Classroom+Spotlight

Classroom Spotlights:

While reading a non-fiction story called Rainforest Babies, Mrs. Burgett's 2nd grade class learned how to use headings and reader's aids to locate important information about a particular animal in the rainforest.

They used that information to compare and contrast their characteristics. Students used an online tool called Glogster to create posters portraying all of the new facts that they learned.

Students had a blast learning new things while expressing themselves creatively through the use of this educational tool!

Click on this poster to view it in Glogster.

Miss Dause's class demonstrated their Math skills by writing Math stories using multiplication and division situations. Students used Comic Life to illustrate those stories.

 Miss Snyder's RTI enrichment group researched animals as part of their work on non-fiction text. Students used PhotoBooth (using the "green screen" effect) to record themselves with video they selected playing in the background.

Students in Mrs. Vogel's class used Kids Pix Deluxe to create Talking Turkeys. Check out what the turkeys are saying about being the object of affection at Thanksgiving. Students used different colors, patterns, backgrounds, and pencil thickness to create their Talking Turkeys. The pictures were then exported as .jpg files and put into imovie.



Mrs. Brubaker's first graders used Kid Pix and Voicethread to share their thoughts on the seasons.

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Mrs. Fleming's first grade class shared how they were learning about manners with a "Do Unto Otters" project using Comic Life. (based on a book about manners)

Miss Lang's 5th grade homeroom created Mixbooks based on their research on a topic of their choosing. Click the picture to go to examples.

Mrs. Varner's 4th grade class used Excel to make calculations to determine probability with the help of their principal, Mr. Clifton. [|Click here to download a sample Excel sheet] [|Click here for a link to the lesson plan.]

Mrs. Cavanaugh's Reading Class surveyed students in grades 3, 4, and 5 after reading a story about bike safety. Then they entered their data into Excel and created bar graphs to represent the results. This graph was created by Blake Sanchez.

Mrs. Kann's 4th grade (Wellsville) created Timelines to illustrate historic events from their Social Studies content on Early America. They used the Timeliner program to design the timelines. Here's an example of one of the timelines, created by Katelyn Goodling.



Click on the picture below to view one of the Glogster (online) posters created by Miss Snyder's Reading Class for their Endangered Animals project. This poster was created by Ashley Hannon.