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School’s back in session. In most elementary classrooms around the country you find teachers taking digital photos of their students on the original day. What may you do with those pictures? Do you need some new, fresh ideas? Here are a lot of ideas: *Create a bulletin board with the person photos and then carry on to build a collage of the learning that happens inside your classroom. This could be a yearlong project! *Take a photo on the introductory day of each month of each child to show how he changes all around the year. *Put the photos together into a slideshow to be employed for the duration of Open House/Curriculum Night. *Have each child fold a piece of construction paper in half like a greeting card and put their photo on the back. Describe themselves inside, and decorate the cover. If you keep them mystery while working on them, the teacher could pull one out, part with the class, and have the class guess which classmate it is about. A great way for getting to know each other! *Make merchandising cards with the photo and key data on the front, and interests on the back. *Make a “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Who do you See?” book with the classmates. “Sarah, Sarah, Who do you See?” Students take turns taking the book home so families become intimate with their child’s class. *Create picture schedules for the class to follow. Photograph locatings and actions in the building and classroom. *Have students fetch in photos from around home and unforgettable times with family and friends to keep in the writing folder to eliminate the “I don’t recognise what to write about” complaint. *When talking about class rules, take pictures of what rectify conduct looks like in order to reinforce the rule. This could also be a school-wide display of proper etiquette in the lunchroom, playground, library, hallway, etc. *Do your students work in teams or table groups? Instead of just hanging up a group name, have the group pose in interesting manners and use that as the group label. *Put a dissimilar child’s picture in the newsletter each week and write an article when it comes to him. These are just a few ways to commence the school year with your digital camera. The camera may play such an instrumental role in your classroom. |
