Mystery Hangout Strikes Again!

Ms. Zahm's class in 2nd Grade did a Mystery Hangout today and tried to figure out where the other class was located with Yes and No questions.  Both classes were able to use their maps and narrow down the location of the other class! Great use of technology as we used Google Hangouts to connect! Well done! 

Mystery Number

Ms. Carlson's class tried a Mystery Number Hangout.  The mystery number is guessing a number between 1 -100.  You use yes or no questions.   

For example:

•  Is your number greater than 50?   
• Is there a 5 in the ones place?
• Is it a 2 digit number?    

It helps to have a 100 chart so students can cross off numbers as you go.   For older grades, they could use larger numbers, but the hosts should probably set up the perimeters prior to the call.   

Ms. Calrson's class being mysterious!

Ms. Staten takes Pinterest to a new Level!

Gattis Elementary School art teacher Donna Staten has been named to the “20 to Watch” list of educators by the National School Board Association for the 2014-2015 school year, becoming the only art teacher in history to receive the honor.

Staten received the award March 16 at the Consortium for School Networking conference as a result of her work with social media in the classroom, especially Pinterest and Twitter to curate lesson plans and examples of artwork. 

Click Here to read more about the article published on RRISD's main website.

Mystery Hangout

Students in Mrs. Carlson's 2nd Grade class conducted a Mystery Hangout today! Through webcams and microphones they were able to see and talk with another class in a "Mystery" location.  Students created and took turns asking yes/no questions to each other. Through the questions they eliminated possible destination on their maps until they guessed correctly where each other were!

Gattis Celebrates Pi Day

Everyone loves pie!  Mr. Brillhart really loves Pi!  His class celebrated March 14, 2015 with a Pi day Gattis style!  They were even featured on the RRISD Webpage at https://roundrockisd.org/gattis-celebrates-pi-day/

Hutto Teachers visit Gattis

Today we had a Technology Coordinator, a few Principals and an Administrator from HUTTO ISD visit Gattis Elementary.  They wanted to see Technology in Action, and boy did they!  From Kinder students navigating to research websites independently to first graders doing a group activity with their projector and computer in the classroom.  In our Next Gen Classroom they were able to see TAG Students working on a project in Google Apps on their Chromebooks.  Thanks to all of the teachers who were open to our visitors checking you out. They were so very very impressed! 

Highlighted Sites for Students & Teachers

Some great resources for students and teachers to try.