Today we will begin research for your biography project. Use the following websites to gather information about your person.
Heights Library for Britannica and PebbleGo Resources
Today we will begin research for your biography project. Use the following websites to gather information about your person.
Heights Library for Britannica and PebbleGo Resources
We will put your new keyboarding skills to work today by keying in one of your writing prompts. First, we will learn how to put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word. We will learn how to Center a title, use the First Line Indent, and Line Spacing to double space. Next week we will learn how to use Spelling and Grammar check and format your fonts. Finally we will learn to add a picture to your document.
Today you will use KidPix to draw a picture of how molecules act in three states of matter.
Try these websites at home:
We will explore how to navigate the new PARCC assessment that you will be taking this year. Use the link below to go to the sample tests. Explore the navigation features and then use the scavenger hunt sheet to answer the questions.
We will use the iPads and the app DoInk to create an animation of how molecules behave in three states of matter.
We will put your new keyboarding skills to work today by keying in one of your writing prompts. First, we will learn how to put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word. We will learn how to Center a title, use the First Line Indent, and Line Spacing to double space. Next week we will learn how to use Spelling and Grammar check and format your fonts. Finally we will learn to add a picture to your document.
After studying poetry and figures of speech, specifically alliteration, create an alliteration sentence about an animal you might find in the zoo. Visit the websites below to find a public domain pictures of your animal. Download the picture to the camera role. Next, use the app Yakit Kids to import your picture and then voice over your sentence. All the short movies will be combined into a class movie, Alliteration at the Zoo.
Wikimedia Commons
Pics4Learning
USA.gov
You have completed your research on a famous person from Massachusetts. Today we will begin to organize the research into a Powerpoint presentation. You learn how to add bulleted lists, pictures, animations, and slide transitions.
Today you will use Timeliner software to create a timeline of the lofe of Deborah Sampson. Use the pictures in the grade 3 lessons folder to embellish your timeline.
Today we will begin research for your biography project. Use the following websites to gather information about your person.
Today you and your companion class partner will work on creating a comic book about the water cycle. Use the storyboard to plan out your comic book, then open Strip Designer on the ipads to create the comic. Click below to see my sample book.
Today you will key into Word your My Dream For The World paragraph. We will learn how to download a picture from the Microsoft Office website to include in your paragraph and place the picture behind the text.
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
Your aliens are complete and today we will type up your descriptions and share them with our companion class in South Carolina via our Alien Exchange collaborative website.
We will continue to publishyour writing prompts in Microsoft Word. Spellcheck, change the font and size of your text, and add a picture to your document.
Grab your measuring devices, an iPad and the QR code sheet! Today you will work together in six groups to find six objects in our school. When you find each object, estimate and then measure each object. The QR codes will reveal the object and give you directions as to which measurement you will make.
Today we will use the iPads to publish your cinquains about snow. We will create animated snowflakes in Do Ink, type the poem in Drawing Pad, then put them together in Green Screen. Finally, we will voice over the animation in iMovie.
Today in Art we will begin our Aliens at Heights project. First we will use our iPads to take a picture of a location at Heights. Next we will create an animated alien in the app Do Ink and add our photo of a place at school. We will put all the aliens invading our school together in a movie which will be shown at the annual Art Show!
Explore these websites to learn about life in colonial America.
http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
http://www.history.org/kids/
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/smartfun/colonial/intro/intro.html
Today you will begin to create a Glog on your chosen weather phenomenon. Include three pictures, a short paragraph and several bullets to explain the meteorological phenomenon.
Use the iPads and the following websites to help you collect information for your weather topic.
Weather Whiz Kids
Weather Web for Kids
Treehouse Weather Kids
Discovery Kids Weather
The Weather Channel Kids
You may also use the Britannica Online and Brainpop sites for further information.
If time allows start to gather pictures from Wikimedia Commons for your weather glog.
We will put your new keyboarding skills to work today by keying in one of your writing prompts. First, we will learn how to put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word. We will learn how to Center a title, use the First Line Indent, and Line Spacing to double space. Next week we will learn how to use Spelling and Grammar check and format your fonts. Finally we will learn to add a picture to your document.
We have done a couple of lessons on Microsoft Word in the lab, so let’s finish your writing on the new laptops. We will work in your classroom to learn how to use the laptops and complete our writings.
We will put your new keyboarding skills to work today by keying in one of your writing prompts. First, we will learn how to put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word. We will learn how to Center a title, use the First Line Indent, and Line Spacing to double space. Next week we will learn how to use Spelling and Grammar check and format your fonts. Finally we will learn to add a picture to your document.
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Today we will Skype with the class that is hosting our Flat Stanley. We have their Flat Stanley below and have created a book of his adventures. In turn they have created a movie of our Flat Stanley’s adventures in Maryland. See our collaboration wiki here.
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
Today you will creates a word cloud in the shape of Massachusetts in Powerpoint. Use the map as a slide background in Powerpoint and text boxes to fill in the shape.
Today you will begin to create a Glog on your chosen weather phenomenon. Include three pictures, a short paragraph and several bullets to explain the meteorological phenomenon.
Use the following websites to help you collect information for your weather topic.
Weather Whiz Kids
Weather Web for Kids
Treehouse Weather Kids
Discovery Kids Weather
The Weather Channel Kids
You may also use the Britannica Online and Brainpop sites for further information.
If time allows start to gather pictures from Wikimedia Commons for your weather glog.
You’ve done your research and now you are ready to put it all together in a PowerPoint slide show. You will learn how to add pictures, custom animations and transitions to create a show to present to your class.
Today you will begin to gather pictures and assemble your Planet and Solar System Glog, using GlogsterEDU.
You have completed your research on a famous person from Massachusetts. Today we will begin to organize the research into a Powerpoint presentation. You learn how to add bulleted lists, pictures, animations, and slide transitions.
Today we will begin research for your biography project. Use the following websites to gather information about your person.
Britannica Online
Famous Massachusetts People
Massachusetts:Famous Bay Staters
Famous People From Massachusetts
Famous People of Massachusetts
Today you will type your paragraph about the life of Deborah Sampson in Microsoft Word.
After you finish your Paul Revere acrostic, visit the websites below to learn about life during colonial times and then. Massachusetts today.
http://www.history.org/kids/
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/ciskid/kididx.htm
You’ve done your research and now you are ready to put it all together in a PowerPoint slide show. You will learn how to search for and download pictures from the NASA website, add custom animations, and transitions to create a show to present to your class.
Today we will meet our Alien Exchange partners from Bear Creek Elementary in Surrey, British Columbia during a Skype session. Each group will get a chance to comment on the drawings and we will ask several questions of our partners. See the Alien Exchange wiki here.
Today we will work on the Meet Heights movie for our Alien Exchange partners in British Columbia. You can view it at the Alien Exchange website when it is complete.
Today we will begin to create a Powerpoint presentation based on the biography you read of a famous person from Massachusetts. You learn how to add bulleted lists, pictures, animations, and slide transitions.
Today you will type in your Alien descriptions into Word so we can post them on our Alien Exchange website. Now the fun begins as our Hawaiian friends try to redraw our Aliens from our descriptions and vice versa!
Today we will review setting up a heading in Microsoft Word, centering, first line indent, and line spacing. Key in your writing prompt and next week we will learn how to use the spellcheck, format fonts, and add a pictures.
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
Today you will key into Word your My Dream For The World paragraph. We will learn how to download a picture from the Microsoft Office website to include in your paragraph and place the picture behind the text.
Today you will type in your winter cinquain into Word. Then create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake to add to your poem.
Today you will key your snow poem into Microsoft Word. Put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word, center a title, use the spelling and grammar check, and edit the font. You will create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake and insert it into your poem, as a picture behind the text.
Today you will publish a second writing piece in MicroSoft Word. Key in your family traditions paragraph, spell checking and formatting the document. Add a picture and border to your work.
To complement your keyboarding lessons in the classroom, today we will learn how to use the software Type to Learn. We will be using keyboard covers to cover our hands. Your goal today is to complete Lesson 1 in the software. Use the websites on the Keyboarding section of the Technology Blog to practice your keyboarding at home.
We will put your new keyboarding skills to work today by keying in one of your writing prompts. First, we will learn how to put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word. We will learn how to Center a title, use the First Line Indent, and Line Spacing to double space. Next week we will learn how to use Spelling and Grammar check and format your fonts. Finally we will learn to add a picture to your document.
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
You have been learning about all about weather in science. Today we will be Skyping with Cloud Scientist, Eric Stutz, from the Hinds Laboratory at the University of Chicago. He has been doing research in the area of cloud microphysics using infrared spectroscopy. He has been shooting lasers through clouds, either in the atmosphere or created artificially in a lab, and analyzing how the light interacts with the cloud droplets. Today he will talk with you about his research and show you his cool lab!
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
We will continue to edit our writing pieces over the next two weeks to get ready for the Author’s Breakfast.
You’ve done your research and now you are ready to put it all together in a PowerPoint slide show. You will learn how to search for and download pictures from the NASA website, add custom animations, and transitions to create a show to present to your class.
Today you will begin to collect pictures for your Planet and Solar System Glogs. Next we will assemble the Glog in the lab, using GlogsterEDU.
Gather pictures from the following NASA websites:
Wikimedia Commons
NASA Images
NASA Images Exchange
Great Images In NASA (GRIN)
NASA Multimedia
Today you will use the websites Astronomy for Kids, Zoom Astronomy, and Star Child to begin collecting information about your planet. You may also watch the Brainpop movie clip for your planet. Click on the pictures below to go to the websites.
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Today we will begin to create a Powerpoint presentation based on the biography you read of a famous person from Massachusetts. You learn how to add bulleted lists, pictures, animations, and slide transitions.
Today we will begin research for your biography project. Use the following websites to gather information about your person.
World Book Online
Famous Massachusetts People
Massachusetts:Famous Bay Staters
Famous People From Massachusetts
Famous People of Massachusetts
Today you will key into Word your Special Person writing prompt. Place a heading in the header, center a title, and indent the first line of your paragraph. Double space your work and run a spell check. Change the font and size and add a picture to your document.
Today you will key into Word your My Dream For The World paragraph. We will learn how to download a picture from the Microsoft Office website to include in your paragraph and place the picture behind the text.
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
Today you will key into Word your Special Person writing prompt. Place a heading in the header, center a title, and indent the first line of your paragraph. Double space your work and run a spell check. Change the font and size and add a picture to your document.
Today you will type in your winter cinquain into Word. Then create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake to add to your poem.
Today you will key your snow poem into Microsoft Word. Put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word, center a title, use the spelling and grammar check, and edit the font. You will create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake and insert it into your poem, as a picture behind the text.
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
Today you will use Microsoft Word to key in your Ruby Bridges writing prompt.
Today we will work in your classroom to learn how to handle, setup, and use laptops.
Today you will put your newly acquired keyboarding skills to work. We will learn how to use Microsoft Word to key in your Best Birthday writing prompt. You will learn how to place a heading on your page, center a title, indent a paragraph, edit the font, spell and grammar check as well as insert a picture.
You have reviewed the Daggett Family website, now use Kidspiration to compare and contrast the Daggetts family’s daily life to your daily life. The template is in the group folder.
Go back in time and investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts, a family from colonial Connecticut. During your travels, look for clues from Samuel Daggett’s actual account book, newspapers and illustrations from the 1700s to “uncover” the answers to all 7 questions about the Daggetts’ world. Click the picture below to go to the website.
Today you will put your newly acquired keyboarding skills to work! I will introduce Microsoft Word so that you can publish your paragraphs. You will learn how to use the Header, Alignment and Spacing, First Line Indent, Spelling and Grammar check, and how to format the font. Next week we will learn how to download and add a picture from the Microsoft website and print our finished work.
Today you will put your newly acquired keyboarding skills to work! I will introduce Microsoft Word 2011 so that you can publish your paragraphs. You will learn how to use the Header, Alignment and Spacing, First Line Indent, Spelling and Grammar check, and how to format the font. Next week we will learn how to download and add a picture from the Microsoft website, add a border, and print our finished work.
To complement your keyboarding lessons in the classroom, today we will learn how to use the software Type to Learn. We will be using keyboard covers to cover our hands. Your goal today is to complete Lesson 1 in the software. Use the websites on the Keyboarding section of the Technology Blog to practice your keyboarding at home.
The Gallery for the Monster Project is complete! Today you and your partner will examine the dfferences between the original pictures and the redraws. Use the Reflection document to record what you could have done better to help your companion group be more successful in creating your original drawing. We will be Skyping with Ms. Martin’s class in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia next week to discuss our reflections on the project.
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Today you will put your newly acquired keyboarding skills to work. We will learn how to use Microsoft Word to key in your Best Birthday writing prompt. You will learn how to place a heading on your page, center a title, indent a paragraph, edit the font, spell and grammar check as well as insert a picture.
Last week the class had a very successful Skype session with meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz. Today you will learn how to set up a friendly letter in Word where you will thank him for answering your questions and include two things that you learned during the Skype session.
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
Today you will use the websites Astronomy for Kids, Zoom Astronomy, and Star Child to begin collecting information about your planet. You may also watch the Brainpop movie clip for your planet. Click on the pictures below to go to the websites.
You have been watching your frogs in the classroom grow and change. Today we will use KidPix to draw the life cycle of a frog.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs.
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
Today we will begin to create a Powerpoint presentation based on the biography you read of famous people from Massachusetts. You learn how to add bulleted lists, pictures, animations, and slide transitions.
This week you will begin to create a giant postcard based upon the planet that you have been researching. We will use two slides in Powerpoint for your postcard. You will find two pictures for Slide 1, the outside of the card. For Slide 2, the reverse side of the card, you will insert an image for a postage stamp from the planet and write a friendly letter incorporating some of the facts that you researched. We will print the slides and gluestick them to card stock creating an 8.5″x11″ postcard.
Today you will use the websites Astronomy for Kids, Zoom Astronomy, and Star Child to begin collecting information about your planet. You may also watch the Brainpop movie clip for your planet. Click on the pictures below to go to the websites.
Today you will type in your animal poems which are chock full of similes, using Word. We will learn how to change the orientation of your page, and place a border and picture on the document.
Today you will work on typing in your writing prompts into Word. After you do a spell check, change your font and add a picture.
Today you will use KidPix to draw a picture of how molecules act in three states of matter.
Try these websites at home:
Today you will key your snow poem into Microsoft Word. Put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word, center a title, use the spelling and grammar check, and edit the font. You will create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake and insert it into your poem, as a picture behind the text.
Let’s make a word come alive! Choose a word and animate its meaning in Animation-ish. Click the word below to see its meaning.
Today you will key into Word your My Dream For The World paragraph. We will learn how to download a picture from the Microsoft Office website to include in your paragraph.
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
We will continue to learn how to use Word by typing a friendly letter to our pen pals. We will review how to change fonts, set tabs, and spellcheck. We will learn how to add a picture and a border to our document.
We will put your new keyboarding skills to work today by keying in your Snow Poem. Put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word, center a title, use the spelling and grammar check, and edit the font. You will create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake and insert it into your poem, as a picture behind the text.
Today you will put your newly acquired keyboarding skills to work! I will introduce Microsoft Word so that you can publish your writing prompt about a special person in your life. You will learn how to use the Header, Alignment and Spacing, First Line Indent, Spelling and Grammar check, and how to format the font. Next week we will learn how to download and add a picture from the Microsoft website and print our finished work.
To complement your keyboarding lessons in the classroom, today we will learn how to use the software Type to Learn. We will be using keyboard covers to cover our hands. Your goal today is to complete Lesson 1 in the software. Use the websites on the Keyboarding section of the Technology Blog to practice your keyboarding at home.
Today we will connect with the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to learn about gravity and how astronauts adapt to their new home, the Space Station. We’ll discover the everyday challenges of how astronauts live in orbit live from a mock-up of space station living quarters and take a look at the food that NASA has prepared for the astronauts.
Today you will create a web in Kidspiration detailing the food chain of your chosen animal. If you are done early you may visit the websites below the picture.
What Living Things Need and The Food Chain
You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Want to learn more about our great state? Visit the websites below.
You will spend several weeks learning how to keyboard using the AlphaSmarts in your classroom. Try the websites listed under the Keyboarding page to help practice your keyboarding skills at home.
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
You’ve done your research and now you are ready to put it all together in a PowerPoint slide show. You will learn how to search for and download pictures from the NASA website, add custom animations, and transitions to create a show to present to your class.
Today you will finish keying in your About the Author paragraphs for the Author’s Breakfast in Microsoft Word. You will learn how to take a picture of yourself in Photobooth and insert it into your author blurb.
Today you will use the websites Astronomy for Kids, Zoom Astronomy, and Star Child to begin collecting information about your planet. Next week you will continue your research on your planet. You may also watch the Brainpop movie clip for your planet. Click on the pictures below to go to the websites.
Today you will type into Microsoft Word the information that you will use on the panels of your Revolutionary War puppet. Use the template in the group folder to type in your information. Open a new template for each of the areas of research. You will center the title for each panel and create a bulleted list for the information.
Today we will take your writing piece and review how to use the editing and formatting features in Microsoft Word to prepare it for publication.We will also learn how to download a picture from the Microsoft Office website and insert it into your document.
Today you will create a water conservation acrostic in Microsoft Word. Choose Word Art for the word water and create text boxes with an attractive front for your messages about water conservation. Download a picture from the Microsoft Office Clipart website and insert it behind your text. Finally choose a border for your page.
Our gallery is up and we have reflected upon our work. It is now time to meet our partners from the Alien Exchange Project through Skype.
You have learned all about how we get our water in Sharon and ways to conserve water. Today we will create a public service announcement or PSA in Animation-ish on ways to conserve water. After they are completed, we will compile them into one movie and put it on the Internet for the town to see. Click on the picture below to see a sample PSA.
Today we will visit again with our companion class from New Zealand. Since it is also Read Across America Day, we will share with them how we celebrate this day. We will explain our costumes to them and then we will read to them a Dr. Seuss story. Last session they answered our questions, so this session we will answer theirs.
Today we will visit the Alien Gallery to view our groups drawings and redraws. Examine your group’s redraws carefully. How could you have written your description better so that your companion class would have drawn your alien more successfully? Use this template to record your reflections. We will share your reflections on the Alien Exchange website and with our partners in a Skype call next week.
Let’s make a word come alive! Choose a word and animate its meaning in Animation-ish. Click the word below to see its meaning.
We will put your new keyboarding skills to work today by keying in your Snow Poem. Put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word, center a title, use the spelling and grammar check, and edit the font. You will create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake and insert it into your poem, as a picture behind the text.
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Want to learn more about our great state? Visit the websites below.
Today you will use KidPix to draw a picture of how molecules act in the three states of matter.
Try these websites at home: