Author Archives: Karen

This 21 degree morning was the perfect time to have students create a page in Educreations to describe winter weather. Using a variety of picture books that they have been reading in their Kindergarten classroom, the students took a picture … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The 5th grade students at Trevvett are preparing for their upcoming benchmark tests. Elapsed time is always a tricky concept, so today we did math review stations. At the Promethean Board, students took turns using the interactive clock as a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

These 1st grade students at Trevvett are working on understanding magnitude and how to estimate an amount. To practice with this concept, the students looked around the room for a group of something they could photograph. Then they used educreations … Continue reading → Continue reading →

These Kindergarten students at Greenwood have been learning about Martin Luther King, Jr. Through non-fiction texts and PebbleGo, they researched as a class to gather information about him. They then used Tellagami on the iPads to take a tour of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Many of you have been wondering how to access student log in information for your new students.  The directions below (created by Kelley Taylor at Glen Allen Elementary) will walk you through the steps.  Hope this helps! Continue reading →

In December, several ITRT’s and I traveled to Virginia Beach to attend the 2014 Virginia Society for Technology in Education’s Annual Conference. While there, participants were given the opportunity to sit in on various concurrent sessions, listen to awesome keynote … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This 2nd grade class has been working on rounding and estimation. Their teacher put together some advertisements for Toys R’ Us, Wal-Mart, Kroger, and Target. The students had to take a picture of the item and price in the Educreations … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As you can tell by my numerous posts, I am LOVING Google Tour Builder. The students love it too! Yesterday I was in a 4th grade classroom. They have been learning about why the capitol of Virginia moved from Jamestown … Continue reading → Continue reading →

These 3rd grade students have been studying Greece and Rome. On Monday, the teachers had an entire Greece & Rome day in which students dressed in togas and rotated to the different classrooms for a variety of Ancient Greece & … Continue reading → Continue reading →

These 1st grade students have been working on subtraction problems. The teacher and I decided to use Pixie on the iPads to let students show how they would subtract. With the holidays just a few days away, the students used … Continue reading → Continue reading →