suggestions for cursive writing

Any suggestions for teaching cursive writing to my daughter this summer. I am going to be completely honest...I want as little involvement as possible in this. More like a self paced "study". lol

Technology stinks

Once again, I am having technology issues! I cannot even get into PS! I need to add some grades but all my lovely computer wants to do is serenade me with the sound of its fan blowing!!Ugh!

Success!!

Well, Friday was a HUGE success! I will surely try this next year. Maybe one Friday out of each month. My students enjoyed the day AND they completed their assignment! :-)

Something new

So this Friday, I am trying something new. I'm allowing my students to use their ipods or phones during class to listen to music while they work on their assignment. I'm just curious how effective it will be in the completion of their assignment. When I was in school, it was a must to have the radio playing in the background while completing homework. I felt like I was more productive and successful, so I'm going to try this with my students. I'll let you know how that goes. (Even to this day if I have some background music playing while I am cleaning house, I think I could clean an entire castle in a day. :-)) I would like to allow them to bring ipads and laptops so they could type their responses, but I really don't want to get into theft issues. Maybe some day our district will consider allowing these devices in the classroom.

So glad to have all of my assignments completed (well almost). I need to send my acceptable use policy for my classroom. I have learned a good bit from this class, so far. I am enjoying sharing some of the things I have learned with my students. They really like the "power point" idea and one of my classes is VERY excited about the technology project!!