Dr. Seuss Goes Digital!

We are excited to prepare to celebrate 

Read Across America and Dr. Seuss Day 2016!
  

K-2 will explore http://www.seussville.com/   (requires flash - takes long to load but worth it if you can get it to load)

Random House Interactives

Brain Pop Jr. - Dr. Seuss

 

 3-5 will visit their Google Classroom Space to 

Pick a quote from quotesgram.com on the left.

What does this quote mean to you and how does it inspire you or others? 

Students will explain in a Google Doc or Slide created in Google Classroom and submit to their teacher.  

Unplugged Friday

What do you do when all of your computer carts are signed out?  You unplug and become Lego Engineers!  

First we learned about the history of  Lego with this video...

This is a GREAT video but at 10:10 MUTE IT...a character says "damn"....

totally confused why this would be in a kids video!!  

Thanks to a FREE printable from Lalymom's Blog each K-3 student got a Challenge Card.   The file even comes with blank cards to so inspiring engineers can create their own challenge for a classmate!

Build Something With A C.....these girls built a College!!!

Watch the magic when kids get to CREATE at school!  

When Kindergarten came in we skipped the long Lego History 

above and discussed the Power of Yet!  

Trying something new means you might not get it on the first try.  

This video was a great kick off for a new challenge! 

Focus Friday 2/5/16

 TES celebrated the 100th Day of School this week!

Kindergarten and First Grade students will explore these digtial learning resources starting with an eBook during Library Read to Me time!  Students may continue learning at home with the link below!

http://www.crazy4computers.net/the-100th-day-of-school.html

Welcome!

Welcome to the redesigned TES Tech Effect where students and faculty will be highlighted for their participation in  Digital Learning at Trevilians Elementary School!!  Mrs. Downey, Instructional Technology Specialist and Mrs. Chaney, Library Media Specialist will post activites from our weekly Focus Fridays in the Library!  Join in on the digital learning fun!

Focus Friday in the Media Center

One of my favorite things to do is co-teach!  Our Media Specialist, Mrs. Chaney, offers this opportunity as often as possible!  Getting right back into the groove of things in 2016 the first Focus Friday in the Media Center brought digital learning FUN!!

  

Mrs. Chaney read aloud to Kindergarten and First Grade students about seasonal weather and dress before students practices their VA Technology SOLs using laptops to practice using the touchpad, mouse, and drag and drop skills during a Dress for Winter or Winter Animals interactive screen.   (find the links on our Special Events Page)

Order Me on Scholastic

Students in 4th and 5th grade were inspired by poetry by Jack Prelutsky and then created their own Winter Poems using a Winter Magnetic Poetry lesson created by Kasey Bell of ShakeUpLearning.com.  

Mrs. Chaney saved a copy of this file and passed it out to students through Google Classroom so each student had their own file.  Stay tuned for a finished product slide show of our poems! 

Winter Magnetic Poetry in Google Slides!

Google Classroom...Google Slides...First Grade

The first grade team continued introducing their students to digital learning when they typed letters to Santa in a Google Slides template "passed out" through Google Classroom.



Students logged-in to laptop computers as well as iPads using the Google Classroom and Google Slides Apps.









Our wish is to one day be 1:1 with iPads so students can personalize the use of the apps and not have to log-in and log-out of their learning resources.

 In the meantime, they are rocking their Virginia Technology  SOLs and truely participating in 21st Century Learning!

2015 Hour of Code

The week of December 7-11th is becoming one of our favorite weeks at Trevilians Elementary! Computer Science Education Week brings us the Hour of Code event sponsored by Code.org



Please visit our Go Digital News for K-5 Parents page about Hour of Code activities to continue at home!

Students in Pk-5 all had a wonderful time experiencing Computer Programming and we would like to thank TES Parents: Mrs. Cindy Lewis - LCHS Technology Student Association Robotics Coach and Mr. Terry Dwyer - Manager, Software Development at S&P Capital IQ and SNL