I don't know about all of you, but this past week I have became best friends with Oak Hill Elementary's copy machine! With all the projects I have made with our first grade class copying their templates, copying the scope and sequence of the text book, and running off copies of newsletters for parents to take home, I have finally mastered the contraption. I will be running off copies for my last activity this week and then I will have to say goodbye to my new friend. Have a fabulous and exciting last week with your classes everyone!
Kari Meyer
That is a beautiful machine! I have also made friends with the copy machine. I wish I had one at home. This is most certainly a way that technology has made education more efficient.
ReplyDeleteIt is splendid to simply be able to take (essentially) anything and make perfect copies! I noticed this week that the scanners on my college campus that the students have access to seem to copy even white paper as gray. Fairly annoying! I am also very thankful for how fast and easy it is to operate the copy machine at my elementary school!
I have also taken notice that when each staff finishes with the copy machine at my elementary school they press the reset button so the user after them won't accidentally copy too many! This formality has already saved me at least twice!
I could not agree more with this post!! Kayla and I have been challenged with this machine as well. Some days I was wondering when the copying would end. This is a very important part to realize as a teacher. Copying takes up time and a teacher needs to plan accordingly so that they can give the students all of their time in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteKari, when I looked at the title of this post, it said that you became best friends with Oak Hill Elementary's cop... I thought I was about to read about some gang bust or lockdown or something. Not that a copy machine is any less exciting ... ;P
ReplyDeleteI had the same thought as Kyle. I'm not sure if your cooperating teachers are using the same book "Reading Wonders" but I definitely had a hard time to copy the scope and sequence. The book is actually bigger than A4 size and it took me at least 30 minutes to minimize as A4 size.
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