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October 15 , 2004
Classroom Bytes
Go Beyond the Four Walls
Are Double Stuffed Oreos really double stuffed? Cindy Arnold's second graders recently participated in the Online Oreo Project 2004. Online projects are a wonderful way students can gather data and compare information with other classrooms. Check out some pictures from Mrs. Arnold's Oreo Day and click the link to view the final results at the main web site.

More Online Projects

Dear Soldier is a project that will begin on November 1. Since we have family members overseas I would like for us to begin a correspondence with this project and our staff's family members. Look for more information in the next two weeks!
Seasonal Changes is a global project where seasonal data is collected and shared with students in different geographic areas. Please let me know ASAP if you would like to do this one since data collecting is happening right now.
Student Spotlight News
How are you incorporating student spotlight into your curriculum? Check out spotlights that are now ready for viewing. There are many wonderful things happening in classrooms and student spotlight is a great place to share and publish your students' work.
Mrs. Thomas' kindergarten's are learning how to use Kid Pix. Check out Fall is Here!
Mrs. Stone's first graders wrote diamond poems and displayed their corn webs.
Mrs. Arnold's second grader are beginning to write in a daily journal.
Mrs. Bump's third graders are also beginning to write using an online journal.
Mrs. Sisk's and Mrs. Meyer's class have been writing paragraphs and narratives. Mrs. Sapp's class wrote book reports. Check out Sean M.'s report!
 
 
Web Bytes - Election 2004
 Kids Voting 2004

There are many resources at Kids Voting 2004. This site as well as a few others are book marked under Activities at Midway>#Election2004.

There is also a folder called #2004Election in the student share drive(L:\) that contains many templates to use with your students.
   
 
   
Tech Training
  
Next Tuesday, October 26, I will be in the media center for Teacher Web Page Updating during planning.
 
 
 
Tech Byte  

How do you create a form in Microsoft Word? Here are directions as well as templates to use with your students. Forms are a great tool to use with your reluctant writers. Save these forms to the student share drive in your folder for easy access. Better yet, make a form that fits your students' needs.
Tech Tip-Teach the students how to use the tab key to move from field to field.

Building Forms in Microsoft Word Feelings and Sentence Beginnings
   
Diamond Poems Across the Curriculum
Diamond Poem Template
Poetry Forms - Biopoems
Biopoem Template
 

Check out this Blue Ribbon Site!
Instant Poetry Forms

 
 

Kathy Adkins
Instructional Technology Specialist
Forsythia County Schools
The Technology Loop