Friday, December 23, 2016
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
The 3rd graders along with learning how to type, using typing.com, have also been learning how to create Wordles, using wordle.net. They type words in a Google document and have learned cool shortcuts to get their words into the program, wordle.net. To accomplish that, they have learned to use Command-A, Command-C and Command-V. The fun of course is in the creation of the wordle, and being able to change the font, layout and colors. So far we have practiced using MA state symbols, our own characteristics and traits, and spelling words! Here are some examples.
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Monday, December 12, 2016
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
The 1st graders have been hard at work in their classrooms discovering information about their family's heritage. They have colored flags and have been giving presentations in the classroom. In technology class, we used the Pic Collage app to show off their wonderfully colored flags, their picture, and their family heritage. Please enjoy these fun Adobe Spark videos.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
September projects!
The entire school read "The Trumpet of the Swan" by E.B. White, and we started out the year using that knowledge. The fifth grade created individual questions from the book and put their answers in self generated QR-Codes using QRstuff.com. Here are a couple of examples. Feel free to use your QR-reader app to check out the answers!
The entire school read "The Trumpet of the Swan" by E.B. White, and we started out the year using that knowledge. The fifth grade created individual questions from the book and put their answers in self generated QR-Codes using QRstuff.com. Here are a couple of examples. Feel free to use your QR-reader app to check out the answers!
The fourth graders took their summer reading book knowledge and created very cool wordles!
Here are some examples:
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
Here are a couple of fun ones.
Here is an example of an Electricity e-book:
Thursday, March 3, 2016
The 2nd graders are the first to try the Stop Motion app on the iPad. Their goal was to build a snowman successfully as a group and create their video. They worked well together and made cool "snowman" animation. Please enjoy their hard work. The first one is a stop motion project put into iMovie on the iPad.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
The first graders have been hard at work. Working in pairs or partner of three, they had to construct a "How To" story with 4 steps. After coming up with a topic, and writing the 4 steps they used the iPad app, PicCollage, to write their steps and illustrate the steps by taking pictures with the iPad camera. Here a two examples:
The fourth graders have been hard at work learning about Canada and the
13 provinces and territories and working on a project about Canadian
animals. We used the Canadian Geographic website: www.cgakids.ca, they
chose an animal, researched and took notes to create a Google Drawing
for that animal. After that, we practiced our interviewing skills and
used the green screen. With the Google drawing, and the green screen
interview, we moved onto learning how to use iMovie. Here are some
examples:
Friday, January 29, 2016
The second graders have been working on learning different types of landforms. We had a fun SmartBoard Activity first, then they were able to read some online books about different landforms using the Landform app on the iPads. Using the iPad Kidspiration, they worked in groups to come up with 4 clues to give to their fellow students to see if those students could guess which landform they were describing. We took those 4 clues and took it to the green screen, and created videos of our "Who or What am I"? game. Here is one of those videos!
The third graders are trying out the new Finch robots. They are expanding their knowledge of coding to make the robot move forward, back, go left and right and change colors. They will be using the SNAP code first and then move on to learning the SCRATCH programming language.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2016. Here is an update on what is happening in Technology.
The 5th graders are hard at work researching a new exciting topic - Electricity - in both library and technology. They have started an e-Book in Tech using Google presentation, but it is formatted to look like a book! Currently, they are learning the terms "insulators" and "conductors" and are testing their thoughts using MAKEY-MAKEY kits.
The 5th graders are hard at work researching a new exciting topic - Electricity - in both library and technology. They have started an e-Book in Tech using Google presentation, but it is formatted to look like a book! Currently, they are learning the terms "insulators" and "conductors" and are testing their thoughts using MAKEY-MAKEY kits.
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