Category Archives: Pages
1st Grade Spring Acrostic
First graders in Ms. Smith’s class at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about poetry in language arts and spring in science, so today they wrote an acrostic poem that spelled out SPRING. They came up with their own words or phrases to go with each letter and typed them on a Pages document. When they […] Continue reading
Kindergarten Wishes
Kindergarten students in Ms. Fennell’s class have been working hard all year to get to the point where they are finally ready to write complete sentences. That’s a pretty amazing accomplishment, considering when they started in September they were just learning to identify their ABCs! They had previously written a sentence on paper about their […] Continue reading
JG and the Boys on Social Media
Let me start off my saying that I absolutely love when I’m able to work with my fellow ITRTs. Yesterday I had the pleasure of working with Julie Goode, Tyler Hart and Ryan Stein. We call our ITRT teacher group…..(pause … Continue reading → Continue reading
Facebook Fun at Adams Elementary
I was very lucky to co teach with Mrs. Noble-Wilkins today at Adams Elementary. Her students have been researching African Americans that made a difference in our country, both past and present. The class put their weeks of research into … Continue reading → Continue reading
3rd Grade Pirate Maps
Third grade students in Ms. Ford’s class at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about the continents, oceans, and hemispheres (SOL3.5). So today we practiced finding and burying pirate treasures on various continents and oceans based on their hemispheres (really, using latitude and longitude lines). I gave them a template with a map and some questions […] Continue reading
4th Grade Mystery Animals
Today 4th graders in Ms. Ficor’s class at Holladay Elementary were working on writing better descriptions. We started out in Today’s Meet where I would write a non descriptive sentence like, “I saw a monster,” and then they would have to add their descriptive ideas to help us “picture” the topic better. We talked about […] Continue reading
2nd Grade has been busy
Ancient China: CLICK HERE for a pdf that has a stem activity for ancient China. Here are some ways to include technology to the lesson. Instead of a given site, have a group of sites using bundlenut.com and students are needing to find and cite their research. Use Pixie to design their flags Use Pages or […] Continue reading
2nd Grade Winter Writing & Editing
Now that we are back from vacation, many classes are writing about the winter. Pages is our Mac word processing program, and I like to make sure that all the students know how to use it. So today I was teaching a 2nd grade class how to write about winter in Pages. The teacher wanted […] Continue reading
Jamestown Brochures in Pages
The 4th graders at Carver Elementary finished up part of their Jamestown unit last week. As part of review, the students used the Template Chooser in Pages and created brochures. We talked about how brochures are a great way to convey information to an audience. We also talked about how they can be used to […] Continue reading
4th Grade Class eBook
Today 4th graders in Ms. Charity’s class at Laburnum Elementary created their own class eBook. You can create one fairly easily with your class as well! The cool thing about eBooks is that they can be read by anyone on almost any platform (computers, iPods, iPads, etc), and all you need is a word processing […] Continue reading
