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More Research Writing for the Pet Project
Here are a few more pieces of writing from our research unit titled the Pet Project: Jake Jellyfish Micaella Chimpanzees Eric Gorillas George Penguins Cian Wolves
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Pet Project Writing, Part 3
Here is the final batch of Pet Project, non-fiction writing: AnnaFoxes MeiyiElephants OliviaDolphins MarlieSnakes OwenChameleons
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Roman Diagrams
Picture of the day – today we worked on making diagrams of our Roman artifacts. This work will be on display at our Roman Market Day in mid-December. Here you can see that each student searched the...
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Technology and Nature Studies: Can Two Worlds Collide?
So far this year, we’ve used the iPads mainly in our own classrooms and at some specialist classes. So it was with a little hesitation that we took our iPads off campus and into the great outdoors on...
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Roman Diagrams
Here are two examples of the diagrams we are making for our Roman artifacts. We made these diagrams using Explain Everything. They will be on display at our Roman Forum Day as a part of our artifact...
View Article4Kish Film Festival
In computer class, students got a chance to use iMovie to make a short documentary about a topic or issue here at school. This was a great chance for the students to get familiar with iMovie so that we...
View Article4Kish Film Festival, Continued
Here’s the next set of videos that the students made in computer class. They got to watch them in class yesterday and enjoyed seeing them. Tune in tomorrow for the last set!
View Article4Kish Film Festival, the Finale!
Here’s the final set of videos that the students made in computer class.
View ArticleTellagami – Mindless Fun or Educationally Worthwhile?
While chatting with our librarian a few weeks ago, she introduced me and a few of the students to an app called Tellagami. With Tellagami you can create and share animated messages like the one below....
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Starting the year with feedback, effort, and prototyping
How do you go from this: To this: Or this: To this: This is how! The start of the year is the time to set expectations for how students work and live in the classroom. At my new school (!), we are...
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