First iPad project on Keynote

We started our first iPad project today and the kids are VERY excited to say the least.

I found this project from a teacher over at...soaringthroughsecond.blogspot.com.

They picked a partner that was not in their class last year. They interviewed their partner and discussed interesting facts for about twenty minutes. After they collected enough research for their project they checked out their iPad. Today on the iPad we learned how to search and save pictures on the web and take pictures with the camera on the iPad. 

Tomorrow we will learn how to use Keynoteand develop our first presentation in third grade! On Friday we are going to learn how to use our Google accounts and save our Keynote presentations directly to Google drive!

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We are loving getting to know everyone in our class! Their favorite greeting is the spiderweb! They greet other students by saying their name and throwing the web (yarn) over to them. After everyone has been greeted they let go and it pops up in the air. 

Have a fabulous week! Check back for some fabulous Keynote presentations!

Stamina in Third Grade!

This week we have been discussing our stamina and how we need to practice our reading to be able to have the stamina to read 30-40 minutes at a time. We discuss how a runner can not just go out one day and run a marathon, they first have to practice and prepare for the marathon. This week we have dedicated to practice our stamina for Read to Self. I have learned that the stamina of a third grader is far stronger than a first grader! I have literally had students begging me to read during different parts of the day. This is a good thing, but it is quite different than what I am used to. I love that the students know their interests and the genres they want to read. We made it to 7 yesterday and 15 today. They were amazing and most of them could have continued to read for much longer.

I am loving getting to know all of the new faces and loving being with all that I have had before! We are having a lengthy morning meeting each morning this week to get to know one another and learn classroom expectations. This day we tossed a ball back and forth asking about one another and their favorites.

Have a great weekend!

Back to School in Third Grade!!!

Some of you have started to get your teacher letters and I wanted to say that I am beyond excited to have you all this year! After 6 years in first grade, I have decided to move to third! I am beyond excited for this new adventure and have been planning all summer!

Please join us for Back to school night on August 11! I can not wait to meet all the new faces and see all of the students I have had before!

Looking forward to the best third grade year ever!!!

Publishing Party!

Today we started to publish our recent stories using this app! 

Look at them go!!!!

I will post these stories when we are finished!!

Synonyms and Symbols!

Last week we studies synonyms and it was so much fun! We made synonym flowers, cinnamon synonym rolls and much more! 

                                   

We also finished our symbols unit a couple of weeks ago! I am amazed at the work they present to their class! They are so proficient on the iPad! I love for them to research, learn, and teach their classmates about what they know! 

Check them out!

Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app

Animal Madness

Well March and March Madness have come and gone but....I have some fantastic animal presentations for you!!! These firsties worked very hard on these projects. We checked books out at the library, internet research and wrote our reports before we put all of the info in to Haiku Deck. 

The VA standard of learning for animals is: 1.5 The student will investigate and understand that animals, including humans, have basic needs and certain distinguishing characteristics.

So we discussed animal classifications and characteristics and then the students choose an animal to investigate further. They needed to add what habitat their animal lived in, how it moved, and what kind of covering it had. 

Here are the finished project!



Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app


We presented our presentations to the class today! I hope you enjoyed, they worked really hard on them!

February Fun

February Fun

Although the kids would rather go outside, indoor recess has been a blast for them since I found these blocks. They LOVE them! Let's hope it stays warm so we can go outside for the rest of the year!!!!

The 100th day was a BLAST! The kids did a great job dressing up and we made this 100 day snack which was really yummy!