Archive for January, 2010

Today Ms. Beagle’s and Mrs. Moore’s  kindergarten classes worked on measurement.  They worked on nonstandard units of measurement using paperclips and shoes.  Here is what they did if you’d like to download, please click on the link below.  (The Pixie activities were created by Suzanne Whitlow.) Measurement KG Ms. Hanks’ first graders researched the famous [...]

Mrs. Slayton did a great lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. with Ms. Patterson second grade class in the library.  She used Pixie and had the students tell about their dreams when they grew up.  The students typed their dreams and took a picture of themselves.  I was only there for minimal assistance. Mrs. Curtis’ [...]

Ms. Ball’s kindergarten class used Pixie for the first time.  The students made a snowman.  They had to arrange two snowball from largest on the bottom to smallest on the top. Next the students took a picture of themselves to use as the snowman’s head.  Then they decorated their snoman by adding arms and hats.  [...]

A small group from Ms. Taylor’s class typed stories about winter.  Some typed about the snow days we had and building snowmen.  One student typed about his first time sledding.  Students learned how to use Pages.  They also inserted pictures that went with their stories. Ms. Hanks’ class had an enrichment lesson today on force [...]

Ms. Bell’s second grade students review the Native American tribes.  They sorted pictures to tell the difference between the Sioux and Powhatan tribes.  They found pictures that would go with the Sioux, Powhatan, and Pueblow tribes. Mrs. Thompson’s two fifth grade reading classes worked on learning the ins and outs of iMovie today.  They are [...]

Mrs. Menon’s third grade students began making iMovies about Greece and Rome.  Students began adding pictures and texts to describe the pictures.  A title slide was also added. Ms. Peterson’s second grade students worked on a science review in Keynote.  Students reviewed crucial information that they had learned throughout the first semester to prepare for [...]

I began my day with a group of five students from the multi-aged first/second grade class that I helped in a small group.  We worked on typing their stories about making a cake in Pages.  They had some very interesting stories about how you should make a cake.  They were very interesting.  Once the students [...]

Today in Ms. Leonard’s first grade class, we worked on subtraction.  We visited several websites to reinforce crucial skills.  Students worked on counted backwards and “blastin off.”  The sites we used are below. Subtraction Sites

Mrs. Harrison’s first graders learned about the sun and earth.  We did a Pixie activity to help.  In the activity students learned about noon, afternoon, morning, night, east, west, sunrise, and sunset.  They learned a lot of vocabulary!  If you’d like to do the same activity, you can download the time of day activity below [...]

Mrs. Quesenberry’s third grade class took a virtual field trip to the Parthenon in Greece.  Students took their pictures in front of an actual picture of the Parthenon using Pixie.  They had a blast.  They added speech bubbles and text about Ancient Greece.  We took each student’s picture and added them all together with a [...]