Getting I.T. Right!

5th graders from Ms. Scully’s class are checking out the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. They’re finishing up their Geometry unit and are on the site to look at Platonic Solids in particular. Platonic Solids are those 3-D figures whose sides are all congruent. There are five of them. The site allows you to change their size and see the proportional changes happen in real time. You can grab any vertex and rotate the figure as well. The site allows you to make the shape transparent so you can see all edges at once.

Ms. Dick’s and Ms. Skinner’s 1st graders are using Kidspiration to identify and map out different componets of weather.

Hello, Computerized Voting! Students let their Voices Be Heard!

These students at computers voting on-line for the Statewide Texas Bluebonnet Award Books! They have joined other students from over 150 School Districts across Texas to send in their computerized vote. Students need to have read or listened to a minimum of five out of twenty Blueonnet Nominees from this year’s list in order to be eligible to vote. Congratulations to all our student voters and to our teachers for encouraging students to participate in this library sponsored program.

Ms. Witschorke’s 5th graders are using laptops to get online and research the properties of natural resources. The students are also creating PowerPoints to share their findings.
Water PowerPoint

Ms. Shepherd’s first graders are using TuxPaint to enhance their unit on “seasons.” They made a grid by drawing horizontal and vertical lines, and then placed items that they associate with each of the seasons in separate quadrants.

The school day a barely begun, and Ms. Moloo’s Kindergartners are using Word to create sentences using sight words they have been working on. Meanwhile, Ms. Owen’s 4th graders are preparing for the writing portion of the TAKS test by writing letters to other students. When they are done writing and have approved their revisions with the teacher, the just grab a netbook out of the cart and start publishing.

Ms. Perch’s 2nd grader are using Microsoft Word to design/create advertisements for toys, working on their persuasive writing skills.

Ms. Rodriguez’s 4th graders are going on a webquest called “Soiled Again” to learn about the different components of soil and how changing soil composition effects plant growth.

Mr. Tidwell’s 2nd graders are trying out the netbooks by using them to create digital timelines of the lives of famous people in history.

Ms. Pettit’s second graders are going online to work on estimating fractions. In one of the activities, that have to hone their fraction skills to “Find Grampy,” who likes to play hide and seek with fractional distances.