Art goes Online

Ms. L'Eplattenier, one of our Visual Arts Specialist here at Gattis uses all sorts of online resources with her students! She uses Google art project to look at Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Uffizi in Florence, The Louvre in Paris and several other major art museums throughout the world. Students have used our Library Research Resources such as, Gale info bits Encyclopedia Britannica and World Book Online to research artists such as Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein Grandma Moses, Keith Haring, Norman Rockwell, Georgia Okeefe and the Renaissance masters.  What do you want to know about art?

Artsonia

Congratulations to Donna Staten for being selected to present to elementary visual art teachers from across the state regarding her work with students and the web gallery Artsonia at the Texas Art Education Association Conference – Artistic Foundations in November in Dallas, Texas. She was featured in the RRISD Close-Up Publication. Check out our student artwork at  posted by our Art Teachers Ms Staten and Ms L'Eplattenier at http://www.artsonia.com/

 

Literacy with Document Cameras

First Grade teachers Ms. Drews and Mrs. Slavin both used the document camera or flipcam with students to make video presentation of their research projects. Students were able to research a topic, and create a visual aide for it.  This is a great way to take something on paper and digitize it, add narration and share it with peers, parents, or keep for a future measurement of growth. Watch these videos created by students in both classes.

• To See more from Ms. Drew's Class see her Research Project page on her teacher website at http://teacherweb.com/TX/GattisElementary/MsDrewsClass/apt2.aspx 
• To see more from Mrs. Slavin's Class visit her Research Project/Proyectos de Investigación page at http://slavinduallanguage.blogspot.com/2012/11/research-projects-round-2-proyectos-de.html

Tag Math Excels

In 4th Grade Tag Math, students use Microsoft Excel to determine the best value in pay by determining which pay scheme will net them $1000 first.

Math Skills: 

1. Create a table of values for a given pattern 
2. Describe, extend, and analyze patterns
3. Graph a given table of values 
4. Plot points on a coordinate grid 

 Technology Skills:  Use of Spreadsheet Application to...

1. Change heights and widths of rows and columns 
2. Create formulas 
3. Use the Fill function to extend tables 
4. Graph given sets of data displayed in tables 
5. Formatting cells to include commas
6. Navigate to Save on Network Folder

Smart Library

Not only is Mrs. Wallingford one smart Librarian, but she uses the Smart Interactive board with her classes. She has all sorts of lessons she does with her students using this interactive technology. Anytime you see a class having a lesson in the library, check out if she has them up at the board, or giving feedback. Here the class is voting on books and Genre. Way to go Mrs. Wallingford!

Bilingual Commercial

Gattis is a Dual Language Campus! Our 2nd Grade Dual Language Class created a Commercial with Miss Hintz for our Canned Food Drive for our Morning Broadcast and Gattis website. Mr. Marcano likes to use Technology with his class and as a way to communicate with his parents. Check out some of his resources, photos and videos on his Teacher Website at http://teacherweb.com/TX/GattisElementary/marcano/gallery1.aspx


Watch our Canned Food Drive Commercial here:

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.