Author Archives: kahues

The student’s in Mrs. Elsea’s 5th grade class at Jackson Davis have been reading Everest.  They worked hard to create backdrops, props, characters, etc. for their video.  They used the Stop Motion app on the iPads to create these awesome … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mrs. Green’s 3rd grade class are working on patterns this week.  Today we used ABCya Animate to create picture patterns.  We talked about how they could make patterns by resizing the image, flipping the image across the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mr. Jones’s first grade class at Greenwood worked in the new online version of Book Creator today during their small group rotations. The students went to app.bookcreator.com and logged in with their teacher’s Book Creator Library code. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mrs. Bowles’s 4th grade class have been learning about the major cities, rivers, and regions in Virginia. Today the students used Google Maps to create a map of Virginia. Using the polygon tool, students were able to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The 5th grade students in Ms. Edwards’s class have been learning about the layers of the Earth. For this activity, students went to Schoology for their lesson materials. We started by watching a BrainPop video to review the composition of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mr. Taylor’s class collaborated on a Google Map today. Working as a team, they were able to plot over 200 coordinates on the class map in about 20 minutes! There were 10 layers on the map, so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The librarian at Jackson Davis, Anna Lingerfelt, had the idea to do a digital breakout for her 3rd-5th grade students to welcome them back to the library. Blair Hart, librarian at Longan, and I put loved the idea and decided … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mrs. King’s Kindergarten class have been practicing with identifying shapes. Today the students used Play-Doh, a rolling pin, and a cookie cutter to create a shape. After cutting out the shape, they put it on a white … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The students in Mrs. Wilson’s 3rd grade class have been studying graphing in math. Today, we introduced pictographs using this Google Slide Template. Using the Google Drive integration, the teacher was able to easily add this slideshow to her assignment … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s been a great first week back to school! Over the summer, many teachers attended our technology conference, Field Day of the Future, and afterwards I had several requests for this Birthday Board Google Slide activity that they saw in … Continue reading → Continue reading →