Students in Mrs. Mulvaney and Mrs. Downey’s Language Arts Class are at it again! This time they created Cause and Effect Popplets about the book Rosa Parks: Freedom Rider. Many of them blog with different teachers, but you can see their work by clicking on the links below. Mrs. Downey’s Students Mrs. Mulvaney’s Students Mrs. Corbett’s Students [...]
This past week, fourth graders at in Mrs. Mulvaney’s, Mrs. Downey’s, and Mrs. Wallace’s reading class have been learning about Rosa Parks while reading the book, Rosa Parks Freedom Rider by Keith Brandt and Joanne Mattern. To augment what they were learning in the book, they also practiced research skills to learn more about her. [...]
There is quite a bit of excitement in the 4th and 5th grade hall at one of my schools. And believe it or not, it’s all about WRITING. Yep! Writing journal entries, writing free writes, writing news reviews, writing assignments. Why? Because students here are using blogs to write! After a few lessons on safety, [...]
Want to be President? Well, you can at least make your own commercial! Try it out here: Presidential Campaign Ad-o-matic You can definitely grab your students attention, or have them make their own as the beginning to a writing prompt. During the process students will need to upload their pictures, choose their political party, and [...]
Fourth Graders in Mrs. Corbett’s class created interactive posters about famous authors! They used a service called Glogster Edu to create these posters! Here are a few examples of their work. You can see them all on the class wiki . It’s amazing how engaged the kids were while working in Glogster! Here is [...]
What do Purple Cows, Nachos, and 3-D Robots have in common? They’re all things YOU can learn how to make, just by watching a simple Digital Story! Yep, so easy even a Third Grader could do it…actually, they did! And they created these digital stories to show YOU just how easy it is! Here’s an [...]
Jacqui Sharp from ICT Teaching and Learning posted this great slideshow of different ways to publish writing. It’s great!! It goes from the easiest ways to the more elaborate…but lots of fun things are included. Take a look! Can you think of any other ways? Publishing Writing Ideas 2 View more presentations from Jacqui Sharp.
Wordle is a really fun, east web tool that turns words into art called “word clouds.” These word clouds emphasize words that are used more often in a piece of text. Wordle makes text clouds from text you enter, from blog RSS feeds, or from delicious tags. There are even options to change font color, [...]
