Daily Use of the Promethean Board

The 2nd grade students have been enjoying using the Promethean Board to review fact family.

4 Holidays in December

Mrs. Bond's first grade class is using the computers this week to do seasonal research. The teacher had created a PowerPoint for each December holiday. The students are writing expository text regarding their studies and compiling their writing in a bound book for their parents.  Mrs. Bond used her phone to share these with us today.

Christmas    Hannakah    Kwanzaa    La Posadas

Watch a Venus Fly Trap in Action!

Ms. Kosub, fourth grade teacher at Purple Sage Elementary, discovered in our tech training this past week how neat it is to videotape what goes on under her document camera.  She was able to capture the excitement of her class and that true teachable moment.  Listen to her class answering all her questions as they watch a Venus Fly Trap in action!  What an AWESOME video!!
 Click Venus Fly Trap Video to view.
In language arts, Ms. Kosub's class read a paired passage that had a poem and an article about the Venus flytrap.  The students got really interested and started asking a lot of questions.  Over the break, Ms. Kosub mentioned the enthusiasm to her dad, and he bought her class a pitcher plant and a Venus flytrap (at Lowe's).  When they first got it, all of the pads were closed, but on Friday one opened, so the students caught a beetle at recess.  The rest is in the video.  It is their "pet" project!  Now Ms. Kosub is using the carnivorous plants to model planning a research project in writing.  They were also able to tie this into science because they just finished a unit on soil, and these plants have some very interesting habitat requirements.