Last week Mrs. Dawe’s students created Thinglinks on the ocean floor. This is a great Web 2.0 tool for labeling diagrams and pictures. Check out their work by hovering your cursor over the “hot spots” each student tagged:
Kindergartners at Chamberlayne Elementary created Scarecrows of themselves and drew a picture about what they like to do during the fall season (using Stephanie Wright’s Pixie template)
First graders at Glen Allen Elementary had fun with skip counting. We first “warmed up” our brains by practicing a fun Balloon Pop Skip Counting game. Click {HERE} to take you to the website. Then we made creative representations of skip counting using Pixie:
As the final “challenge”, the students practiced skip counting on a website that has hot air balloons floating up around the Washington Monument. They had just finished learning about the patriotic symbols in Social Studies and were excited about this activity! I really liked this activity because it challenged the students to think about skip counting in a different way. For instance, if we were skip counting by 2s, we wouldn’t always start at zero. The website even threw in odd numbers that the students had to keep adding 2 to.
Mrs. Curfman invited me into her room last Wednesday to help out with her map project. She had her students create a fantasy island using Pixie. Mrs. Curfman walked her students step by step through drawing an island surrounded by water, providing a compass rose, locating buildings and making a legend. 
Ms. Taylor, Mrs. Ketchum, Mrs. Turner and a few other teachers invited me into their classrooms to do a graphing lesson. Some of the teachers had their students collect their own data to graph while others used my graphing task cards (email me if you would like a copy of these task cards!). I love this easy to use and kid friendly graphing website: Math is Fun. Most of the classes made bar graphs. However, with one click of a button the students could see their data represented by a pie graph as well as a line graph. We printed the graphs and each graph had enough room below for the students to write their own questions about their graph. Everyone had a fun time exchanging graphs and answering their classmate’s questions.
Last but not least, Mrs. Ives had her 4th graders create Comic Life templates on one of the Native American tribes they are currently studying. Here is a sneak peek at a few:
