Welcome to Multiage University!

Welcome to Multiage University! Why Multiage University, you ask?  Every year I love to create an inviting, conducive space for learning in my classroom.  Being that I teach first and second grade, I'm always trying to think of a class theme that will excite my students and capture them from the second they come down the hall to our classroom. In a cute play off this summer's kid favorite "Monster's University," Multiage University came to life. 

To keep with the theme, our first writing project of the year was to create a "Meet My Monster" poster introducing the other Jamestown students to an M.U. monster they created.  To help learn the writing process, the students took their monster from beginning to end including brainstorming, first draft, peer edit, revising, teacher edit, and final draft.  Their product was typed in the iPad app Pages, and the students created a portrait of their monster using the app Drawing Pad. Merging the two together in pages was the final step in bringing their monster to life.  Huge eyeballs and multiple arms galore.... meet our monsters!