Archive for the ‘Sandston’ Category

Mrs. Tulli, the librarian, works with a group of fourth grade enrichment students.  Throughout the year, they have worked on several project.  One project that I briefly assisted on was a Petit Phillipe project and daredevils that attempted to go over Niagara Falls .  The students created keynotes about these unusual and somewhat amazing people. [...]

Today Ms. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s kindergarten classes learned more about famous people.  They told me that Betsy Ross sewed the first flag, George Washington was the first President of the United States, and that Pocahontas helped the Pilgrims.  We used  a great activity made by Suzanne Whitlow.  If you’d like to use this activity [...]

Mrs. Brady’s third grade students created a Keynote slide with movement today about the water cycle.  They did a fabulous job.  They added builds to their slide.  They learned how to manipulate the builds to change directions as well.  Check out some of their projects below. WaterCycle C WaterCycle R

Today Ms. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s  kindergarten classes worked on measurement.  They worked on nonstandard units of measurement using paperclips and shoes.  Here is what they did if you’d like to download, please click on the link below.  (The Pixie activities were created by Suzanne Whitlow.) Measurement KG Ms. Hanks’ first graders researched the famous [...]

A small group from Ms. Taylor’s class typed stories about winter.  Some typed about the snow days we had and building snowmen.  One student typed about his first time sledding.  Students learned how to use Pages.  They also inserted pictures that went with their stories. Ms. Hanks’ class had an enrichment lesson today on force [...]

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 [...]

Today I worked with Ms. Jackson’s second graders on addition and subtraction.  We visited several websites to reinforce those crucial skills.   The sites we used are below if you’d like to use some of them. Addition and Subtraction Sites Ms. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s kindergarten classes made Snowy Day pictures.  They read The Snowy Day [...]

Today was SPOOKTACULAR in Third Grade!  It was awesome!  I have never had so much fun.  We did an online elluminate lesson with the math and science center.  We learned about bats and spiders.  The students were able to touch real bats!

Today I worked with a fabulous group of fourth graders on some terrific keynote projects.  They did research on Petit Phillipe, the Twin Towers, and dare devils of Niagara Falls.  Their research was very interesting and I helped them begin putting their research into Keynotes. Mrs. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s kindergartner’s worked in Pixie on [...]

Today Mrs. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s kindergarten’s classes had their first lesson with the COW.  They were VERY excited!  Both classes learned about taking care of the laptops and how to properly handle the laptops. They practiced using only one hand on the trackpad.  We practiced on the site    http://www.poissonrouge.com/bugs/index.html.   The students had a GREAT [...]