I forgot to blog about this when Iwas in Florida during spring break. I met a guy who was actually a coder for websites. He was telling me all the different things he could do with a website and it was aa very interesting conversation.


I also wanted to share with everyone that I went to wordle.com after Jeffs mini presentation and made wordle pictures using my spelling words. I repeated the words that i thought were important for my students to really study and they came our larger then the other words. It is such an amazing web site

Design 2

Last week our school started using the Fountas & Pinnell Reading Assessment. It has been very frustrating for all of the teachers in my building. It wants us to do three different running records on each students and along with those running records the student will have to have a writing piece to accompany each running record. the assessment is very thorough and does give you an accurate guided reading level for the student. The problem that I think I am having with it is the design of the test. This test is design for you to work on the assessment with a student one on one without any distractions; to complete the assessment it takes about a hour and a half. I don't care how good someones class is there is no way that you can work one on one with a student with out any distractions. I have tried a few different things to keep the kidsquiet; first i had them do their centers, that wasn't a good idea because even though the students were working quietly in their centers they still whisper to each other so it was distracting to the child that I was assessing. Then I tried to assess a child while we were in the computer lab but there were a few interruptions from students that were having computer problems.Today I gave my kids busy work and I HATE BUSY WORK. I think the test needs to be designed differently in order to work in a normal classroom not one where are no disruptions and/or distractions for the teacher and the student that is being assessed.