Archive for February, 2009

“We’re off to see the Wizard.”  Well, the movie that is.  The students, faculty, and staff of Sandston Elementary school had a wonderful treat on Tuesday.  The ENTIRE school was able to watch “The Wizard of Oz” on the big screen at the Henrico Theater.  What a treat.  The students read over 3000 books and [...]

Today Mrs. Quesenberry’s, Mrs. Turner’s, Ms. Cioffi’s, and Ms. Donagy’s third grade classes did Pixie lessons on simple machines. Students had to label the pictures, add a definition, and add some pictures of simple machines. They did a wonderful job with all of these tasks. If you’d like to do this activity, click on the [...]

Today, I worked with an enrichment group from Ms. Hanks’ first grade class.  The students were retelling a story from their basal in Pixie.  Each student had a part they were drawing and next week, they will record themselves retelling the story to make into a movie.  It should be great!  Does this look like [...]

All the second grade classes at Baker did a Pixie lesson on the states of matter. Students had to add text boxes and sort the types of matter. The students did a great job labeling the states of matter and writing about properties of each. Good job Mrs. Bell, Mr. Applegate, Mrs. Edgerton, and Mrs. [...]

In Ms. Menon’s third grade class, the students graphed the number of students in each grade.  They worked in Numbers for the first time. Ms. Schemmel’s second grade class also did a lesson in Numbers.  Her students graphed their favorite animals.

Today at Sandston, the Mrs. Moore’s and Mrs. Beagle’s kindergarten classes explored magnets. In Pixie, the students had to determine which items a magnet would attract and which items would not be attracted. Then they had to draw their own object that would attract to a magnet. They did a fabulous job! k.3 magnets Ms. [...]

Today was a tag-team effort in the library.  All hands were on deck!  Mrs. Irving read the book “The Snowy Day” to the kindergarten students.  I led a Pixie technology lesson that related to the story while Mrs. Irving and Ms. Minor assisted the students.  The students did a fabulous job and were very creative.