Fourth Graders in Mrs. Corbett’s class created interactive posters about famous authors! They used a service called Glogster Edu to create these posters! Here are a few examples of their work. You can see them all on the class wiki .
http://edu.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1298292890
http://edu.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1298292890
It’s amazing how engaged the kids were while working in Glogster! Here is a video shot from the work session.
Mrs. Devlin’s class has been at it again…this time explaining subtraction with regrouping using Voicethread! Check out their awesome projects (and leave them a comment or two)!
A few weeks ago, students at Oak Grove and Clearbrook went Oreo crazy! They brought in packages of the yummy cookies and tried to stack the tallest towers. But it wasn’t just for fun…it was part of a global project with students all over the world participating! You can learn more about the Oreo Project on Jen Wagner’s website. This was the 12th year of the project, and this time 15,501 students participated from 719 different classes.
After stacking oreos, different grade levels participated in different activities with the oreos, from science to math to writing. Many classes created Excel Spreadsheets showing the average cookie stack, or the mode, median, mean, and range of the stacks. They even used excel formulas for their calculations!
A few examples of their spreadsheets are shown below!
Mrs. Beir’s Class (Clearbrook — 3rd Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/jbvts7i9vv0drnk.swf
Mrs. Hushour’s Class (Clearbrook — 3rd Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/8uxgefi4fhqylcz.swf
Mrs. Bralley’s Class (Oak Grove — 3rd Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/ffvtfngm36n4soa.swf
Mrs. Sharp’s Block 1 Class (Oak Grove — 5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/m0584jah192g8es.swf
Mrs. Sharp’s Block 2 Class (Oak Grove — 5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/20veykortu0qnde.swf
Mrs. Mortez’s Block 1 Class (Oak Grove –5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/5dzx3hzj54xmkji.swf
Mrs. Mortez’s Block 2 Class (Oak Grove — 5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/ufijsvnfudk2xjp.swf
Mrs. Grave’s Class (Clearbrook — 5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/x5aloxuaova6kua.swf
Mrs. Hudson’s Class (Clearbrook — 5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/v8rmj830gq6q0jo.swf
Third Graders went on a trip to Apple Ridge farms this month. Despite camera difficulties, they were able to get enough photos to use for digital stories! The day after the field trips, we loaded the pictures into the iPod Touches, grabbed some microphones, and had students quickly create a “What we learned videos” using the StoryRobe App. Here are all their stories, together in one video. Check it out:
Students in second grade at Glenvar researched and created their own powerpoints about animals. They worked in partners and used a google custom search to search safe sites for animal information. Then they used the facts they found to create at least two powerpoint slides. They learned skills such as saving and opening a document, inserting pictures and text, formatting backgrounds, and using a search engine. Below are all their slides shows put together by class.
Teaching with Technology 