CRCT Week

We're taking a break this week because the students are taking the CRCT standardized test all this week and Ms. Perry will be teaching science during the place of the Writer's Workshop this week. Our video collaboration is part of the Writer's Workshop curriculum, as it helps the students with storytelling...using video as a medium instead of traditional paper and pencil.

Exciting news: we got a friend to sponsor part of this project. He prefers to remain anonymous, so I'm going to refer to him as Mr. S (for sponsor). We are so grateful! Mr. S bought 4 plastic, kid-friendly video cameras that Ms. Perry and I hope to send home with the students as part of our project. The cameras arrived last week. I haven't seen them yet, but according to Mr. S the resolution is not great. He taped a test inside and said it's nearly impossible to see.

I'm going to pick a camera up tonight and do my own test. If we have to we can ask the students to do their taping outside during daylight hours on sunny afternoons and evenings.