Constitution Day 2016

We are excited to celebrate Constitution Day in the Library today!

After this introduction students logged-in to their Google Classroom space.

To view the lessons shared visit:

https://sites.google.com/a/lcps.k12.va.us/downeyslearningcafe/constitutionday  

Happy Constitution Day!

Mrs. Chaney and Mrs Downey

Welcome Back Kindergarten!

We are so excited to welcome a new group of amazing Kindergartners to TES!  

For our FIRST Friday Focus class we are going to 

review Computer Care with our new cart of laptops!

Practice TouchPad Mouse Skills

Digital Canvas: Paint the Story

Focus Friday brought a new group of Kindergarteners into the Library for some touchpad/mouse skills.  Learning to navigate a mouse on a laptop can be tricky for little ones and learning to "paint" was challenging but a great success!  We cannot wait to practice our mouse skills some more next week!

I really like this version because it is animated with images 

that the kids can "paint" on ABCya.

After the Video Story students visited ABCya Paint

to create their own scene from Jack and the Beanstalk!

What fun! Check out our creations! 

 

Second Grade PowToons!

Our second graders added the app PowToon Edu to their Google Drives this week and created presentations about the Life Cycle of a Deer!  They all did an awesome job navigating this digital resource!

Some students even added their own recordings!

Editors at work!

Check out their work - WOW these are 2nd Graders!!!
Life Cycle of a Deer
Life Cycle of a Deer with Recorded Audio

Block City and Moby Max in Kindergarten

Today Kindergarten....

 ...revisits the library to day to trade colored block cards from last week and build each other's pattern and then a city!

We are reading:

Block City by Robert Louisa Stevens
Read the Poem ...but we encourage you to buy the book!

Check out this blogger mom for a cool block mural idea!

If you do not have the book yet...the video below is a great replacement!

Also students will be visiting their Classroom Moby Max site 

set up by their rockstar teacher, Mrs. Jenkins!

I LOVE TO COLOR

Today Students Will....

• COMPARE
• COLOR
• CREATE

Do you remember the Sesame Street Episode about crayons?  Circa 1980?  It was a personal favorite! Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood visited a Crayola Factory in 1981 in the video below and then Crayola launched an updated video below.

1.   Read:    A Day With No Crayons by: Elizabeth Rusch

2.   View and Compare:  THEN and NOW.

Crayola Factory .....THEN

Crayola Factory....NOW

3.  CREATE a PATTERN:  Using these Free Duplo Pattern Template Coloring Sheets


4.  BUILD  their pattern, or a partners, using the blocks provided.

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.