Showcase Project - 2nd Grade Poetry

Second grade students have been writing poetry with Ms. Montali. During technology time, students illustrated and published their poetry using Foundation purchased laptops. The second grade poets then recorded themselves reading their poetry piece.

Listen to the 2nd Grade Poetry pieces by clicking on the links below (note: poems are organized by the rotation):

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Showcase Project - Kindergarten Aquarium Books

Kindergarten students enjoyed a wonderful field trip to the nearby Birch Aquarium. After the field trip, students created Aquarium Mini-Books using Microsoft Powerpoint. Students typed in text and imported pictures into their projects. Beautiful covers were designed for their mini-books. The results were too cute!

Showcase Project - Halloween Digital Stories

Students in Grade 3 created digital stories using Microsoft Photostory. To create digital stories, students wrote Halloween stories and then drew pictures depicting various scenes of their stories. The pictures were then scanned and imported into Photostory. Students then added narration and created their own music to go along with their stories. A sample digital story, "North American Halloween", may be viewed here: eugenia photostory compressed.wmv

Showcase Project - Kindergarten Study of Animal Life Cycles

Kindergarten students studied animal life cycles in their Science class with Ms. Isom. During technology time, they created posters using Comic Life that demonstrated their knowledge of the different life cycle stages of a chicken. 

Showcase Project - Grade 3 ABC Books

Grade 3 students created ABC books on a topic of their choice. Topics were researched and students were given instruction on how to create a Powerpoint presentation. This project was worked on a majority of the time during independent work time using classroom netbooks. 

Showcase Project - Kindergarten Study of Ways to Make Numbers

Kindergarten students have been working with ways to represent a number. During technology time, they created pictures using Tux Paint that demonstrated different ways to represent a number.

Showcase Project - Kindergarten Nicies Book Pages

Kindergarten students read several books from the Meanies series of books as part of their character study unit. Students were instructed to create a page using Tux Paint for a classroom Nicies book.