Archive for January, 2009

Ms. Peterson’s second grade students used Numbers to graph the favorite animals in the class. The students started from scratch and created their own spreadsheets and graphs. Mrs. England’s and Mrs. Baker’s classes completed their Keynotes on the Five Kingdoms. Students added builds and transitions to their Keynotes to snazz them up. kindoms-michael-mkingdoms-andrewkingdoms-karisma Mrs. Axtell’s [...]

Today at Donahoe, all third grade classes learned Pixie.  We did a Greece/Rome Venn Diagram.  They also had a little time to explore and make their own creations.  The third grade classes all LOVE Pixie!!!  We have plans to do more fun Pixie activities in the future.

The Mrs. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s classes did a “Snowy Day” activity in Pixie. The teachers read the book “The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats and the students had to illustrate part of the story on their own. What a perfect day outside to do this activity! I worked again with one of Mrs. [...]

Mrs. Edgerton’s second grade class did two Pixie activities today.  First, they did a name that continent activity.  This was a great review for their Nine Week Assessments this week.  Next, the students worked on an activity in Pixie where they were President.  The students worked very hard, and will probably complete the last activity [...]

Today, Mrs. Baker’s and Mrs. England’s fifth grade classes began making keynote projects about the five kingdoms.  The students did a fabulous job making the slides and importing pictures from iPhoto.  Next week, we will add builds and transitions. kingdoms-brooke-martinkingdoms-dequan Mrs. Harrison’s first grade class and Ms. Wartham’s kindergarten class, worked on a “Snowy Day” [...]

Mrs. Warnke’s class did a Martin Luther King, Jr. activity in Pixie. Students had to think about what their dream for the future is. They then had to write and illustrate their dream. Ms. Jackson’s and Miss Taylor’s second grade classes did a Pixie activity telling what they would do if they were President. presidents-jackson [...]

Ms. Schemmel’s class did an “If I Were President…” project in Pixie. They wrote their speeches yesterday in class and today they drew their pictures and began recording their speeches. Ms. Warthan’s kindergartens worked on counting to twenty. We did some great sites: http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/games/count_your_chickens/count_your_chickens.html http://www.scholastic.com/earlylearner/parentandchild/math/count.htm http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm My lesson was so exciting today, that one child [...]

I recently had some time to come up with a few Pixie ideas. Some were by request and others were off the top of my head. The majority are for kindergarten, first, and second grades. However, there is a great third grade activity. I’ve included the downloads as well. Feel free to use them on [...]

Today, Ms. Beck’s kindergarten class did a great measurement lesson.  Ms. Beck taught the entire lesson and did a fabulous job.  I only assisted with minimal problems.

Today I worked with a group of 5 students from Ms. Hanks’ first grade class.  We began a Pixie project on rhyming words.  Next week we will complete our project. Students had to find words that rhymed in the stickers and also add a text box for each word. Next I met with one of [...]