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Last Friday #TechTakeout had the pleasure of going out to Ratcliffe Elementary. We had a blast doing computation with fractions! We first started off doing a Kahoot to get everyone warmed up. It was 5 easy fraction questions, just enough … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I started off the morning co-teaching with librarian, Theresa Harris. We worked with 1st grade on nouns. Using PicCollage and Tellagami, students created these adorable videos. We were both impressed with how well they worked in partners! Way to go, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Jessica Stranix, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing teacher at Glen Allen Elementary, had her students work on a digital project for Derrick Coleman’s (Seattle Seahawk’s deaf offensive football player) Holiday Hearing Christmas Party Contest. Students were challenged to create … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kindergarteners in Mrs. Apel’s class at Glen Allen Elementary just attended the wedding of letters Q and U. To celebrate their numptuals, students did a mini app smash project using the two iPad apps PicCollage and Tellagami. Check out their … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Mayer, from Chamberlayne Elementary signed up to do a lesson focused on measurement using the iPads. I really had to think long and hard about which app we should use to make this lesson meaningful. Suddenly, it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today Mrs. Abernathy, the librarian at Chamberlayne Elementary, and I teamed up to work with 2nd graders. We were able to combine multiple SOL topics into ONE 30 minute lesson! First, students broke up into groups of 4 and got … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Second graders in Mrs. Williams’ class at Mehfoud Elementary have been learning about synonyms and antonyms. Two weeks ago we did a fun whole group lesson to introduce the topic and yesterday we decided to step it up a level and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today second graders in Mrs. Fugate’s class at Mehfoud Elementary reviewed the three Native American tribes: Powhatan, Lakota and Pueblo. We used PowerPoint to make a movie about the tribes’ location, occupations, modes of transportation and their homes. Students navigated … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today second graders in Mrs. Fugate’s class at Mehfoud Elementary reviewed the three Native American tribes: Powhatan, Lakota and Pueblo. We used PowerPoint to make a movie about the tribes’ location, occupations, modes of transportation and their homes. Students navigated … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last Friday the #TechTakeout crew headed over to Montrose Elementary to work on language arts! Mrs. Hues, the ITRT at Montrose, met with the Title I Reading Teacher, Kathy Rohr, to find the grade level and topic with the greatest need. … Continue reading → Continue reading →