Archive for April, 2009

Mrs. Hanks’ blue and gold star groups began finding the needs of plants and animals. The students had to find and label the pictures. They used the search tool to help them find specific pictures. Mrs. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s students drew plant pictures and labeled each part of the plant. Ms. Jackson’s students reviewed [...]

Today, Mrs. Mason’s first graders had to determine the needs of plants and people. We discussed how they were alike and different. The students found their own pictures in Pixie. The students had to explain their pictures either to myself or Mrs. Mason. Many students thought outside the box. For example, for air, many students [...]

Mrs. Hobb’s first grade class played Jeopardy as a review today.  The student’s loved seeing the funny pictures when they clicked the correct answer and heard the child laugh in delight.  The students were very focused and worked hard to get the correct answers.

Mrs. Mason’s first graders celebrated Earth Day with a Pixie activity. Students sorted materials into different categories: recycle, reduce, reuse, trash. They also made a picture of themselves recycling to save the Earth. A student in Ms. White’s class created a podcast with very little assistance from me.  Ms. White gave her a topic to [...]

Ms. Hanks’ first grade enrichment groups did a Pixie activity where they had to find words that began with the same sounds. The students had to search for pictures and type the words. Mrs. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s kindergarten classes worked on patterns.  Students completed patterns and created their own patterns in Pixie.

Mrs. Harrison’s first grade students did an awesome job in Pixie drawing and labeling a flower.  The students had to draw the entire flower on their own and insert text boxes to type in each part of the flower.

Mrs. Stephens first graders celebrated Earth Day a little early. The students worked on a Pixie lesson and had to decide if they should recycle, trash, re-use, or reduce the item. The activity was very thought provoking and the students did a fabulous job!

Ms. Hanks first grade enrichment group worked on finding pictures in Pixie with the same vowel sounds.  This was a challenge, but the students did a great job Mrs. Mosher’s class learned how to record their voices in Garage Band to work on reading fluency.  In a few weeks, we are going to make project [...]

All kindergarten classes did a lesson in Pixie on Spring.  Students had to sort pictures into the correct season.  All the kindergartens in Ms. Lenzi’s, Ms. Meyers, Ms. Wodson, and Mrs. Botteicher’s classes did a fabulous job clicking, dragging, and classifying items into the correct season.

Today, the guidance counselor, Ms. Jennings, and myself did six lessons.  We did lessons about careers, choices for careers, and what you would do if you were a ________.  We used the site Virginia View.  It is a great interactive site that helps students of all ages better understand careers. http://www.vaview.org/students/k-5/careerplanning/careertown/main.cfm http://www.vaview.org/educators/k-5/careerawareness/kidsearch/kidsearch.cfm