B/3 -- Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Hilgers' Class --  McDonald's vs Burger King (Day 1)
Students learned how to access nutrition data online at www.nutritiondata.com Students learned how to add nutritional data about a meal at McDonald's (Big Mac, Fries and Sundae) and a meal at Burger King (Whopper, Fries and Sundae Pie) to a spreadsheet in MS Excel.  Students found information on:  Total fat, Cholesterol, Sodium and Carbs. 

• Next Time:  Continue to work on McDonald's vs Burger King Graphing

Veeder's Class --  Edmodo and Food Bank Research (Day 1)
Joined Edmodo groups (School, 4th grade and Class group).  Demo'ed how to access Edmodo Food Bank Assignment and complete assignment.  Students worked on Food Bank Assignment and turned in completed assignment via Edmodo.

• Next Time:  Finish Food Bank Research??? or Finish NC County Project.

Nixon's Class -- 3rd Grade Performance Practice

Students will practice with the other classes for the 3rd Grade Twinkle and Shine Performance. 

• Next Time:  Adding avatar to Edmodo.  Sending and receiving a message.  Participating in a poll.

A/2 -- Monday, November 25, 2013

Roberts' Class --  McDonald's vs Burger King (Day 1)
Students learned how to access nutrition data online at www.nutritiondata.com Students learned how to add nutritional data about a meal at McDonald's (Big Mac, Medium Fries and Hot Fudge Sundae) and a meal at Burger King (Whopper, Medium Fries and Sundae Pie) to a spreadsheet in MS Excel.  Students found information on:  Total fat, Cholesterol, Sodium and Carbs. 

• Next Time:  Continue to work on McDonald's vs Burger King Graphing

Hale's Class --  Edmodo and Food Bank Research
Joined Edmodo groups (School, 4th grade and Class group).  Demo'ed how to access Edmodo Food Bank Assignment and complete assignment.  Students worked on Food Bank Assignment and turned in completed assignment via Edmodo.

• Next Time:  Finish Food Bank Research??? or Finish NC County Project.

Reynolds' Class -- 3rd Grade Performance Practice

Students will practice with the other classes for the 3rd Grade Twinkle and Shine Performance. 

• Next Time:  Adding avatar to Edmodo.  Sending and receiving a message.  Participating in a poll.

 

D/1 -- Friday, November 22, 2013

Bolebruch's Class --  McDonald's vs Burger King (Day 1)
Students learned how to access nutrition data online at www.nutritiondata.com Students learned how to add nutritional data about a meal at McDonald's (Big Mac, Large Fries and Hot Fudge Sundae) and a meal at Burger King (Whopper, Large Fries and Sundae Pie) to a spreadsheet in MS Excel.  Students found information on:  Total fat, Cholesterol, Sodium and Carbs. 

• Next Time:  Continue to work on McDonald's vs Burger King Graphing

Faulhaber's Class --  Edmodo and Food Bank Research
Joined Edmodo groups (School, 4th grade and Class group).  Demo'ed how to access Edmodo Food Bank Assignment and complete assignment.  Students worked on Food Bank Assignment and turned in completed assignment via Edmodo.

• Next Time:  Finish Food Bank Research??? or Finish NC County Project.

Blackwood's Class -- Adding Avatar to Edmodo and Participating in an Edmodo Poll

Students learned to access their save avatars and added their individual avatars to their Edmodo account.  Students learned to send and reply to messages.  Students learned to participate in and participated in an Edmodo poll.

• Next Time:  Learning how to access and use Edmodo apps.

C/5 -- Thursday, November 21, 2013

Monroe's Class --  McDonald's vs Burger King (Day 1)
Students learned how to access nutrition data online at www.nutritiondata.com Students learned how to add nutritional data about a meal at McDonald's (Big Mac, Large Fries and Hot Fudge Sundae) and a meal at Burger King (Whopper, Large Fries and Sundae Pie) to a spreadsheet in MS Excel.  Students found information on:  Total fat, Cholesterol, Sodium and Carbs. 

•  Next Time:  Continue to work on McDonald's vs Burger King Graphing

Stangler's Class --  "NC County" Project (Day 7)

Students continued working with their partner or by themselves to create their PowerPoint, save slides as jpegs, upload to VoiceThread and add their voiceovers.

•  Next Time:  Students will continue to work on NC County Project and then NC County Voicethreads.  Edmodo???

Little's Class -- Creating an Avatar 
Demo'ed how to access Edmodo from home.  Demo'ed how to create an avatar while using Pickaface.net. Students created and saved an avatar that represents themselves. 

• Next time:  Adding avatar to Edmodo and to Voicethread.

B/4 -- Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Hilgers' Class --  Using Formulas in Excel - Creating "Guess My Number" Game

Students learned to use formulas in MS Excel to evaluate data in surronding cells.Students starting building the "Guess My Number" game with these formulas.

•  Next Time:  Demo "Guess My Number Game," McDonald's vs Burger King Graphing???  

Hale's Class --  Thank You notes for Carolina Ballet
Demo'ed how to create a greeting card in MS Publisher.  Students created thank you notes for the Carolina Ballet visitors that led a presentation on Wednesday, November 13. 

Barefoot --   Edmodo -- registering and Learning to access
Students registered for an Edmodo account.  Students with parent permission joined an Edmodo group(Apex ES 2013-2014).  Students learned how to access Edmodo at home.

• Next time:  Creating an avatar with Pickaface avatar creator.

A/3 -- Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Roberts' Class --  Creating an Avatar

Demo'ed how to create an avatar while using Pickaface.net. Students created and saved an avatar that represents themselves.  Students added their new avatar to Edmodo and Voicethread.

Hale's Class --  Thank You notes for Carolina Ballet
Demo'ed how to create a greeting card in MS Publisher.  Students created thank you notes for the Carolina Ballet visitors that led a presentation on Wednesday, November 13. 

Nixon's Class --  Edmodo -- registering and Learning to access
Students registered for an Edmodo account.  Students with parent permission joined Edmodo groups (Apex ES, 3rd Grade and Nixon group).  Students learned how to access Edmodo at home.

• Next time:  Creating an avatar with Pickaface avatar creator.

D/2 -- Monday, November 18, 2013

Bolebruch's Class --  Thank You notes for Carolina Ballet
Demo'ed how to create a greeting card in MS Publisher.  Students created thank you notes for the Carolina Ballet visitors that led a presentation on Wednesday, November 13.

Hale's Class --  Thank You notes for Carolina Ballet
Demo'ed how to create a greeting card in MS Publisher.  Students created thank you notes for the Carolina Ballet visitors that led a presentation on Wednesday, November 13. 

Reynolds' Class -- Creating an Avatar

Demo'ed how to create an avatar while using Pickaface.net. Students created and saved an avatar that represents themselves.

C/1 -- Friday, November 15, 2013

Monroe's Class --  Thank You notes for Carolina Ballet
Demo'ed how to create a greeting card in MS Publisher.  Students created thank you notes for the Carolina Ballet visitors that led a presentation on Wednesday, November 13.

Faulhaber's Class --  Thank You notes for Carolina Ballet
Demo'ed how to create a greeting card in MS Publisher.  Students created thank you notes for the Carolina Ballet visitors that led a presentation on Wednesday, November 13. 

Blackwood's Class -- Creating an Avatar

Demo'ed how to create an avatar while using Pickaface.net. Students created and saved an avatar that represents themselves.

B/5 -- Thursday, November 14, 2013

Hilgers' Class --  Thank You notes for Carolina Ballet
Demo'ed how to create a greeting card in MS Publisher.  Students created thank you notes for the Carolina Ballet visitors that led a presentation on Wednesday, November 13. 

•  Next Time:  McDonald's vs Burger King Graphing???  Maybe Info Text lesson for Mrs. Hilgers.

Stangler's Class --  Thank You notes for Carolina Ballet
Demo'ed how to create a greeting card in MS Publisher.  Students created thank you notes for the Carolina Ballet visitors that led a presentation on Wednesday, November 13.

• Next Time:  Students will continue to work on NC County Project and then NC County Voicethreads.

Little's Class -- Edmodo -- registering and Learning to access
Students registered for an Edmodo account.  Students with parent permission joined Edmodo groups (Apex ES, 3rd Grade and Little's group).

• Next time:  Students will learn how to access Edmodo at home. Edmodo access and registering with some students.  Creating an avatar with Pickaface avatar creator.

A/4 -- Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Visiting Ballet Company -- Cultural Arts by PTA

Roberts' Class --  Visting Ballet Company
Students participated in visiting ballet company to learn more about the arts.  Visitors demo'ed several moves and had several students demo the moves for their peers.  Visiting dancers described their professional life in the ballet company.

• Next Time:   Join Mrs. Hilgers' SS group. Creating Avatar using PickAFace.  

Lee' sClass --  Visting Ballet Company
Students participated in visiting ballet company to learn more about the arts.  Visitors demo'ed several moves and had several students demo the moves for their peers.  Visiting dancers described their professional life in the ballet company.

• Next Time:  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Barefoot's Class --  Visting Ballet Company
Students participated in visiting ballet company to learn more about the arts.  Visitors demo'ed several moves and had several students demo the moves for their peers.  Visiting dancers described their professional life in the ballet company.

• Next Time:   Edmodo access and registering

D/3 -- Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Bolebruch's Class --  Edmodo -- Joining Groups

Reviewed how to create an avatar using Pickaface.net. Students saved avatar to their home directory. Students uploaded it to Edmodo if they chose to update their avatar. Students added their pickaface avatar to their VoiceThread identities. 

Veeder's Class -- Practicing Keyboarding Skills (Substitute due to Ms. Reid's off campus meeting)
Students used Type to Learn to practice keyboarding skills.

•  Next Time:  .NC County Project  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Nixon's Class -- Internet Safety (Substitute due to Ms. Reid's off campus meeting)

Students watched an internet safety video on Brain Pop.  Students summarized rules from the video and categorized listed actions as safe or not safe.

• Next time:  Edmodo access and registering

C/2 -- Friday, November 8, 2013

Monroe's Class --  Adding a new identity to Voicethread and Keyboard Practice
Students learn how to Add a new avatar to Voicethread.  Catch up day.  Students Practiced keyboarding.

•  Next Time:  McDonald's vs Burger King Graphing???  

Hale's Class --  "NC County" Project (Day 6)

Students continued working with their partner or by themselves creating their PowerPoint, uploading their slides to Voicethread and adding voiceovers to NC County Project 

•  Next Time:  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Reynolds' Class -- Edmodo -- registering and Learning to access
Students registered for an Edmodo account.  Students with parent permission joined Edmodo groups (Apex ES, 3rd Grade and Blackwood group).  Students learned how to access Edmodo at home.

• Next time:  Edmodo access and registering with some students.  Creating an avatar with Pickaface avatar creator.

B/1 -- Thursday, November 7, 2013

Hilgers' Class --  Catch Up Day and Keyboarding Practice
Students joined Mrs. Hilgers' group for SS. If they chose to do so, students added their new avatar to their Voicethread account.  Some students joined the Edmodo groups (Apex ES, 5th Grade and Hilgers) because their permission form was finally turned in.  Students practiced keyboarding skills while using Type to Learn.

•  Next Time:  McDonald's vs Burger King Graphing???  Maybe Info Text lesson for Mrs. Hilgers.

Faulhaber's Class --  "NC County" Project (Day 6)

Students continued to work on their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicethread and adding their voice overs.

•  Next Time:  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Blackwood's Class -- Edmodo -- registering and Learning to access
Students registered for an Edmodo account.  Students joined Edmodo groups (Apex ES, 3rd Grade and Blackwood group).  Students learned how to access Edmodo at home.

• Next time:  Edmodo access and registering with some students.  Creating an avatar with Pickaface avatar creator.

 

A/5 -- Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Roberts' Class --  Nature Works (Final Day) and Edmodo

Nature Works Final day Students will reflect on what they experienced during this group project through written expression.  Students will use a word processor to create a paragraph about what they experienced.  Some of the questions to ponder will include:

1. What would you do differently?
2. How did each person (including yourself) in your group contribute?
3. What worked well or not so well during this project?
4. What should Ms. Reid do differently?

Students joined Edmodo groups (Apex ES, 5th Grade and Roberts).  

• Next Time:   Join Mrs. Hilgers' SS group. Creating Avatar using PickAFace.  

Stangler's Class --  "NC County" Project (Day 6)

Students continued working with their partner or by themselves to create their PowerPoint, save slides as jpegs, upload to VoiceThread and add their voiceovers.

•  Next Time:  Students will continue to work on NC County Project and then NC County Voicethreads.

Little's Class -- Practicing Basis Word Processing Skills (Day 2)
Reviewed centering, applying bold and italics, color, font, size and underlining. Students candy bar story file from the shared drive.  Saved candy bar story to their home directory.  Follow written directions to format O'Henry story.Studens who finished formatting choose a good choice from the "Good Choice" folder on the shared drive.

• Next time:  Edmodo access and registering

D/4 -- Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Bolebruch's Class --  Edmodo -- Joining Groups
Students joined 3 groups (Apex ES group, 5th grade group and their homeroom group).  Students briefly learned how to create an avatar while using Pickaface.net.

•  Next Time: Creating an avatar with  Pickaface.net

Lee's Class --  "NC County" Project (Day 5)

Students learned how to add the URL's for their sources to their PowerPoint slides.  Students learned how to save their PowerPoint slides as jpegs for their NC County Project  Students learned how to import their jpegs into a new Voicethread.  Students continued working with their partner or by themselves to collect info about their assigned county for this project as well as creating their PowerPoint.

•  Next Time:  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Barefoot's Class --  Practicing Basis Word Processing Skills (Day 1)
Students learned about the good choices (Making Connections, Uncle Fred How to Draw and Code Cracker).  Reviewed centering, applying bold and italics, color, font, size and underlining. Students opened their candy bar story from their home directory and continued to follow written directions to format O'Henry story.

• Next time:  Edmodo access and registering

C/3 -- Monday, November 4, 2013

Monroe's Class --  Edmodo (Joining groups)
Demo'ed how to create an avatar using Pickaface.net. Students created an avatar that represents themselves.  Students changed their Edmodo avatar to their new pickaface avatar, if they choose.

•  Next Time:  Adding new avatar to Voicethread.  Catch up day.  Practicing keyboarding.

Veeder's Class --  "NC County" Project (Day 5)

Students continued working with their partner or by themselves to collect info about their assigned county for this project, working on their PowerPoint or their VoiceThread.

•  Next Time:  .NC County Project  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Nixon' Class -- Formatting Skills with O'Henry (Day 1)

Reviewed centering, applying bold and italics, color, font, size and underlining. Students candy bar story file from the shared drive.  Saved candy bar story to their home directory.  Follow written directions to format O'Henry story.

• Next time:  Edmodo access and registering

B/2 -- Friday, November 1, 2013

Hilgers' Class --  Avatar
Reviewed how to create an avatar using Pickaface.net. Students saved avatar to their home directory and uploaded it to Edmodo if they chose to update their avatar.

•  Next Time:  McDonald's vs Burger King Graphing... Join Mrs. Hilgers' group for SS

Hale's Class --  "NC County" Project (Day 5)

Students continued working with their partner or by themselves to collect info about their assigned county for this project.  Students, who had previously started creating their PowerPoint, continued to work on their PowerPoint.  When the other students finished collecting all of the need info, they started creating their NC County PowerPoints. Students learned how to add the URL's for their sources to their PowerPoint slides.  Students learned how to save their PowerPoint slides as jpegs.NC County Project 

•  Next Time:  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Reynolds' Class --  Practicing Basis Word Processing Skills (Day 2)
Reviewed centering, applying bold and italics, color, font, size and underlining. Students opened their candy bar story file from their home directory.  Students followed written directions to format O'Henry story.

• Next time:  Edmodo access and registering