Category Archives: Reading
Digital Learning Day is Coming Up!!
February 23rd is Digital Learning Day! That’s this THURSDAY!!!! Digital Learning Day is a time to try a new digital tool with your class or use an old digital tool in a new way. Check out this short video about DLD!! The Elementary ITRT’s worked together to create various Digital Breakouts. Use the following website …
Using Stop Motion to Animate Plot!
Today in Mrs. Pope’s class at Glen Allen Elementary School we used the app Stop Motion Studio to animate the plot of a story. We started the lesson by showing the kids how to use the app and stressed the importance of taking a lot of pictures when making your video. The students paired up …
Zing! Professional Development
Here is the presentation for the Zing! PD we will be doing after school.
#TechTakeout Rocks Out Reading at Glen Lea
Wow! Today marks the fifth day of 5 and 5, the Tech Takeout crew went to 5 different schools in 5 days to work in different grade levels on different math and language arts skills. As a group we discussed the areas of need in each of the schools we visited. The teachers provided us …
Book Celebration Instagram Post!
At Kaechele today we made Instagram posts for book characters for our book celebration! Check them out below! Book Celebration Instagrams! by Slidely Slideshow Continue reading
3rd Grade Collaborative Venn Diagrams in Google Drawing
Mrs. Reed’s third grade class read the story Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe. In the story Mufaro has two beautiful daughters who are quite different from one another. I thought that it would be a great activity to compare and contrast the two daughters using a Venn Diagram. To make the …
Famous Americans in Tellagami
In Mrs. Dobranski’s third grade class at Kaechele we used the iPads to create something awesome! They were just wrapping up their unit on famous Americans, so Mrs. Dobranski and I decided to run with that topic. Before I went into the classroom the students had already broken off into pairs, chosen the famous American that …
Great Expectations Selfies!
At the request of an awesome teacher, Mrs. Dickey, I took the opportunity to teach two 9th Grade English classes at Deep Run High School. Yes, HIGH School. I had to put aside some of my “Elementary Teachiness.” I definitely didn’t put away the fun in the classroom, but the “Clap once if you can […] Continue reading
