One more week until Spring break!

One more week until we get a break from everything! We have a lot going on next week so it is time to buckle down and get our work done so we can enjoy our break!
  This week in Washington, our 2nd grade class was celebrating Dr. Suess throughout the week. Colleen Savannah and I were able to read a book to them and then do two different worksheets and a craft with the class. My favorite worksheet was the one where the students each got a bag of goldfish and they had to graph how many of each color they had. The worksheet had four columns labeled "yellow" "purple" "green" and "orange". They had to count the gold fish and fill in how many boxes of each color they had. After they had the numbers written on their paper, they were allowed to eat the gold fish and then answer questions that went along with the activity. One of the questions was "what color did you have the most of?" This was a great activity that included Dr. Suess's book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish". This lesson included language arts by reading the book, fine arts by including a creative way to do an activity and a craft, and math by counting the fish and having to solve problems using the numbers they collected. Integration is key in lesson planning. This connects to NCTCS Teacher standard 3, "Teachers know the content they teach" under the category teachers recognize the interconnectedness of content areas/disciplines. If a teacher can connect his/her lessons to multiple subjects areas and include outside information in their lesson, it will be more effective and relatable to the students lives. I want to strive to achieve this standard in my future  classroom because I think it is so important for students to be well-rounded and be able to connect different subject areas and outside information that is used in the real world.
   To continue with my outside resources with technology, I have researched about a website called "Starfall". This website was also shared at our digital learning day. It is a website specifically for kindergarteners that covers the ELA and math curriculum. There are so many fun games and sing alongs that students will love. There are also online books that can be read to the students. This would be a great tool for the students to also use at home if their parents do not have time to read to them. Instead of giving the students homework at night, the teacher could have their students play on this website and have one book read to them each night that they have to follow along with.
This is the link to the website. http://www.starfall.com/index.htm?