Author Archives: Julie Smith
Animal Research with ZooAtlanta
Today Mrs. Taylor’s 1st grade class wanted to explore their animal unit more in depth. Students were put into small groups and assigned an animal they were to learn and report facts about using the augmented reality app, ZooAtlanta. The … Continue reading → Continue reading
Multiplication Arrays App Smash
Third grade teacher, Mrs. Schaeffer, at Highland Springs Elementary has just started her multiplication unit with her students. She invited me into her classroom today to do a mini project on arrays. Students did an app smash in which they … Continue reading → Continue reading
Math Busters Invade Fair Oaks and Trevvett!
Last Friday I had the pleasure of participating in a ITRT meetup. ITRT meetups are a lot like a food truck meetup. The only difference is less food and more technology. (We don’t have a catchy name for our group, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Number Pattern QR Code Task Cards
Third graders at Chamberlayne Elementary made their own QR Code task cards today all about number patterns. Mrs. Wallace assigned each child a special “rule” and students used Pixie to type a number pattern and created a creative “function machine” to … Continue reading → Continue reading
Math Busters Kindergarten Pumpkin Sequencing Rotation
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Mrs. McKeon’s Halloween Candy Graphs
This past week Mrs. McKeon’s 2nd graders collected data on people’s favorite Halloween candy. Today they used Google Sheets to graph their findings and uploaded their graph to a Padlet wall. They did such a great job! Created with Padlet Continue reading
Mrs. Dawe’s Ocean Floor Thinglinks
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Collaborative Patterns in Google Drawing
Ms. Szakal’s 3rd grade class did an OUTSTANDING job yesterday making repeating patterns in Google Drawing. We divided the class in half, even and odd numbers according to their student numbers. Each even number was assigned an odd number partner. Even … Continue reading → Continue reading
Kindergarten’s 7 Habits
Today Mrs. Zehmer’s kindergarten class at Crestview made collaborative movies all about the 7 Habits. The 7 Habits are Stephen Covey’s approach to being effective in attaining goals. Each child got to choose which habit they wanted to create a … Continue reading → Continue reading
