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ELA standards are standards set by the state for English language arts & literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subject. There are tons and tons of different standards set under many different subject areas but one that particularly stood out to me was to use a smartboard in your classroom to teach your lesson. I do pretty well with technology and have used smartboards since my middle school years, so I feel this gives me enough experience to not be nervous to use them in my classroom.

CPALMS is a resource for educators to use specifically for those in Florida laying out Florida standards, lesson plans, videos, games, curriculum planning tool, and more. I would most definitely use the tool kits with the standards laid out for the teacher this would help ensure that I meet all standards necessary to teach my little ones exactly what they need to learn within that year to go on to higher grade levels and learn more. Also, along with the list of standards there are some recourses that come along with each one such as a lesson plan which could be extremely helpful.

Creating my newsletter, I learned so much and got great practice on Microsoft Word such as using two columns in a page and adding breaks in the page to start new sections of my newsletter. I was able to get creative with layouts, colors, fonts, and even my writing which was very fun. I also learned about hyperlinks and how to add them to text without changing the text instead  of just writing the whole weblink in the page, I’ve always wondered how others did  this so I feel very accomplished learning this function knowing it will come in great use for the future. In the future I will try keeping the information to more important things the parents will really need to focus on and remember maybe highlighting those parts in their own section and maybe adding a section on student behavior or something similar to that. I will definitely be using this in my classroom one day I think it is a great way to get information to parents on a regular basis. This is how my newsletter came out…




Check out my comments on Lucy’s blog and on Bailey’s blog.











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  1. Lucy CerpaJune 23, 2019 at 6:59 PM

    I loved having smart boards in my classrooms growing up as well!! I would love to have one in my future classroom because I found them so useful for so many different things! Also, loved how your newsletter came out!! I liked the column feature as well! I always saw people using it and never really implemented it in anything, but I loved using it for the newsletter!!

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