Day Ten (Tuesday July 19th)

Wow!! I think that is the best word to sum up today's presentations from our Book Creator assignment. The ideas that came out of them are amazing and I'm looking forward to using many of them in my own classroom. It was a challenge to do but here is a list of my top activities/lessons (it turned out to be a long list...):

• Way to introduce new staff to the school, where to find things, what expectations are, etc... (Staff Handbook)
• School Rules (Game Show idea as an example)
• Library Resource/Inventory - linked to e-books or Tumblebooks
• Friend Wanted - create an add describe the kind of friend you are looking for
• Family Album
• Doers & Dreamers Guide
• Timeline to represent your life or list of events
• Choose which direction you want the book to go and click on the link to follow which direction you choose
• Curriculum Night Guide - include students in it
• Show student progression in subject areas over the course of the year
• Mindfulness Walk - looking for items to match colours in the rainbow
• Videos on body language - what is it telling you??
• Social Stories
• Yearbook
• Visual Schedule
• Visual Dictionary
• Tour of space (link rubric directly into Book Creator)
• Elevator Pitches or other oral presentations
• 2 minute rant
• School Newspaper
• Interactive Cookbooks
• Collaborative Class Trip Reflection
• Student Portfolio
• Interactive Non-fiction Book
• Videotaping self saying sounds to watch shape of mouth as saying each sound
• ABC Book (letter/sound correspondence)
• Book Reviews
• Patterns
• Proof Reading Rules
• Family Tree
• Artist Study
• I Spy
• Challenges Friends Face...
• How to...
• Safety Guide
• Culture Book
• Poetic Devices
• Math Riddles
• Comic Books