Wii in the Classroom

This week in my classroom it was really exciting because the kids got to have their AR party. What this meant is all the kids in the classroom had read books and scored good grades on the tests they took following those books. What was exciting was that during this party the students got to use all sorts of different types of technology.

Some children chose to get on laptops and play games and create storybirds. I even sat with some of the children and watched them create all sorts of different storybirds. It was really exciting to watch them do this because storybirds was something we were learning about on a college level, so to watch them create them so easily at the 4th grade level was fascinating.

Also in the classroom was a Wii, all the students had a chance to participate and play this sort of technology as well. It was exciting to see this in a classroom because a lot of teachers do not even bother with technology when they do not have to do it. However, my host teacher does a fantastic job at introducing the children to a different types of technology on a daily basis.