Media & Tech Tips
February 5, 2016
Plug IN!
Book Fair
Our Scholastic Book Fair was a success! The students had a great time purchasing their books. The profits from our fair allow us to pay for books, laminating materials, and reading incentives. Thanks for your patience and flexibility during the past two weeks!
Six Flags Program
The Six Flags Read To Succeed Program deadline is coming soon! Signed student forms, showing they have read their 360 minutes, are due to you on February 16th! More information to come as the due date drawers nearer.
Databases
Everyone at Norton is using the databases the county provides for us! To date this school year, we have a total of 33,816 “clicks”! These databases provide an opportunity for students and teachers to supplement their learning.
Safari Montage Part II
eCLASS Ya'll Come!
COMING SOON! New Student Information System
What's Been Going On??
Jennifer A. Martin's Kindergarten friends have been "roving reporters" taking pictures of shapes they find in school. They are going to create a class book that plays on the work of Bill Martin & Eric Carle.
Sue Geary's class has been working on using adjectives in their writing. We read the story "Snowmen at Night" and found snowmen of our own in Microsoft Word. After writing about the snowmen they chose, the students put their writing in Tagxedo.com to create snowman word clouds.
Patricia Buford's fourth graders have been working on learning about the Declaration of Independence. After watching a brief Safari Montage video, the students answered questions as a discussion post in eCLASS. Finally, we took the text of the Declaration of Independence and popped it into Tagxedo to create a word cloud. The next step is for students to write about the words that "jump out" to them from the word cloud.
AS ALWAYS....If you have a project you would like to work on in the lab, please let Jennifer know. If you need ideas for projects, she is more than happy to help!