October
1 , 2004
| The COWs are Coming! |
| The student notebook carts are visiting many classrooms for orientation. The COWs, as we fondly call them (Computers on Wheels), are greeted with much enthusiasm by our students. Before you use the notebooks in your classroom, you must coordinate a time with me to conduct an orientation with you. Over the next few weeks I will be contacting you to set up a time to discuss curriculum and a time to visit your classroom for the orientation. |
| We are using instructional templates on some of these first time visits to the classroom. Folders on the student share drive at each grade level contain some of the templates that are being created. Please save templates that you have created in these folders called #Our Work so all students and teachers can use them. |
Remember when you make a template in Inspiration or Kidspiration, you need to make it read only! How To Make a Template Read Only
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| Integration News from the Classrooms |
| Kindergarten students are learning to recognize color words. Using this template in Kid Pix they can drag and drop stamps into the correct box. Using this super grouper template in Kidspiration they can drag objects from the symbols library. |
| Mrs. Wynne's first graders recently used the student notebooks for the first time and learned how to drag animals into their correct habitat using Kidspirations super grouper tool. |
| Mrs. Sonmez's first graders sorted ryhming pictures in Kidspiration when they used the laptops the first time. |
| Mrs. Cummings' second graders used a fact family template in Kidspiration to create fact family number sentences. |
| Mrs. Evan's second graders used the notebooks for the first time to review landform vocabulary by matching vocabulary with their definitions in Kidspiration. |
| Mrs. Sapp's fifth graders used the notebooks to work on their How To Power Point Slide shows and save them as web pages. |
- Kidz
Club - These
are wonderful stories for the primary grades. Be sure to click the orange
arrows to see more stories for each grade level.
Color Words and The Alphabet Book allow students to select different pages.
- Starfall - What an awesome site that is free. There are so many wonderful features at this site. ABC's to the Learn to Read links are great for the beginning reader. I'm Reading allows students to read at their own pace.
- Story Place - This site offers preschool theme stories such as colors as well as an elementary theme site that allows students to input character names.
- Lil' Fingers Storybooks- These stories allow the young reader to read on their own. Check out Pumpkins.
- Clifford Stories Our favorite dog has online stories!
- The Itsy Bitsy Spider - Click the little spider to turn the pages.
- Barnyard Babies - A Story Song
- A
Bug Time Story
- NASA for Kids- NASA.gov offers many multimedia resources. Check out how Hurricanes get their names by reading the Hurricane Name Book.
- NASA for Students - Be sure to visit this site for many educational Resources. Click here for Grades 5-8.
Tech
Bytes
Right
click on the image to save the file to an appropriate folder.
Let me know of images we may need for clubs or activities.
Kathy
Adkins
Instructional Technology Specialist
Forsyth County Schools
The Technology Loop