Second Lesson

The second class went much smoother than the first! Based on the chaos at the end of the last lab time, I decided to give my kids an incentive for following directions, aka listening! I don't use rewards in my classroom, so when I offered them a sticker for their log in card if they stayed with me the whole time, they were super excited. Imagine that...just a sticker! And it worked today. Everyone followed along and didn't try to skip ahead.
The plan:
Basically I did the same lesson as the first time except I was hopeful we'd get through the whole lesson. The Technology Integrator was in the room with me and she supported what I was teaching by checking in with the kids. Everyone successfully logged on, found their folder easy enough, and opened up the Impress file. Then they had to type their name on the save file as it's a read only file until they save it in their name. After that, they saved it in their home folder and then they could begin typing. I had a template with a sentence starter this month. It read: "I can't believe September is over already! The best thing about September in Room 14 was..." And here is where they were to insert their learning. We had previously discussed what they liked about school so far and everyone had orally shared in the classroom before going to lab. I think the oral rehearsal was helpful for most. Some decided to change what they had rehearsed and wrote something entirely different. This is what the student I am tracking wrote (I am not correcting his work, but will write it in italics in correct spelling after: my faverit thae was the pufball because I cude stepe on it. (my favorite thing was the puffball because I could step on it.) Most of the students learned how to capitalize a letter at the beginning of a sentence and the word "I" today. I went around and taught that individually. 2:30 quickly approached and it was time to save the work and drag it to my home box. 12 out of 17 were successfully doing this. I'm not sure what happened to the 5 that didn't get it in my box, but I was able to go in and get them later!
This lab lesson was a success and everyone was motivated to write (type). It was also helpful to have another body in the room.