Choice Board For Fire Prevention Week, October 6-12, 2024....You Will Find Resources and Template To Use Here, Friends

                   

October is Fire Prevention Month and October 6-12, 2024 is Fire Prevention Week, so I have brought together resources for our students on this choice board.  I wanted to share this with all of you so you could make a copy and use it as a template to add resources that you have access to in your library.  

You will find our choice board here where you can make a copy. Once you have a copy, you can add links to your PebbeGo and Capstone Interactive eBooks, and other resources you have too. 

I included the PebbleGo article about Fire Safety and several eBooks from our Capstone Connect.  

The Cantata Learning Fire Safety series which are read and sing along books all about fire safety topics such as Dial 911!, Get Out, Stay Out and more are the perfect addition to a fire safety choice board. 

These can be found to share here on Cantata Learning's YouTube and embedded into your choice board as a video too.

And I also included the NFPA Kids site which allows all kids to join Sparky's Fire Safety Club to visit the interactive site filled with fire safety activities. You will find it here.

I hope you and your students are able to use these activities and add your own to the Fire Prevention Month.  You will find our choice board here, friends. 

The NEW October PebbleGo & PebbleGo Monthly Holiday Calendar Is Here! Turn It Into An Interactive Research Choice Board For Your Students & Teachers!

               

The NEW October PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next Monthly Holiday Calendar that our friends at Capstone create for us each month is here! 

In this post, I share more about the PebbleGo Monthly Calendars. 

I love making paper copies of these to share with our teachers and kids. 

They hang them up in their classrooms and hang them in our library too. I also share them online through social media and as an image in Google Classroom or Seesaw. 

The teachers even use the PebbleGo Calendars for mini research opportunities throughout each week. The students use PebbleGo Create to share what they learn throughout the month with the calendars. 

Here is the PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next October 2024 Holidays Calendar. 

Last year, when I was sharing the calendars with teachers and students, I thought....Hey, this would be really fun in a choice board! 

So, I opened up a Google Slide, uploaded the PebbleGo October 2024 Holidays Calendar, and added a little chalk board with text over the top.  

Then I went through the calendar and found every special day in PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next.  

For example, World Teacher Day is October 5, so they have the Teachers PebbleGo article featured. I went to PebbleGo and found the article about Teachers in PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next. 

 I grabbed the link, as shown in the image above. 

I took that link and added a linked text box around each special date. 

Now, when the kids click on a holiday, it will take them directly to that PebbleGo article.  

If you want to use the template to create your own, you will find the Google Slide here to make a copy and add links to the PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next articles. 

And to make it a choice board, just Publish to the web, as shown in this image above. 

You will share that Published Link with your students.  

I love sharing these interactive PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next Holiday Calendars with our students and teachers. They love learning all about these special days that are highlighted each month too.

I am excited to have the October 2024 PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next ready to go as we go back to school the end of the month. I hope you will find ways to use it with your students and teachers this month, and all throughout the school year too. 

Here Is The "October Choice Board Poster"....Making Choice Boards Easy & Organized For All Students To Access & Use

                 

Hi friends, 

I want to share a little tip that I have been using for all of the different choice boards we use each month.  This will help when organizing and sharing choice boards with students at school and those learning remotely.  

Each month after I have my choice boards done, I pull them together in another Google Slide choice board.  

I add each choice board as an image and link the choice board to that image.  Under the image, I add a QR code that I make in QR Code Monkey for each choice board too.  

Our teachers can share the monthly choice board posters in Seesaw and Google Classroom.  This works great for our students at school and those learning at home.  

We also print the posters so our students with iPads can scan the QR codes.  This can also be projected on the screen in the classrooms for students to walk up to and scan.  

For this month, I have created Our October Choice Boards poster that can be found here to share with your students.  If you would like to make edits or additions, you can make a copy here.

I hope you find these choice board posters helpful too. 

It's Here, Friends...Our October Choice Board Filled With Hispanic Heritage Month, Fire Safety, Halloween and More!

                   

It's here, friends!  Our October Choice Board where reading, learning, making, coding, technology and music can take you on adventures all month long. 

This month, the choice board is filled with so many new and exciting things!  I can't wait to share it with our students, teachers and families, and all of you. 

You will find the Our October Choice Board here to share with students.  And if you would like to make changes or additions, you can make a copy to edit here.

Within the monthly choice board, I do include other choice boards.  As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, I included a choice board for our students to learn and celebrate throughout the month. You will find it here in this post. 

In the October Choice Board, you will also find the Halloween Choice Board found here to share with students and here to make edits, 

the Elementary Coding Choice Boards found here, 

Our Virtual Makerspace found here, 

...and the Let's Take A Trip Around The World Buncee found here. 

I create most of my choice boards in Google Slides and PebbleGo Create. With each choice board in Google Slides, I share this with our students and teachers by publishing it to the web. 

In the image above, you can see how to do this by clicking on Share and Publish to the Web. 

The Publish to the Web window pops up that will direct you to publish to the web. It will give you a link that you will copy to share with students and teachers through Google Classroom, Seesaw and any other place you want to share this like social media and through QR codes. 

This is the link to the 2024 October Choice Board that you can share with your students. 

I also explain how I create and share choice board posters each month in this post. 

With each choice board, I also share the link to make edits and changes.  This is the copyable link to the 2023 October Choice Board.  Please feel free to use the choice board with your community and make changes to fit the needs of your learners and teachers. 

Please let me know if you have any questions or need help sharing and creating choice boards.  

A few years ago, I had a Follett webinar on choice boards that you will find helpful when learning more about and how to use choice boards and Collections by Destiny. You will find the link to the recording and resources from the webinar here in this post. 

I hope the monthly and special choice boards will give you and your students special opportunities for reading, learning, creating, collaborating and having fun all year long.