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Graphing in a Google Spreadsheet

The students have been working on Graphing skills, so I had them log into their Henrico Google accounts and create a new spreadsheet. As they were opening a new spreadsheet, I passed out some data for them to graph. Here … Continue reading Continue reading

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Repeating and Growing Patterns in Educreations

The students had a lot of fun creating repeating and growing patterns and explaining their thought process using the voice recorder and pen tool in the Educreations app. Prior to the lesson, the classroom teacher made baskets for each team … Continue reading Continue reading

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Humpty Dumpty Concept of Word

The Kindergarten students have been working on concept of word using familiar nursery rhymes. For this activity, the students have been learning Humpty Dumpty. The teacher used cameroid.com to choose the Humpty Dumpty scene. This allowed the students to take … Continue reading Continue reading

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On Target With Decimals

The 5th Grade students have been working on Decimal Place value this week, which provided me the perfect opportunity to combine two things I love…good deals & Target! I went to Target and snapped some photos of the items on … Continue reading Continue reading

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Appy Hour Presentation from Tech Congerence

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Read & Write for Google

Yesterday, I attended the RVA Unconference that was hosted by Henrico County.  I went to one session called Google Apps for K-2, and the facilitator shared with us a resource that I think would be very beneficial.  It’s a Google … Continue reading Continue reading

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Composing & Editing Writing with Google Docs

This year, the elementary students are able to log into their Henrico Google Account and use the Google Applications. For this lesson, I set up the usernames and passwords for Ms. Herod’s 5th grade class at Longan. The students logged … Continue reading Continue reading

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Henrico Hometown Heroes from Karen Hues on Vimeo.
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Henrico 21 Awards Ceremony

What a great year we have had! The Henrico 21 submissions this year were incredible! I am happy to announce that the Henrico Hometown Heroes project from Springfield Park is a Henrico 21 Finalist in the Project category! Way to … Continue reading Continue reading

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SCA Voting Using Blogs and Google Forms

This year the SCA teacher reps at Springfield Park decided to move away from using QUIA and use a Google Form instead. Our only issue with the Google Form was that we could not insert images of the students running, … Continue reading Continue reading

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