QR Codes and Coins

Counting money is fun, especially when students are able to check their answers with QR codes on the iPads. 

Movie Maniacs

3rd and 4th grade have been learning about jpgs and gifs. Do you know the difference? To understand the difference, students created an animated clip art/picture with abcya animate. The animations were outstanding.

 

 

 

After we mastered animation, we moved on to the ZimmerTwins to help discover how to put together clips to make a movie.

Next, students used the iPods to take video, upload video, and create a movie using Movie Maker.

2D to 3D

ColAR Mix is so much fun. Just ask the Lower School students to make a prediction about how to make something 3D.

iPad Exploration

The construction of the new kitchen is almost done in the Beasley STEM Center. Meanwhile, students in K-2nd grade are learning about apps on the iPads that will help document their learning this year.

Question: What happens when you take pictures to document your project, field trip, or nature walk? Or, you want to explain the process of an experiment?

Answer: You make a collage using PicCollage on the iPad. 

 

How can we explain a process? In 2nd grade, students learned how to use Popplet Lite to create a graphic organizer of the frog cycle.

In Kindergarten, students experimented and made predictions about if an object would float or sink in salt water. We used Screen Chomp to record our voices to explain the process.

Colonial Times Villages

Community Construction Kit helped our third graders create their colonial times shop. Every student had a special role and typed stories about their jobs. Everyone can read about their personal journey by scanning their QR codes.

4th Grade Dinosaur Project Overview

Research and create a graphic organizer to display your findings:



Inspiration Graphic Organizer


Draw an original picture showing your dinosaur. Take a picture of it and include it in your presentation.

Create a tagxedo cover page with facts. Tagxedo must be in the shape of your dinosaur.

Make a PowerPoint presentation or movie to share with the class for your presentation.

http://youtu.be/q39W0ApU5O8

About this project: https://sites.google.com/a/parishepiscopal.org/ip21-early-childhood/faculty_midway/lisa-fuchs

Second Grade Projects and Lessons

Second Grade Projects and Lessons

Kidspiration About Me Projects with voice recordings

Graphing with Kidspiration Favorite Thanksgiving Day Food

Excel Gingerbread Houses – learning to highlight cells and read cells 

 iSpy Halloween

·         Write an iSpy poem in Microsoft Word

EXAMPLE:

I spy a ghost, two treats, a bat

A crooked window, and a crooked hat;

Two white skeletons, an orange spoon,

A pumpkin, a cat, two trees, and a moon.

·         Create a PowerPoint slide and hide objects, copy/paste poem, and record yourself saying poem

Wax Museum PowerPoint presentation with green screen photos (Middle school edits them)

 

First Grade Projects & Lessons

1^st Grade Projects and Lessons

Kerpoof

·         Make a picture and use speech bubbles to create a conversation asking one question

·         Spell a picture (rhyming words)

·         Halloween Poem with picture

·         Snowman Poem and picture

·         Fairytale Recipe with Kerpoof drawing

       

PowerPoint

·         Rebus Poems

·         Cookbook covers

·      Egypt  - Copy and Paste name in Hieroglyphics and create an outfit

·         Fairy Tale Wanted Poster

·         Valentine Disguise with green screen (copy/paste)

         

·         Thanksgiving Acrostic (typing, clip art, object manipulation, word art)

         

Kidspiration Activities

I’m Thankful for… (recording our voices and drawing some clip art)

Five Senses of Spring

A favorite December site:

Gingerbread House Math - http://www.fun4thebrain.com/addition/GBHouseAdd.html

Kindergarten Resources & Projects

Kindergarten Sites and Activities

Mouse Manipulation Skills:

http://www.tvokids.com/games/beesandhoney

http://www.tvokids.com/games/connectdotsartt

http://www.abcya.com/uppercase_lowercase_letter_matching.htm

http://www.owlieboo.com/educational-games.php

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/my-computer-mouse

Software Used:

Sammy’s Science House	Thinkin’ Things 1 Thinkin’ Things 2	KidPix	Milly’s Math House	Intro to Patterns
Trudy’s Time and Place	Bailey’s Book House	Thinkin’ Science	Letter Sounds	Kidspiration

Favorite Websites to use:

http://creative.lego.com/en-us/games/builder.aspx

http://www.abcya.com

http://www.thisisdanielcook.com/#intro

http://www.kerpoof.com/ 

·         Spell a picture

·         Make a picture (object manipulation)

Keyboarding Fun:

http://www.abcya.com/keyboarding_practice.htm

December Activities

http://www.abcya.com/snowman.htm

http://www.santaletter.com/onlinecoloringpages/

http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/snowman/play.htm?f

http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/gingerbread/play.htm?f

http://dingo.care2.com/cards/new/0422/Do-a-rain-deer.swf

http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Twelve-Games-of-Christmas-Present-Stacker-2013

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/GingerMen%20v2.swf

http://www.abcya.com/kids_make_a_gingerbread_house.htm

Ladybug Unit

http://www.safeshare.tv/w/qybzEgUWIN

http://www.safeshare.tv/w/aezzGFAgiL

http://www.tvokids.com/games/caterpillarcount

http://www.poissonrouge.com/board/

Kidspiration Activity - Counting/Drag and Drop

Halloween

http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/halloween/games/halloween_coloring_game.html

http://www.thekidzpage.com/freekidsgames/games/halloween_games/halloween-game-online.html

http://www.abcya.com/make_a_pumpkin.htm

http://www.abcya.com/pumpkin_carving.htm

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/spookyseq/spookycb1.html

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/spookyseq/spookyseq1.html

http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/halloween/play.htm?f

http://boowakwala.uptoten.com/kids/boowakwala-events-halloween-ghosts.html

http://www.scholastic.com/goosebumps/games/monstermaker/monstermaker.html

Halloween PowerPoint Drag and Drop Activity (screen shot)

Valentine’s Fun

http://www.abcya.com/valentines_day_counting.htm

http://kids.aol.com/KOL/2/koljrstories/flashholder/arthurs-valentine

http://www.abcya.com/valentines_day_puzzle.htm

http://www.theoworlds.com/valentine/

Easter Activities

http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/easter/games/game_easter_coloring.html

Easter PowerPoint Screen Shot (patterns, sounds, and click/drag skills)

Earth Day

Recycling with PowerPoint – learning to search for clip art & moving objects

 St. Patrick’s Day

http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/st-patricks-day/games/game_st_patricks_day_coloring_pages.html

http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/st-patricks-day/games/game_shamrock_streamer.html

Microsoft Excel Fun – learning to highlight

Thanksgiving Day

Microsoft PowerPoint – object manipulation & mouse skills

Computer Valentine

Starting the New Year

Kindergarten is learning how to resize objects in Kerpoof's Make a Picture and using Kerpoof's Spell a Picture to create an Arctic scene. They are also exploring the snow to create sounds, snowflakes, shapes, and ice towers with Snow Friends.

1st Grade is learning how to move things in Microsoft Word, highlight single words, and type Upper case and Lower case letters using their shift key. They can use their scroll bar, zoom in and out on a document, undo their mistakes, and type simple sentences.

2nd Grade is using REFLEX math to enhance their math skills.

3rd Grade is studying geometry and shapes in STEM. In computer class we made some fun animals out of shapes. Next week, we will tour the school and take pictures of the geometry that surrounds us.

4th Grade is learning how to edit photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements. They are having so much fun! They are using free pics from Pics4Learning and editing them with basic filters and enhancements.