Student Paper 2nd Edition

Gattis grade 3-5 students who are members of the Writing Club are working on creating Student Newspapers. The second edition is out! They worked hard for months to collaborate on this product. A digital PDF copy can be found in the April eFolder

Enjoy the online version here.

Student Newpaper Club

Gattis students who are members of the Writing Club created a student paper.   They worked hard for months to collaborate on this product. Look for a yellow paper copy coming home to you.

A digital PDF copy can be found in the January eFolder. Enjoy the online version here.

Second Grade Builds Timelines

Students in Ms. Carlson's 2nd Grade class, did a Timeline Project. They researched specific famous people in History in PebbleGo, wrote notes in their journals, and saved images from the internet into their folders on the server.  After they collected all the information and images they needed, they went to the ReadWriteThink Timeline Page and created timelines on their person.  Look at some examples here:

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.

Poetry Word Clouds with a twist.

In 4th Grade this 9 weeks students are studying Poetry in Literacy. In Miss Jeffereson’s class students were creative in the way they published their poetry by using the Web 2.0 word cloud site http://www.tagxedo.com/ . All of their work is proudly displayed outside of their classroom. Here is just a few samples of Tagxedo –ed Poems.

3rd Grade Writing

Third Grade Students in Ms. Kasper's class have been working on Personal Narratives. To complete their writing they published pieces in the computer lab. Students were able to put their own personal "flair" on their writing by changing the font size, and style. They were able to navigate to their individual folders on the server to save their work. Here is just a sample of writing.

Create a Story Online

Second Grade Students enjoyed creating stories online through http://www.artofstorytelling.org/kiosk/ site. This coorelated with their writing unit they are working on. It was fun to select all the different parts of the story!

3rd Grade Letters

Mrs. Dawson's third grade class published their letters. Their focus was writing a friendly letter in Microsoft Word. Students had to change the font style, size and color then add a picture. They also had to save it into their own folders.

Earth Day By Grade 3

Students in Ms. Tilger's class created some fantastic Earth Day Posters to go along with their writing unit. They used Microsoft Word and really got into the editing and manipulating of clipart.

Have you been persuaded? Mrs. Hubele’s third graders typed up letters to persuade one way or another on their topic. The students used and learned about Microsoft Word features and used correct letter format. This was a great lesson covering the TEKS 3.21 Persuasive text. The classs had several mini lessons beforehand over how and where to save their documents, how to change fonts, indenting, capitalizing letters, etc. If you were Mrs. Hubele, would you give in?