Author Archives: ssgreen

Last Friday we spent the day working with 4th grade at Chamberlayne Elementary. The teachers wanted us to focus on vocabulary, specifically affixes (prefixes, root words and suffixes). We find that affixes is a weak skill across the board in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The newest episode of Math on the Spot Spliting Fractions has been released!  It covers adding fractions with common denominators and comparing fractions while BOWLING!   The Spot Check includes a Scratch bowling game and a recording sheet in Google … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Shannon Hyman, Kaechele Elementary’s librarian, invited #TechTakeout to her AMAZING MakerFest Day to run ten different stations. Each one of the stations highlighted a tool that the students would have access to in the Kaechele Makerspace located in the library. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last Friday #TechTakeout had the pleasure of going out to Ratcliffe Elementary. We had a blast doing computation with fractions! We first started off doing a Kahoot to get everyone warmed up. It was 5 easy fraction questions, just enough … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This week, several classes worked on their critical thinking and problem solving skills while coding.  First, Second, and Third grade students used code.org  to explore coding basics while playing some fun games like Minecraft and Frozen.  I also worked with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Zing! is a free resource full of fiction and nonfiction leveled texts. Teachers can create a free teacher account and use this resource projected for the entire class to see, or in small groups. (It would be great to see … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today the #TechTakeout crew headed over to Montrose Elementary to work on language arts! Mrs. Hues, the ITRT at Montrose, met with the Title I Reading Teacher, Kathy Rohr, to find the grade level and topic with the greatest need. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Second grade students became teachers today using a fun tool called Pixiclip. (Thanks to my wonderful ITRT teammates who introduced me to it!) The students chose an equality or inequality picture from a folder in Server Shortcuts. Then they used … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Students in Mrs. Claravall’s first grade class used the iPads to take pictures of shapes around the school to review what they have learned about shapes.  Then they used the pictures to create patterns in Educreations.  Here is one of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This year we have the full version of the Book Creator app on the K/1 iPads!  Thank you Karen Hues for making this tutorial.  Please let me know if you have any questions! Book Creator Tutorial from Karen Hues on … Continue reading → Continue reading →