Thanksgiving Word Clouds by First Graders

Hats off to the awesome First Grade Team of teachers for introducing their students to Google Classroom!  Using this digital interface, students were able to login to one place to receive and turn in  assignments.

Teachers "passed out" the link to ABCya's Word Cloud in an Assignment Post.  Students
1. OPENED the link
2. TYPED in Thanksgiving words
3. CREATED the word cloud by clicking the "play button"
4. SAVED their word cloud as a jpeg to the desktop
5. UPLOADED their jpeg file to their assigment in Google Classroom
6. Turned In their work

No Paper....All Digital....Yes they are First Graders....Yes they are 6 years old!!!

#digitalnatives  #learningin2015 #makeithappenTES

We Did It!!

Google Slideshows of student word clouds turned-in to teachers are in the works! 

Stay Tuned! Great Job 1st Grade!!

First Grade Goes Google!

It's so easy...even a 1st grader can do it!!

When the TES team of First Grade teachers go together on the Staff Development day earlier this month, they explored the Virginia SOLs for Computer Technology an began developing lessons which incorporated these skills important to our digital natives!  Students have to type a rather long username which is no small feat for first graders, but it will stick with them through their senior year at LCHS!  

The First Grade team of teachers are also utilizing Google Classroom as a way for students to complete assignements and submit created digital work.  Our first big project is creating a Thanksgiving Wordle coming up next week :) 

Way to #makeithappenTES first grade team!!