Observations in 5th grade

Hey Guys,
Last semester I went to a local elementary school to watch how the teachers in the public schools taught these days. I was happy to find out that there were many classrooms that had many new technologies in them. One classroom even had a Karaoke machine and the students would go up to the microphone and read what they had written in their journals the previous morning. Some teachers even used video clips to catch the students' attention. During a Language Arts section of a class, the teacher showed a clip of a tornado. The students had to watch the clip and write down what some good sentences would be. They then stood up in front of the class and read their sentences out loud. Boy, kids have some wild imaginations.