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eBook Publishing Party with First Grade Buddies

My students have been writing machines!  The students were first assigned to write Halloween eBooks.  The students were then assigned to write Thanksgiving eBooks.  We have shared our stories with our first grade buddies from Mrs. Landefeld's class.  Here are some photos of the celebration:

Students Learn How to Create iMovie Trailers on the iPad

Since the class learned how to do iMovie on the computers on their field trip to the Apple Store, I wanted to teach them how to do iMovie trailers on their iPads.  The students each chose a familiar picture book.  Their task was to create iMovie book trailers.  (The eventual goal is to publish these trailers and to create QR codes for each trailer. The students will then put the QR codes in the school and classroom libraries so other students can listen and watch their movies.)  The students needed some time just to explore all the trailer options (theme- format/soundtrack/font/etc.) to see what was available (and to get "playing" out of their system).  After a few minutes of exploring the themes, they each selected a theme and worked on taking photos and videos to add to their book trailers.  They have been working on the typing and having peers edit their trailers before finding a teacher or adult to help edit spelling and grammar.  We will post the iMovie book trailers soon!

 

The Entire Second Grade Visits the Apple Store!

The entire second grade at Jamestown Elementary went to the Apple Store in Clarendon over a series of 3 days.  The students learned how to use iMovie and created movies of animals, inspired from their visit to the National Zoo a week earlier.  The classes hosted a movie festival when they returned to school!

Here are photos from Ms. Payack's class visit!

Ms. Dye, Ms. Gagliolo, and Ms. Blake Collaborate

The teachers exchange ideas each Friday during their PLC (Professional Learning Community) meeting from 10:00-10:45am.  They also meet for a full-day each month to share ideas, have training on projects and ideas, and work on their goals.  Here is a snapshot of Ms. Dye sharing her class project with Ms. Blake and Ms. Gagliolo.

Students Creating & Solving Math Story Problems

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Students took photos of the story problems in their math workbooks and imported them to Drawing Pad.  They used the tools (colored pencils, stickers, pencils, crayons, etc.) as math manipulatives in order to solve the story problems.  They worked individually and in pairs and trios to solve the problems.  Here is a video clip of one team of students solving the story problem on the iPad.

Math Story problems on the iPad

Story problems can be difficult for any math student, especially second graders-- who are still working on reading fluency.  Today we began our story problem unit.  Instead of just reading problem after problem and solving in the workbook, students took photos of each problem from their workbooks, cropped the photo to zoom in on the text, and imported the problems to Drawing Pad, where they used the digital stickers and markers to act as manipulatives and solve the problems. The kids loved it! They are enjoying story problems and can easily draw pictures to understand the words on their iPads!