Archive for the ‘Donahoe’ Category

Today Mrs. Menon’s third grade students came to the library when Mrs. Slayton, the librarian and I collaborated to teach a lesson on information acquisition.  Students chose an animal and did research using One Search. Animal Research

Mr. James’ fifth grade class worked on a Civil War Kenote.  The Keynote highlighted all the major battles in the war.  The students had to know who won each battle leading to the end of the war.  If you would like to do this project created by Frank Fitzpatrick, click on the download below. civilwarbattles.key [...]

Today Mrs. Montecalvo’s fifth grade students began a Keynote on the battles of the Civil War.  The students learned how to use build ins and outs. Mrs. Bush’s class started a Keynote today on weather instruments.  They started from scratch and added pictures, slides, titles, and definitions.  I can’t wait to see their finished Keynotes.

Ms. Ball’s kindergarten class used Pixie for the first time.  The students made a snowman.  They had to arrange two snowball from largest on the bottom to smallest on the top. Next the students took a picture of themselves to use as the snowman’s head.  Then they decorated their snoman by adding arms and hats.  [...]

I began my day with a group of five students from the multi-aged first/second grade class that I helped in a small group.  We worked on typing their stories about making a cake in Pages.  They had some very interesting stories about how you should make a cake.  They were very interesting.  Once the students [...]

Mrs. Quesenberry’s third grade class took a virtual field trip to the Parthenon in Greece.  Students took their pictures in front of an actual picture of the Parthenon using Pixie.  They had a blast.  They added speech bubbles and text about Ancient Greece.  We took each student’s picture and added them all together with a [...]

Today Mrs. Proffitt’s kindergartners practiced with the laptops for the first time.  We visited the site http://www.poissonrouge.com/bugs/index.html. 

Mrs. Turner’s students typed in Pages how they were going to have a successful year.  Each student thought about what they wanted to work on to make this the best year possible. Mrs. Harris’ kindergartner class used the laptops for the first time.  They learned how to use the trackpad correctly.  We practiced on the [...]

Today, Mrs. Collins second graders completed their keynotes on the continents and oceans.  Students added transitions and builds to their slides to make them fancy.  Some of their presentations were out of this world! 2ndContinents Mrs. Dunham’s fourth graders graphed their information from their Go Temps in Numbers.  They used 3D bar graphs to compare [...]

Mrs. Fitzgerald’s kindergarten class had an introductory lesson on the laptops today.  We did the website  http://www.poissonrouge.com/bugs/index.html.  The students worked on trackpad control. Mrs. Dunham’s fourth grade class did some exciting experiments using the Go Temps!  They gathered data with the Go Temps and measured the temperature of their bodies, tap water, ice water, hot [...]