you want.
#4 Bean Bag Toss - You can use an official board with a hole in it or just use a bucket or something else to throw the bean bags into. The winner of the game could be someone who gets the bag into the hole a certain amount of times. Use two to four players for the game. Corn hole is an official type game like this but you can make up your own rules if you want to.
I hope this given you a couple of ideas for things to do to enjoy some reading and some fun exercise and activity games for the upcoming weeks. Please check on this blog in two weeks for the next SUMMER ACTIVITIES TO KEEP ENERGIZED!
PS. Is there anything else as far as information that you would like to see on this Blog?
Sincerely,
Mr. Gingerich
As I mentioned in the original orientation blog about this site, I would be listing some books that you may want to consider as reading material to keep the active minds working over the summer.
The following are book titles that you may want to consider on this weeks List:
1. A REWARD FOR JERRY
2. RETURN OF THE DAGGER
3. THE QUEST FOR THUNDER MOUNTAIN
The following are some activities of the more physical nature that you may wish to consider for some real muscle work outs to begin the summer.
Physical Activity #1 Treasure hunt - find a place where you can hide some items in places that will take a moderate amount of searching for your child to find an item (pick things that would be of some interest to your Child). Make out a treasure map. List on the map directions to find an item. Example might be take 10 steps north from the apple tree. Supervise your child as they and maybe others try to find the treasure by reading and using the map that you have made up. You can use pictures and arrows and other ways to make the reader aware of what they are to look for to find the hidden treasure. Have your child and others if possible, complete the hunt by finding all the items and sharing with the others what they have found.
The next ideas are for some real basic ideas to get some exercise.
#1 Find a place where you and your child and others, could go to and hike for a relative
amount of time. Say 10 to 15 minutes to begin.
#2 Jump Rope - get a timer and see how long your child can jump rope, also you can count how
many times that they make it over the rope without a major mistake.
#3 Kick Ball - use a kickable ball and make up a game where the children kick the ball and run to a
base or to some object. Decide if they need to get to several bases to score a point or just get
to one or two objects. Make the game up any way you want.
#4 Bean Bag Toss - You can use an official board with a hole in it or just use a bucket or something else to throw the bean bags into. The winner of the game could be someone who gets the bag into the hole a certain amount of times. Use two to four players for the game. Corn hole is an official type game like this but you can make up your own rules if you want to.
I hope this given you a couple of ideas for things to do to enjoy some reading and some fun exercise and activity games for the upcoming weeks. Please check on this blog in two weeks for the next SUMMER ACTIVITIES TO KEEP ENERGIZED!
PS. Is there anything else as far as information that you would like to see on this Blog?
Sincerely,
Mr. Gingerich
Sunday, April 18, 2010
What I learned about Podcasts and future use..
There certainly is a good bit to know to really understand the total possiblities in podcasting. I had some difficulty trying to download to an mp3 server on my computer and also with getting the podcast onto box.net. I think I will blame these problems on the computer. It was much more fun and interesting in making the actual podcast and trying to edit it some. The ability to add music to the podcast should certainly create alot of interest in students. I am not sure how many students have already posted links to their blogs in regards to their podcasts? They are probably much more aware of this process than I was to begin with. It would still be a very good learning process for students if they are given a project and guidelines for doing their podcast. When video is thrown in the mix, the podcast becomes a very
attention getting device for students. It is not hard to wonder that some students might choose to do some not so good things with some of their podcasts. This would be a concern for teachers. I only know the most basic of the podcasting techniques, but would like to learn more for the use of incorporating it into the classroom. I can think of students doing their reports using a podcast as one of many possiblities.
attention getting device for students. It is not hard to wonder that some students might choose to do some not so good things with some of their podcasts. This would be a concern for teachers. I only know the most basic of the podcasting techniques, but would like to learn more for the use of incorporating it into the classroom. I can think of students doing their reports using a podcast as one of many possiblities.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Delicious and Flickr - Official Blog #4
In learning about applying tags through Delicious and Flikr, it appears that these activities will be a help to both teachers and students. The student can tag information or pictures they may wish to use for class projects. The teacher can tag sites, pictures and videos that seem relavent to future lesson planning.
No longer will a file cabinet need to be filled with material that may be needed at a latter date. Both pictures and documents can be instantly saved on the internet and recalled when teachers are planning lessons or when students are sharing information with each other for a class project. The sharing aspect should be a big help to teachers once colleagues are aware of this aspect of Delicious and Flickr. I have a lot to learn about this process, but it does seem like a very quick(time saving) way to save, organize and share documents of interest. I definitely need some time saving and organizing assistance.
No longer will a file cabinet need to be filled with material that may be needed at a latter date. Both pictures and documents can be instantly saved on the internet and recalled when teachers are planning lessons or when students are sharing information with each other for a class project. The sharing aspect should be a big help to teachers once colleagues are aware of this aspect of Delicious and Flickr. I have a lot to learn about this process, but it does seem like a very quick(time saving) way to save, organize and share documents of interest. I definitely need some time saving and organizing assistance.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Official Blog #3 for Web 2.0 Student/Teacher Use of Wikis in the Classroom
Stewart Mader, an instructional Technologist at Brown University, had several insights about wikis in the classroom. http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/04/wikis-in-education-stewart-mader-from.html He wondered if fear of the unknown was holding some teachers back. He also sighted a need to move away from textbook models and toward the use of wikis, internet and technology. The would agree that this would expand the base of information that each student can pick from. He mentions that students are more accepting of change. One thing is for sure, is that they are more aware of many of the things out in cyber space both good and bad. Students in a blog about wikis http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-students-compare-and-contrast-wikis.html were extremely excited about the use of wikis in the classroom. They like the ability to share information and to organize information to study for tests. The also liked the ease of edition the informaion on the wikis. This technology certainly seems to be the wave of "now" and the future. It is hard to believe that I was unaware of most of the current web 2.0 tools for education before this class. My hope is to better understand the use of the wiki in the classroom and translate it into positive teaching outcomes in the near future.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Learning about Adding Photo Images
I have been trying to add photo images to my wiki and to my blog accounts yesterday and today. It was very slow going at first. Where are all the tech people when I need one? "My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing" by Emo Phillips/ That is exactly how I felt after two or three rounds with my computer and trying to download photo images. I think I may now have a basic idea of how to do it. It was not the directions that were the problem, it was who was following the directions! There may never be anyone that desires to view this blog or wiki, but they are for a good cause. No, I'm not going to say "These were the best of times, these were the worst of times" but it did cross my mind. All the best to the world.
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