Author Archives: Matt Caratachea
Preschool Fire Safety Video
I had the opportunity to work with the AMAZING preschool students and teachers at Kaechele Elementary School on a fire safety project. Ms. Katie’s class has been learning about fire safety for 3 weeks. The unit is taught in November because December has more house fires than any other month due to increase in heat …
STEM Night at Mehfoud Elementary School
Tuesday, November 11th was Mehfoud’s second annual STEM Night. It was such a blast! Students bring their relatives and friends to Mehfoud during the evening to participate in some hands-on learning. It was amazing to see the students showing their parents how they could solve different problems at the various stations throughout the school. In …
Accessing Student Google Accounts From Home
Julie Smith made easy to follow directions for students to use from home when accessing their Google accounts. Thank you so much for sharing Julie! I linked the picture to the file so all you have to do is click the picture below to download a PDF version of the directions. Click the picture …
Third Grade Turkey ChatterPix
Mrs. Bagley’s third graders at Kaechele have been learning about author’s purpose. As a class they read, “Turkey Trouble” by Wendi Silvano and were presented with a task relating to the story. The students were to design and create a turkey that did not want to be eaten on Thanksgiving. They needed to help their …
Making Change Video Story Problems
Today in Mrs. West’s third grade class at Short Pump Elementary School we made video story problems! They are currently learning about making change, so we used a few different tools to create our making change video story problems. First, the students planned their problem on paper by figuring out what they were going to …
Embedding A Picture Slideshow To Your Blog
I’ve been getting this question quite a bit, and sometimes videos help more than printed directions. In this video I’ll show you how to: – Upload pictures from your phone to your computer using the Google Drive app – How to get those pictures from Google Drive to Picasa – How to create and edit …
Kaechele Elementary Celebrates Veteran’s Day
Students and staff honored our special veteran guests at the annual Kaechele Elementary School Veteran’s Day Assembly. During the assembly everyone sang patriotic songs and heard an inspiring message about overcoming obstacles from our guest speaker Sgt. Matthew Pennington. To introduce Sgt. Pennington I enlisted the help of a third grade student to make an introduction …
Synonyms With Educreations
Mrs. Hartman’s second grade class used the Educreations app to share their knowledge of synonyms. First the students discussed what synonyms were and gave examples. They were then given a baggie with different words inside. With a partner, the students sorted the words and matched the synonyms. Once the students agreed with their partner that they …
Post Mail Migration Help/FAQ!
All of my schools are officially finished with The Great Mail Migration of 2014! I still can’t believe how smoothly it went! For the most part everything looks exactly the same, except for the fact that we now have 50 GB of space as opposed to less than 100 MB. That means that we won’t …
Post Mail Migration Help/FAQ!
All of my schools are officially finished with The Great Mail Migration of 2014! I still can’t believe how smoothly it went! For the most part everything looks exactly the same, except for the fact that we now have 50 GB of space as opposed to less than 100 MB. That means that we won’t …
