By Audrey Dell (the old dog)

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Thanks to Carl Lazous and the CNN student news, the children now:

• Have become aware of every day current events! • Act as journalists, taking notes from the newscasts.• Enjoy reporting back for the follow-up classroom

discussions!

Thanks to CNN Student news, my students can now talk intelligently about subjects such as PRODUCT RECALL, HEALTHCARE, JOB LOSS, CHINA CENSORSHIP OF GOOGLE, INTEREST RATES, OLYMPICS, ETC.

After watching CNN Student News, my students and I decided that it would be great to have a

“West Point Weekly News” podcast.

So I created a script template in which they used to find and complete information about West Point: teacher feature, student feature, upcoming events, animal facts, etc. They would practice a few times and then we would record. We have been trying to

produce one weekly, but snow days and my curriculum meetings have made it a little difficult. But we are producing about every

two weeks. Enjoy an example!http://audreydell.podbean.com

Kids and VideosThe kids were SUPER EXCITED when I told them this month’s

book report would be a “BOOK TALK”

and I would be video-taping them. The cool part was that with Flip-share, I could then create a movie and send it off to

parents!!! The response from parents was great! You know many parents would still follow their kids to school if they

could. So this allowed them to be there, but not!The kids were given a rubric: Anthony

Create a poster about their book.Use two props. Cover the basic narrative elements: author, genre,

character, setting, plot. Be creative!

Here is an example! Enjoy!

Photo StoryThis project is under construction.

Using the digital camera, we are creating a “virtual tour”

of West Point Elementary School. This will be beneficial to:

New students Families moving or interested in moving to the

West Point area Hempfield residents and families

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