Veggie Man
Check out this voicethread made by Jen S. in Mrs. Roberts’ Class.
Healthy Hylanders
Our student council is sponsoring a door decorating contest for wellness month. Watch this voicethread to learn more!
Gingerbread Men
If you’ve walked around our school lately you will see little gingerbread boys and girls hung up and down the hallways. Sponsored and maintained by our Student Council, the gingerbread are festive with sparkles and glitter, sporty with football and basketball jerseys, and yummy with bits of candy. Our fifth and fourth graders in Student Council have snapped some photos for a BubbleShare. Enjoy the show!
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School Projects, Web 2.0 tools | Comment (0)Poll of the Week
Each week I am posting a poll for our students, staff and parents to answer. According to last week’s poll, 50% believe they will keep their New Year’s Resolution all year long! I love a positive outlook. All the more power to you!
I just posted next week’s poll question. So go the the Pashley Website and scroll down to let us know how you feel about an author/illustrator visit to Pashely. If you have a poll question to suggest, let me know by clicking on the Comment link below.
Hatchet VoiceThread
Mrs. Eddy’s class has just finished their first VoiceThread for the Newbery Honor book, Hatchet. This survival book by Gary Paulsen is perfect for library research. Each student was randomly assigned a research topic that related to the book. They used the World Book Encylcopedia, Searchasaurus, links on the library webpage and Google SafeSearch to find information about their topic. Students learned to ignore irrelevant information and to narrow their focus to what a boy would need to know about their topic to survive in the Canadian wilderness. After typing their scripts in Word they logged into KidPix to create an avatar for their voice narration. Bit by bit in small groups they visited the library office to record their narrations. I hope you enjoy their show. They worked hard at a busy time of the year.
Mrs. Neddo
ELA Test with VoiceThread
Our fourth graders have been busy creating VoiceThread, too. As they practiced for the ELA test, their teacher borrowed the camera from the computer lab and snapped some photos. After Mrs. Civiok downloaded the pictures for us, we uploaded them to our VoiceThread. The students then visited the library numerous times throughout the week to record their voice narrating a few lines from a play about what to do and not to do during the ELA test. They were so surprised to here their voices! We had a great time creating our avatars and getting our voices to sound just right.
Leaf Man, Leaf Man
Second graders have created Pashley’s first VoiceThread. After reading Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert with their teacher they hiked the woods in search of leaves and other pieces of nature. Inspired by Lois Ehlert’s artwork second graders created leaf people or leaf art with tape and glue. Their teacher and I are always looking for new experiences for the students and decided to make a VoiceThread with their art. Since the students were continuing a social studies unit about community we drafted a simple fill in the blank script for students to write and narrate about a place the leaf man might visit in our community.
Mini Movies
Someone else was sitting in my cushy chair today in my office and I didn’t mind a bit. Three fifth graders had come in early to make mini movies with Camtasia software. They hopped into the chair and started recording their voices and mouse movements around 5 Del’s Blog. They are teaching their class all the tips and tricks to jazz up their weblogs. Making these movie is no easy task. Most adults take a six week course to learn how to use Camtasia. Yes, I did help them and we did delete the first few we made, but I appauld them for making the effort to try something new. Can you remember the first time you heard your voice and wondered, “Is that me??” Check out our weblog and our first video and let us know what you think.
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