Get Kahoot Synonyms & Antonymns

4th Grade students in Ms. Garcia's Class using Kahoot at https://getkahoot.com/ to learn about synonyms and antonyms. Great way to engage the students!

StuCo Elections Go Digital

This year for Student Council Elections, Candidate speeches were video recorded, places in a slide show and viewed in grade 3-5 classes.  Students then voted via Google forms for the offices. It was all done on our local servers, so no videos were on the internet, and Candidates had an opportunity to refilm their speeches if needed.  Teachers were able to share the Google Form securely within their Google Classrooms.

Isaac Newton in Minecraft

Students in Grade 4 studied Scientist and presented their facts.  Check out how William presented his scientist!

Scientist Student Video

Fourth Grade students in Mrs. Pearson's class created projects on Scientists based on research. Check out Aryssa's awesome video she created.

Scientist Research in Grade 4

4th grade was researching scientists and identifying their discoveries they made and providing descriptions along with illustrations of their inventions and how these inventions affect modern life.  They used online research resources shared by the library, and created multimedia presentations as a group.  Check out some of their projects.

Kinder and 4th Grade Collaborate

It's the beginning of the school year, and there are lots of things to learn already.  Ms. Jefferson and Mrs. Sanford's classes decide to collaborate for the Kindergarten students learning how to log into computers at school and navigate the website.  Great idea!  Here are some photos of the classes in action.

4th Graders BYOD

Ms. Jefferson's 4th Grade class was utilizing their own BYOD (bring your own devices) today as they explored a new reading program we are piloting http://www.myon.com/. Students were able to bring their tablets, phones, etc to reading class and read books online. The students all loved it and they were engaged! 

Happy Digital Learning Day!

Happy Digital Learning Day!  Many classes here at Gattis took on the challenge of doing a lesson or activity digitally.  Here are just some examples of what was happening around the school!  Ms. Carlson’s 2^nd Grade class did digital Poetry at ReadWriteThink Shape Poem Generator, here are a few images of poems from her class. 

Many 4^th Grade classes worked on Think Through Math in their classrooms on netbooks.  Mrs. Dawson’s 3^rd Grade class used Animal Research to build PowerPoint presentations.  Mrs. Tilger’s 3^rd Grade class used this interactive clock on their Promethean Board in their classroom (see the image below).  

Smore to Present

In Ms. Jeffereson's 4th Grade class students created biographies.  They had several choices on how to present their final products.  They were introduced to the online design flyer tool called "smore"  Several students created smores on their person. Click on the links below to see their products.

• Walt Disney
• Magic Johnson
• Lionel Messi
• Abby Wambach
• Cleopatra
• Galileo Galilei

Skype with a Soldier

Several of our Gattis classes wrote letters of encouragement to Soldiers deployed in the Middle East.  This was great writing exercise and a way for them to give back to those who serve.  On Veterans Day, one of the Soldiers they wrote to surprised them by flying in and speaking to the whole school and then individual classes.  Fourth students were so excited they continued to write other soldiers and had a chance to then Skype with one as seen here in the image below. Although technology wasn't used in the writing itself, it was key in the communication with the soldiers and getting information that the classes needed for this worthwhile project.