Author Archives: kahues

Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Gerrard’s 1st graders have been practicing with main idea. Today they used Seesaw to draw pictures that would give clues to the main idea. They also recorded their voice to accompany their drawings and asked their … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mrs. Wilson’s class have noticed that quite a bit of unopened food items are being thrown away at lunch. Students collected data on the iPads by observing what items were thrown away during lunch and tallying them … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mr. Jones’s 1st grade class at Greenwood conducted research on an animal of their choice using books from the library and PebbleGo. Today they published the information they found by writing a book in Book Creator. Using … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The 3rd grade students have been learning about life cycles. In extended day at Glen Lea, Fair Oaks, and Montrose students learned how to make their own movie using pictures from Britannica Image Quest and adding a voice over. They … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Mrs. Baum’s 4th grade science students have been learning about the phases of the moon. We began by looking at a document that showed the phases of the moon for January 2018. Students referred back to this page while they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mrs. Elsea’s 5th grade class have been studying the Northeast Region in Social Studies. Today she asked them to share their ideas as to why the Northeast region is so densely populated. Flipgrid allows students to record … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Digital breakouts are really fun to solve, but they are also super fun to create! Mrs. Bowles’s 4th graders began this project by selecting one planet from our solar system to research. Using a variety of web and print resources, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mrs. Stacia’s 2nd grade class worked on publishing their writing today. Their prompt was “Describe a time when you were brave.” Using the classroom Kindles, students logged into Seesaw and used the Notes option. This option allowed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mr. Cochran’s 4th grade class at Davis have been learning about probability. They have been describing the likelyhood of an event happening using the terms unlikely, likely, certain, impossible, and equally likely. My colleague, Sarah Green, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Back in December, I had the opportunity to attend and present at VSTE (Virginia’s Technology in Education Conference). While at VSTE I attended a session led by Promethean trainers in which they demonstrated the different features of ClassFlow. Meanwhile Mrs. … Continue reading → Continue reading →