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.

Fuel Up Video on Broadcast

As part of the Fuel Up to Play 60 Program that Gattis PE classes are involved in this year, Ms. Rosberg and Ms. Hintz put together a movie of students self created FuelUp song. This video has been played on the morning broadcast as a way to motivate and inform other students. Students also created posters to hang around the school and are tracking their progress online. Way to be healthy Gators!

5th Grade Presents with Prezi

Mrs. Boehler's 5th Grade class has made Prezi Presentations on various topics that they then present in class. Check out a few examples below:

What is Matter:

What is matter? on Prezi

What's My Number:

Lizzy on Prezi

Amanda on Prezi

Bookflix and Mapping

Mrs. Thomas’s class did a fantastic activity with maps comparing two bookflix stories. They navigated our school website, went to our Library pages and under “Online Resources” found Bookflix. They choose "Earth and Sky" and selected two stories, "Hansel and Gretel" (fiction) and "We Need Directions" After listening to both stories they used the program kidspiration to build a compare/contrast web. This project helped them illustrate their understanding of how the mapping in the two stories were alike and different. Great idea Mrs. Thomas!

Turtle Pond

Ms. Carlson’s Second Grade class worked with Ms. Hintz our ITS in the computer lab to get turtles to the pond! This was a super fun way to explore math and social studies TEKS that align with the Second Grade Curriculum in mapping and plotting a course through measurement. Students navigated to our School Website and the “for Students” page where Ms Hintz hid a turtle. If you want to go directly to the pond yourself, go to: http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=83. Once on the site, students came up with navigating directions to send their turtle to the pond. Those that dared tried to do it without the grid and added obstacles. Many want to challenge their parents to see if they can do it. Most think their parents will their need help! So parents, can you get the turtle in the pond?

Thank you to Sommer Elementary ITS, Jen Freeman, for sharing this activity!

Laptops in Grade 1

Students in Grade 1 worked in pairs to logon and off of the laptops, find icons, and even navigate the Gattis Website and discover online reading resources. Students worked on Acceptable Use Policies and appropriate ways to handle our equipment. These responsible students did a fantastic job working together and demonstrating our AUP at Gattis.

AcivCafe at Gattis

Gattis Elementary hosted a districtwide Promethean training on Nov. 10th, 2011. District Educators had the opportunity to learn how to use Promethean ActivInspire's screen recording tools to create videos and tutorials that they can post on their TeacherWeb or blog to share with students and parents. Karen Adams from Promethean was our guest presenter and was fantastic at sharing ways to apply this and other clever tools available in the software.

If you are a teacher in the district and you are interested to see more Promethean resources created and shared by RRISD Instructional Technology Specialists, visit our Flipchart Wiki at http://rrisd-flipcharts.wikispaces.com/. There is one more ActivCafe Scheduled for teachers on Dec. 6th, register on Ecampus if you are interested in attending.