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.

Reading on a Computer

Students in various grade levels love to read and love the computer, why not read on the computer? There are many only programs that are interactive with reading. Here you see students using http://www.starfall.com/ to read books. Starfall has an option to have some of the words read out loud for you, great for young readers.  As Gattis has the Dual Language Program at our School, we especially love to read on bookflix and Tumblebooks since it has both English and Spanish options.

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.

Gattis Goes Google!

This School year Gattis Elementary and all of RRISD has gone Google.  Teaches are using a version of Gmail which will enable them to streamline communication with parents. We are using Google forms to collect data and survey our families, students and staff and Calendars to keep each other informed!  If you would like to subscribe to our Gattis Google calendar here are the steps. 

1. Have a Google account of your own, it doesn't have to be Gmail, in fact you can go to google.com and register another email address to create a Google account.
2. Go to the Gattis website at http://schools.roundrockisd.org/Gattis/
3. On the bottom right of the calendar, click on the “+Google Calendar” button
4. A prompt will appear that will ask you “Would you like to add calendar: gattis_master@roundrockisd.org?  Click “Yes, add this calendar”

Now, when you look at your google calendar, you will see our Gattis Calendar as well! Never miss another fantastic Event!

Food Chain in Kidspiration

Second Grade students created a food chain in the mind-mapping program, Kidspiration.  This was a great assessment of the concept of Science concept of food chains for the students.  Students also did writing about their food chains as a curricular link to Language Arts.  Great job Grade 2 in Ms. Wolfean's Class!

Technology as a Tool

Technology is a great tool for various reasons!  In the Resource classrooms there are some great individualized programs that students can use and set their own pace. Students are motivated by the interactivity of the programs and teachers are able to monitor progress.

Preparing for STAAR goes Interactive

As classes prepare for the upcoming STAAR Tests, they get interactive with Promethean Boards and Voting Devices.  Here are just a few examples of a 5th Grade Science, 4th and 3rd Grade Math Review Flipcharts.  Using the voting devices is a great way for teachers to get instant feedback on what skills need further review.