Archive for October, 2009

Mrs. Turner’s students typed in Pages how they were going to have a successful year.  Each student thought about what they wanted to work on to make this the best year possible. Mrs. Harris’ kindergartner class used the laptops for the first time.  They learned how to use the trackpad correctly.  We practiced on the [...]

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!

Fourth grade students at Baker learned how to graph the weather in Keynote.  They collected data on the weather with their science teacher in their science notebooks.  They then input their data into Keynote and made some terrific graphs.  Check out their graphs below. Ms. Leonard’s first grade students typed what they liked to do [...]

Today Mrs. Curtis’ first graders had an introductory lesson in Pixie.  The students typed a sentence about fall and then illustrated it.  Check out some of their awesome work.

Today, Mrs. Collins second graders completed their keynotes on the continents and oceans.  Students added transitions and builds to their slides to make them fancy.  Some of their presentations were out of this world! 2ndContinents Mrs. Dunham’s fourth graders graphed their information from their Go Temps in Numbers.  They used 3D bar graphs to compare [...]

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 [...]

Mrs. Fitzgerald’s kindergarten class had an introductory lesson on the laptops today.  We did the website  http://www.poissonrouge.com/bugs/index.html.  The students worked on trackpad control. Mrs. Dunham’s fourth grade class did some exciting experiments using the Go Temps!  They gathered data with the Go Temps and measured the temperature of their bodies, tap water, ice water, hot [...]

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 [...]

Ms. Leonard’s first grade students did a fabulous job creating pictures of themselves as if they were standing in front of the Washington Monument.  The students had to first type a sentence about the Washinton Monument and then take their pictures.  They did an awesome job! Mrs. Kowalczyk’s first grade class had their very first [...]

Mrs. Collins second graders began a Keynote lesson on the seven continents and the four oceans.  The point of the lesson was not to construct a Keynote, but to know their continents, oceans, and the cardinal directions.  Her students had been studying hard, because they could recognize all of the continents.    If you’d like to [...]