3rd Grade Art Class Integration

Mrs. Turnbull, Eason's Art Teacher, had her 3rd grade classes integrate technology into their Art experiences using a web site called KerPoof.  The student's came into the computer lab and used KerPoof to create a scene with 10 overlapping objects and 1 drawing of their own.  The scenes related to water/ocean and once the students were done they printed them to take and show Mrs. Turnbull.  The students had a wonderful time using KerPoof and they have been reminded that this is a web site they can use at home.
Parents if you want your students to have an account with KerPoof for uses at home please look through the web site and help your student(s) set one up.

4th Grade Microsoft Excel

The 4th grade students are still working on using Microsoft Excel to survey students and the import that information into an Excel document.  So far most of them have surveyed their peers.  Some of the topics have been interesting as per what students are choosing and their creativity with their choices to ask the students.

Examples:
Favorite Jordan Creek Store
Favorite Sub Sandwich Restaurant
Favorite AL Central MLB team
Favorite School Subject

Some of the students are starting to import their information into Excel using the template shown below.  They are learning to click in cells and replace the information, click on blank cells and input information, learning how to add the total number of students together using Excel's formula and function and learning how to find the percentage using the formula and function tools for each choice based on the total number of students.
So if you have Microsoft Excel at home the students should easily be able to open it up, save the document as their own and the start to add information into the rows, columns and cells to keep track or categorize anything.
 Let them play around or better yet show them how you use Excel at home or at work.

Kindergarten Integration

The Kindergarten students have been taking the last few class periods to use KidPix to create a variety of printed activities related to their classroom curriculum.
They first worked on creating a winter scene picture, which included a sentence/statement related to the picture.  Students created winter scene pictures in relationship to sledding, snow falling, building a snow man, building a snow fort, and even building a snow dog.
Students also created an activity related to the 100th day of school where they stamped 10 groups of stamps with 10 stamps in each group to equal 100 total stamps.


The students have also been exploring a new version of KidPix called KidPix Deluxe 3D where the backgrounds and animations are in 3D and movies are a part of the students KidPix experience.  To push it to the limits the students can save their finished projects with the 3D backgrounds and animations as a 3D movie where 3D glasses are needed to view the movie.  Pretty cool and hopefully something some class at Eason will try this school year.

1st Grade Integration

The first grade students just finished printing their bedroom maps where they created either a "top down" or "look from your door" view of the bedroom with labels.  Please take a look at their printed pictures in their portfolios during conferences and see if the picture they created in KidPix looks similar to their bedroom.

They now are using KidPix Deluxe 3D to create math number sentences where they are grouping 1 set of stamps and either adding and/or subtracting that group with another group of stamps to find the total number of stamps left.  So for example: 10 monkeys - 5 bananas = 5 zoos.  Be looking for these in their student portfolios.

They next will be using KidPix to create ABC books with stamps, stickers, animations and even pictures of items related to their ABC letter from around the school.

Room Pictures:

Math Number Sentence Picture:

2nd Grade Integration

The 2nd grade students are finishing up their Fiction Stories using KerPoof or Picture Book Maker.  They have had a fun time integrating the ability to type their stories on the computer from the rough drafts and first copies they made in their classrooms.  Please check these out in their portfolios during conferences in March.

They are now taking a couple times to research about penguins, play penguin games and even are using online webcams to watch penguins live.

Picture Book Maker Story:

5th Grade Countries-Poster

The fifth grade students have recently finished using Microsoft Word as a graphical tool to create a poster to entice someone to travel to their country.  They had certain things that had to include but with the goal in mind that if they would hand their 1 page poster document to someone on the street would they be interested and engaged to ask more questions about traveling to your country.  The fifth grade students did a wonderful with this, learning how to insert pictures into their poster, how to move them around, how to insert WordArt and text boxes to be able to type anywhere, and how to fill their page up with credible pictures and information to be creative.

Please check out their finished Microsoft Word Posters.

3rd Grade Internet Safety

Oh yes, the 3rd grade students are going to take a brief break from Keyboarding (they are doing a wonderful job) and are going to learn some information about internet safety.  The 3rd grade students are going to be doing a FBI Scavenger Hunt full of web sites to answer questions related to a variety of Internet Safety web sites and information.  Internet Safety is something we talk to the students about within 3rd, 4th and 5th grade, not solely for school purposes but more important for the use of the Internet at home.  Please talk to your students about what they are learning in relationship to Internet Safety, and you might learn something new.  Check out the information they are going to be looking for:

Student Technology Pictures

Please check out pictures of your student(s) using technology at:

K-2 Integration
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3rd Grade
Click on Technology Pictures

4th Grade
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5th Grade
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4th Grade Microsoft Excel

The 4th grade students started to learn about Microsoft Excel today.  Using Microsoft Excel they are going to survey students in their specific class about a topic with 5 choices, such as favorite flavor of ice cream.  With the survey results they are going to use Excel to type in the results, figure out the percentage of students for each choice, and the create a pie graph, bar graph, and line graph based on the results.
They are then going to use the same results to create a pictograph (picture bar graph) by finding pictures online using free digital picture web sites (not Google Images for copyright reasons) to use to create the graph.

Here are some examples:

So for the next few cycles your students will be exploring Microsoft Excel and should be apply some of their learning to using Microsoft Excel at home to keep track of their allowance, keep track of baseball/basketball/football card collections and its profit, and/or to keep track of money made during their summer jobs/chores.

Please help them out at home and show them how you use Excel at home or in your work place.