I returned from a two day conference on bullying Friday, and what I experienced has been on mind. I heard from a number of speakers who have spent a lot of time researching the answer to this age-old ...Read More
Third grade students are reviewing necessary math skills. Last week they spent some time looking at the word “congruent.” They watched the video from iTunes University embedded in the Mood...Read More
I just registered my students for the Doodle 4 Google contest. (Click on the image above to go to the site to register your students). My students participated in the contest last year and had a great...Read More
(Click on the picture above to go to the site) I know this is primarily a technology blog where I write about the projects students are working on in the computer lab. This IS what we are working on i...Read More
The 5th graders have been working on defining 45 geography terms for Mrs. McFall. In small groups, they wrote a definition in their own words, found an image of their term, then created a video using ...Read More
I came across this polling device on my favorite blog, Free Tech 4 Teachers. (There is a link to the right on the sidebar). It is incredibly easy to create a poll. I decided to add it as one of my fav...Read More
This is SO exciting to me. Thanks to my good friend and co-worker, Pam Cranford, I came across this site called My StoryMaker from the carnegielibrary.org website. (You can also find a widget link on ...Read More
The fifth graders are still recording their geography terms using Photobooth and a green screen. The lighting of the green screen is rather tricky, but we are doing our best. There are 45 geography te...Read More
The fourth graders have completed their Texas Day Memories project. The groups in each class wrote about a station they went to during their Texas Day celebration a few weeks ago. They used a slide in...Read More