Kathleen+C.

Hi! My name is Kathleen and I am a third grade teacher at the Winn Brook School in Belmont. I will be starting my tenth year teaching this fall. I taught second grade for three years and will begin my seventh year teaching third grade in September. I am taking this course for credit and I look forward to learning how to incorporate more technology into my classroom. I currently am most familiar with and utilize Smart Notebook along with various software programs and assistive technology. I am eager to learn a great deal more from this course and incorporate this into my classroom.
 * Assignment 1:**

One of our third grade science units is on Animal Adaptations with a focus on crayfish. We enjoy several weeks of 24 crayfish living in a small pool in our classroom and due to the nature of the curriculum, our enthusiastic students seem to learn more about crayfish than the intended animal adaptations. My colleagues and I are working this summer on strengthening this unit and Google Squared is a wonderful tool that will allow the children to view other animals beside the crayfish and then identify how each animal's adaptations help it to survive. I also liked how Google Squared allows you to add your own and therefore I was able to add the Northern Crayfish and other animals used in our Adaptation unit. []
 * Assignment 2:**

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 * Assignment 5:**

I would use the Checklists for K-12 in the Writing Tools section. This allows you to create individualized editing checklists for your students. This would be very helpful in creating checklists that are specific to each student and that would assist them in focusing on their specific correction areas. Another item I would likely use is Word Talk. Word Talk is used with Microsoft Word and will read the text written aloud to the writer as well as highlight each word as it goes along. This appears to be similar to Co-Writer and I have found this to be extremely helpful for students with reading and written language disabilities. Lastly, I would also like to try out Number Navigator as well. This allows students to solve a variety of columnar math problems using a grid system that allows them to navigate through the problem. This would be very helpful for my students with fine motor skill problems as well as when my students begin multi-digit multiplication.