Author Archives: Alfonso

Students in Mrs. Nowicki’s class have been working on coding using scratch. They are self taught and have used skills such as innovation, creativity, and reflection. They took ideas the class had to offer and decided to use some and save some for another project. Below are samples. Voice Activated Strength Game Snatch the color […] Continue reading →

2nd grade is studying the Mississippi River, James River, Rio Grande River, Appalachian mountains, Great Lakes, and Rocky Mountains. So we went there to look and give some information….using green screen technology. Wiley from Alfonso Favale on Vimeo. Continue reading →

A small group of 5th graders were asked to put together a skit about a sample of what bullying looks like. A movie trailer was created to get their attention and their skit served as the movie. Enjoy.

SPES Bullying from Alfonso Favale on Vimeo.
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First grade style…Happy Halloween! Herbert from Alfonso Favale on Vimeo. Continue reading →

2nd grade is learning about adding details to their writing. I let them decorate some pumpkins in pixie but before they could they had to write on the page exactly what their pumpkins would look like. They just needed to add words that would describe their pumpkins such as red hat, glowing eyes,etc. They then […] Continue reading →

Kg are studying patterns. Question…where do we find patterns and are all patterns the look the same. Answer…quilts….they have patterns and all look different. Task..design an original quilt and show an abab, aabbaabb, abc, or another pattern. Here are some samples. Q is for Quilt 1 from Alfonso Favale on Vimeo. Continue reading →

2nd grade is studying Erosion and Weathering. What better place to go than…..outside! They worked together in pairs and each pair had an iPad to go outside and take pictures of their school grounds for signs of weathering and erosion. These pictures were placed in dropbox and eventually found their way to a slide show […] Continue reading →

3rd grade was studying hemispheres and vocabulary such as longitude and latitude as well as grid map and cardinal directions. Since it was October, we decided to decorate pumpkins….using the lines on the pumpkins to show longitude. We added latitude lines to create a grid map. We labeled our directions and then made our pumpkins […] Continue reading →

Kg were studying shapes. Instead of asking what shapes do we have around us, I asked why are certain shapes used around us. Bridges seemed like a good place to start. We looked at numerous pictures of famous bridges and observed what shapes were used. Conclusion…rectangles and triangles were used most of the time. I […] Continue reading →

Mrs. York’s third grade class were looking at how songs have good writing. They looked up the lyrics to the Beatles song Yesterday. Each student took a part of the song and created a picture to go with that part. We used iMovie to put the pictures with the song. They will create their own […] Continue reading →