Archive for May, 2009

The blue and gold stars from Ms. Hanks class completed their plants and people needs. Mrs. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s kindergarten’s classes learned about recycling.  We watched a recycling podcast made by the Virginia Trekkers and then did a pixie activity to sort products into recycling, trash, reduce, and reuse categories. Ms. Jackson’s second grade [...]

Ms. Gioia’s class made a Keynote on maps.  Students had to recognize the United States, Virginia, Richmond, Washington, D.C. Once they complete their Keynotes, we exported them as a Quicktime. mapsmaps-2

Today, Mrs. Harrison’s first grade students learned a little more about recycling.  We watched a recycling podcast made by the Virginia Trekkers to learn what happens to the recycling that we leave on our curb  each week.  Then students looked at some items in Pixie and decided whether they should recycle, reuse, reduce, or trash [...]

Mrs. Quesenberry’s, Mrs. Turner’s, Ms. Donaghy’s, and Ms. Cioffi’s third grade classes worked on the explorer projects in Pixie.  Students recorded their voices as if they were passengers with the explorers.  This week they are going to color the backgrounds.  When I return, we are going to turn the slides into a movie. Columbus

Mrs. Hill’s and Mr. Applegate’s second graders typed documents in Pages.   Mrs. Hill’s class wrote about what it would be like if they were President.  Mr. Applegate’s students wrote about the life cycle of a frog.  Both classes did a fantastic job typing what they wrote into Pages.

Ms. Schemmel’s second graders wrote thank you postcards in Pixie.  They received a listening center.  They all wrote thank you’s to Linda G. The second graders were studying economics.  To reinforce this subject, the librarian, Mrs. Slayton, and myself, did centers in the library.  Two of the stations centered on the story, A Chair for [...]

Today I had the privilege of working with a small group from Mrs. Hobbs’ first grade class. These students illustrated plants and labeled the parts of the plants as well as the needs of plants. The students did a fabulous job. Check out their work! hobbs-flowers

Today, Ms. Schemmel’s class had to pretend that they were ancient Egyptians.  They had to create a Pixie picture with their own image in the past as a Pharoah, a Queen, a Sphinx, or a sarcophagus.