Google Cardboard at Gattis for a Day

On October 7th students in Grades 2, 3 and 5 were able to take virtual field trips without leaving the school.  Google came to Gattis for today and brought Google Cardboard and phones for 2 classes of students to explore with. Teachers and students were able to pilot a new program called Google Expeditions that hasn't been released to the public yet. Through the Google Cardboard lenses students were able to visit, Australia, Antarctica, Mount Rushmore, Great Barrier Reef, Wave Rock and many more destinations. Teachers were able to utilize these field trips to teach their students key points that relate back to their curriculum.  Here are some of the students in action.

Kinder at Spanish Playground

Mrs. Negron’s Dual Language Kinder classroom has been visiting the online Spanish Playground at http://www.spanishplayground.net/  to learn and practice a variety of skills. Students successfully navigate the school website to Mrs. Negron’s website and are able to open the playground themselves. Here are a few of her students in action!

Google Apps for Students

Here at Gattis we are a Google Apps for Education (GAFE) campus and district.  This week a few third grade classes got started with their Google Accounts. We logged into google accounts, opened and deleted an email and composed and email and sent it. Students learned how to navigate to Google Apps and signing in and out of our Google Accounts before logging off the machine. Students are not able to email other students, but they can collaborate on documents and presentations.

Augmented Reality

Happy International Dot Day! As a way to celebrate in our Next Generation Library at Gattis this week, students in Kinder, First and Second Grade classes are having an opportunity to create colorful dots then watch them come to life using an Augmented Reality iPad app called Quiver. If you want to try this app at home, download pages at QuiverVision.com 

Tuesday, September 15, is Dot Day. This day celebrates the book The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. In the book, a special art teacher encourages a student to be creative and "make your mark". Students have been creating dot art during their art classes, and they have been reading Peter H. Reynolds books in the library.

More information on Dot Day can be found here:

http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/get-started

Gattis connects with class in Seoul, Korea

안녕하세요! That's hello in Korean. Did you know that Miss Hintz, our Instructional Technology Specialist used to work in Seoul, Korea?  She still has friends there an a 5th grade class at Seoul Foreign School  is connecting with Mr. Brillhart's 5th Grade Tag class here at Gattis. So far we have created an Edmodo  online classroom and are are getting to know each other! We plan on sharing poetry and collaborating over the coming weeks.

Google Docs Collaboration

Grade One students have Google Apps for Education Accounts now! Effective Spring 2015. Mrs. Slavin's class had a blast collaborating on Google Docs and watching each other type.

2nd Grade Forecasts Weather

As part of the 2nd Grade Science unit on Weather, students have been forecasting weather on our local broadcast each morning for a month.  They did a fabulous job! At the end of the unit our local KVUE weather team visited Gattis and talked with them about what it's like to be a meteorologist outside of Gattis!

Check out the KVUE News Video clip here.