Congratulations 5th graders on the completion of another TV show, The Wolf Swamp Review.  Please enjoy it.

Static Electricity is certainly a concept that we all understand.  We will be starting to learn about circuit board using Makey Makey circuit boards and need to understand the differences between conductors and insulators.  Just a fun way to begin.

4th graders have been building with Lego WeDo's, and have created some super projects.  Using the WeDo software program we animated them using the iPad app "Green Screen by DoInk".  The first movie shows the student's working on the projects and the final two are the green screen animations!

The 5th graders have been creating Timelines showing their favorite books, from Kindergarten until now.  This has been a collaborative lesson from both library and technology.  They used the ReadWriteThink website and took pictures of the books using the Chrome Books.  They learned how to use the camera, save the pictures to their Google Drive and create the timelines.  Great project, and here is a Google Slideshow of some of their hard work.

The third graders are learning to be programmers.  They are learning the Scratch language from MIT and the first lesson was on choosing backgrounds, sprites and animating the letters of their name.  Here are some examples.

What fun, what fun.  Today the 4th graders continued on their quest of inventing with Little Bits.  They created bubbles and created motorized drawing devices using their very creative minds and the Little Bits circuitry.  Congrats to the great working and non-working projects, failure is part of the STEAM process!Enjoy the video

Fun video to watch about circuits.  This was the introduction to electricity and circuits sent through Google classroom to students.  Fun!

The students are learning a lot about circuits and this week we learned about movement, with different types of motors and using the fan for spin action.  The 4th graders created waving hands and spinning wheels.  Enjoy their hard work and fun.

The 1st graders are hoping for snow so they can build actual snowmen.  But in technology, they used the Doodle Buddy iPad app worked very hard to draw some very good looking snow"people".

Using the iPad App - Stop Motion - the 2nd graders tried their hand at animation.  They used black construction paper, white circles and markers to create "Snowmen"!  Please enjoy their hard work.

The 4th graders worked at making flashlights with the Little Bits today.  Each table came up with a plan for design and creation. Then we turned out the lights to see our flashlights work.  Great day!

The 1st graders have been hard at work creating "How To" writing using the iPad app Pic Collage. They wrote their sentences on paper and then typed them into Pic Collage.  Then they took pictures of themselves and friends to illustrate their project.  Enjoy the Google Slideshow showing some of their hard work.

The 4th graders today received a introduction about using Little Bits circuitry.  Little Bits creates electronics with snap together magnets.  They are powered by 9 volt batteries and then you add your inputs and outputs to create fun buzzer noises, lights and moving objects. We will start some projects using the Little Bits and craft items soon!  Enjoy the excitement.

The second grade classes are finishing up their try with green screen technology.  We used the DOINK green screen iPad app, picked their flags as backgrounds, and worked in "heritage" groups to create a short video.  I put them into an iMovie for the students to enjoy.

We had a wonderful Winter Festival with Mrs. Westhaver, so hope you enjoy watching the iMovie that I was able to create with the footage.  It was simply wonderful and the students were wonderfully behaved and engaged in the music.

The 5th graders have worked hard this holiday season to create the next Wolf Swamp Review TV show.  Enjoy the November and part of December show!

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.

The "Week of Code" started on December 5th, 2016.  We used the website, "code.org" for our coding and programming experience.  This website has coding for K-12 education with several levels of courses and many fun activities.  Enjoy the short video of the students coding!

The 2nd graders have also been working hard on Heritage dolls and stories of their families heritage.  Using the iPad app DOINK and the green screen technology, groups of fellow students came together to show off their family heritage flags.  Enjoy

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.