Skype with Iditarod Musher Newton Marshall- 3rd/4th Grade

We're so excited to be skyping with Newton Marshall, the musher from Jamaica on Friday, March 9th ! Newton's website is: http://www.jamaicadogsled.com/

Southeastern States Slideshows- 3rd & 4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders created Powerpoint presentations on a Southeastern state.  The 3rd Graders worked in pairs (the three girls teamed up together) and the 4th Graders worked individually.  They will present their slideshows on Monday!  Here's their work:

 

Windows Movie Maker Introduction- 2nd Grade

The Second Graders worked on WWM videos. The theme was their choice; I suggested choosing something that they are passionate about. Some of the key skills they learned and practiced were:

• importing media (pictures and music)
• filling in the storyboard
• changing between timeline and storyboard view
• adding and removing transitions and effects
• changing the display time for each picture
• adding and editing titles and credits

Here is some of the work!  Enjoy!

Google Sketch Up- 5th & 6th Grade

We downloaded Google Sketch Up 8.  The kids watched the following youtube video as a tutorial.

The kids followed along with the steps that are layed out in the tutorial to create their own building. Once the kids are comfortable with the Google Sketch Up features, they will create their house as they envision it will be in heaven.

Colony Brochure- 5th & 6th Grade

The Fifth and Sixth Graders are researching one of the original 13 colonies and creating a promotional brochure on Publisher.  Below are some websites that they are using for their online research:
13 Colonies
Mr Nussbaum's website
Social Studies for Kids
History.com

Layers of the Earth Diagram on Paint- 5th/6th Grade

The Fifth and Sixth Graders used Paint to create a diagram of the earth's layers. They were expected to include one fact for each layer and to save their diagram to the server. There are some super artistic students! Way to go kids!

Birthdays of the month, tally marks n' Excel graphs- 2nd-4th Grade

As a mini-checkpoint assessment for Excel, the Second-Fourth Graders collected data using tally marks, converted the tally marks to numbers, layed out the data on an Excel spreadsheet and created a bar graph.  The data that we collected was a count of birthdays for each month of our classmates and family members.  I kept track of the count using tally marks on the white board as the students dug deep into their minds to remember when their classmates' and family members' birthdays were.  Once all of the data was collected, the students took turns converting the tally marks to numbers.  Then, with very little help from me, they were instructed create the spreadsheet and graph.  There were a handful of students who remembered all of the steps, and they proudly reminded the others who had forgotten.  It was a triumph for those who remembered and a good review for those who forgot!

Thankful for- 2nd-4th Grade

The Second-Fourth Graders are working on a simple MS Word document to help them reflect on for what they are thankful.  The document begins with "I am thankful for:" and it continues with a list of things that the students feel blessed for having in their lives.  They reviewed how to insert bullets and how to "define a new bullet" using a picture or symbol.  They also reviewed how to insert clipart,  format clipart text-wrapping, and change the font.

Sympathy Word Clouds- 3rd &4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders created sympathy word clouds using tagxedo.com for their teacher, Mrs. Paulsen. Mrs. Paulsen's father passed away on Friday. With the help of Pastor Wagner, the students listed words, phrases and Biblical verses that pertain to going home to heaven, and then they used the words to create the word clouds. The kids saved their work on the server, I printed the word clouds using a color printer, and we worked together to create a collage of the word clouds on a poster. Here is some of their work!

Scripture Poster- 3rd & 4th Grade

The students Googled "popular Bible verses" to find their favorite verse. They copied and pasted the verse to a Word document.  Then the students Googled images that were relevant to their verse by typing in the book, chaper and verse number in the search bar. This assignment was a review of many skills including using search engines and Word tools such as copy/paste, aligment, image boarder, image text wrapping, image resizing, and footer/header.

Favorite Ice Cream- 3rd & 4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders created a spreadsheet and graph using "favorite ice cream flavors" as their topic.  They learned some new skills including hiding rows in an Excel spreadsheet and using the "PrtScn" key to copy & paste an image of the screen to Paint.  Below are the images that they generated using the PrtScn key.