Writing Up a Storm...On Plates, Wrapping Paper, and Cabinets

My students and I have been writing up a storm. We have been studying proper and common nouns. This week we continued our study of common and proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, and finished the week tracing the pronouns back to the antecedent while studying subjective pronouns. They had the opportunity to find the antecedent and pronoun patterns within their own writing and using mentor paragraphs from published books.  In addition to that, we continued writing about personal experiences using artifacts such as plates and wrapping paper. I have included photos of student writing and my use of cabinet and door space. I have been using my Dry Erase Markers on my cabinets and doors.

Nouns! Produced with Nawmal and Camtasia

I added some callouts to the video. Hope you find it helpful.

Nouns! Yeppers! My Second Nawmal Video!

I waited and waited and waited and waited some more! I have been waiting for a millennium for Xtranormal to come back. How I loved making videos with Xtranormal. The site went down about 3 or so years ago. Another company resurrected the company. I would check back intermittently to see when this would happen. Finally in September there was finite news that Xtranormal would be resurrected with the company Nawmal. I added myself to their website email list. They announced that the educator's site would be up by December. Today, I received an email that they are up and running. I produced two videos today using the site. Now, I can do more with my classroom and Google Sites. Yay!  Here is my first educational video about nouns. I fused some of the things that I am currently studying with my students, along with Gretchen Bernabei's Grammar Keepers. Here goes!