Category Archives: Movie Maker

Tech Takeout Pumps Up Language Arts at Chamberlayne

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 grades 3-5 so we were excited to come up with some “techie” activities that would …

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#TechTakeout is the Word at Montrose Elementary!

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. The winners of the #TechTakeout party were 3rd grade! We came in to focus on …

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#TechTakeout Comes to Lakeside

This week is our 5 Schools, 5 Days with Tech Takeout. The Tech Takeout crew is going to a different school every day and working on specific skills with students. Today was our first day and we kicked off 5 Schools, 5 Days at Lakeside Elementary School. We were so excited to work with the …

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Posted in 4th Grade, Dell Webcam, Educreations, Geoboard, Geometry, ipad, Lakeside, MaKeyMaKey, Math, Movie Maker, scratch, Tech Takeout | Comments Off on #TechTakeout Comes to Lakeside

Novel Studies

Mrs. Bagley’s third grade class at Kaechele Elementary Schools students had just completed independent novel studies.  Mrs. Bagley gave the students an opportunity to work on this project in small groups or independently.  The students were able to select books that were appropriate for their level and were asked to come up with any project that …

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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 …

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