Interesting Sites
Are you bored? Then you should check out these cool websites...
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Some of my favoritesHere are some of my favorite tools/websites to use for class and for my personal use...
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Fun things to do this summer |
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Science Powtoon (G5)The students used Powtoon to explain the scientific process of "Separating a Dry Mixture" Click here to see all the fifth grade Powtoons. Here's one that Nia made:
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Congrats for passing the keyboarding testThird Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
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Useful Links
Grymes Computer Club (On hiatus)
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Book Reviews (G1)
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The first grade did these great book reviews. Just in time for summer reading. Mrs. Huelskoetter did a lesson on book reviews in library and Mrs. Dixon talked to the students as well. We were in a rush and didn't have time to pre-write their book reviews. I thought the kids did a great job considering we were winging it. Take a look at Landon's on the right. Click here to see all the book reviews.
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Happy Mother's Day from the First Grade! |
Famous People (G1)We used Chatterpix on the iPads to create these talking photo videos. Mason shares some interesting facts about Abraham Lincoln. Click here to see all the videos.
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Educational PowerPoint Games (G4)The fourth grade made educational PowerPoint games for others to play. Here's one by Callie Adams called "Guess the Shape". Click here to see all the games.
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How to Separate a Dry Mixture (G5)The fifth grade used Powtoon to describe a science experiment on how to separate a dry mixture. Here's one that Nia made.
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Travel Into History (G5)
By Ronan
I was at my desk, programming, when I needed symbols for a medieval game. It was very hard, but I had found a string of Greek letters I liked. I was about to save it when I noticed something very odd. The picture was not a website, and it had no data or even a url. I thought about this, but I tried importing the picture anyway. It worked, and I ran the program, but the program instantly crashed,my screen went black, and the computer started shaking. I decided not to tell my parents just for now. But I was really scared when a purple fog began billowing from the screen. It spiraled and expanded, and then formed a picture of space in the center. Was it a portal? Was it an anomaly? Was I going crazy? All of these questions were unanswered, and I was utterly clueless.
First, I wanted to know where it led. Was it in space? Was it an alternate universe? Should I tell scientists? I was very curious, but I knew I had to remain cautious if I was going to enter the portal. First, I put my head through, and I could not believe what I had seen.Spears were in the muddy dirt, the shafts splintered. Then I noticed bodies littering the ground. I was in an ancient war zone, but what time period was I in? I stepped back out of the portal, then, I put a leg and my head in. That was when my mind was blown. I had a toga on. A toga! Was I in Greece, Rome, Macedonia, or some other country? But that was when I heard a sound like a thousand freight trains stopping. A mighty roar came from in front of me. It was a huge army, charging. It looked like they had giant hair on their helmets when I realized that they were holding a weapon I had seen before. It was even in my game! They were holding eighteen-foot spears. Then, I noticed a crossbow shaped weapon that some held level to their stomach. It was a belly-shooter! I finally noticed a row of super weapon like catapults. They were torsion catapults, the most powerful in all of Greece. I finally noticed the opposing army. It was Athens!
I knew that this army was not Spartan, no, definitely not. I felt sick when I realized I was in one of the most dangerous war-zones of all Ancient Greece! It was the fight between King Philip II of Macedonia and Athens. The smell of decay and stink came over me. Those ancient armies didn’t know about bacteria, or even personal hygiene. Then, I heard a mighty rumbling. King Philip’s army charged, and the spears were so long that the Athenians looked like babies trying to reach something behind a wall. They stumbled, then tried to move forward. All of it was unsuccessful. As if the situation wasn’t already dangerous enough, I heard a sound like a huge string being pulled. They were aiming their belly-shooters. I ran and took cover in the dense forest around me, and just in time, too. Arrows made a path behind me, looking like a fence for ants. By now I felt like I was a dead man, but to decrease my chances of surviving, the portal closed! The situation was so bad I thought it couldn’t get any worse. Yet again, I was wrong. A huge sound boomed throughout the land. The soldiers charged as the archers used their belly-shooters to shoot Athenians. Then the sound came. The torsion catapults were loaded with boulders, and they were still life-threatening today. They fired, a sound like a military airstrike would be in movies. There was a whistling sound, but then a series of booming sounds. Dirt shot up like a geyser, and Athenians lay dead. It was a terrible sight. But they were right, the Macedonians were uncivilized. They charged on, and I looked away as they kept going. I felt like I had no choice. I followed them. They were now besieging a kingdom called Byzantium. I remembered this from my history book. The Athenians violated a peace treaty and tried to ally with Byzantium to stop King Philip. They still lost, which was no surprise. There was only one country who never surrendered to him, and that was Sparta. But here and now I was in one of the most decisive battles in Greek history. The battle of Chaeronea.
The belly-shooters made the sound again, and they fired. I was scared out of my mind, even frozen in terror when an arrow came at me. This is the end, I thought. But the arrow passed through me and thudded in the ground behind me. Of course! I thought. I was a paradox and non-existent in this time period. I could discover anything. I could to almost anything. I was invulnerable in this time period. I realized what I could do in my time if I discovered the secrets of the Battle of Chaeronea. I could be a great, temporarily immortal historian with access to all of the wonders of the world. I could do anything and make current society benefit from it. But I had to get back home. I compromised as I went up-close and personal with the fight seeing every last detail, noticing how the ancient weapons of war worked. I saw everything for real, not a reenactment or computer generation. I enjoyed seeing this, but I had to get home. After the battle, I saw something terrible, the king was assassinated. I then wandered off, for about four thousand years. I spent my time studying physics and engineering things in my mind. I was almost all-knowing because of my time I spent learning. And I had unraveled the greatest mystery of all, how I got here. The D-flip-flops had accidentally shifted position, forming a special kind of particle accelerator and creating an element that could transport one and replay reality and all of history. I had to build a new kind of particle accelerator, the permanent accelerator, creating a portal I could use all of the time. Once I had made the portal, I used it to travel back home, and not a half-second had passed. I was ecstatic. Now I knew almost every fact ever known by any human. And I wanted humanity to flourish forever.
Time for another adventure.
First, I wanted to know where it led. Was it in space? Was it an alternate universe? Should I tell scientists? I was very curious, but I knew I had to remain cautious if I was going to enter the portal. First, I put my head through, and I could not believe what I had seen.Spears were in the muddy dirt, the shafts splintered. Then I noticed bodies littering the ground. I was in an ancient war zone, but what time period was I in? I stepped back out of the portal, then, I put a leg and my head in. That was when my mind was blown. I had a toga on. A toga! Was I in Greece, Rome, Macedonia, or some other country? But that was when I heard a sound like a thousand freight trains stopping. A mighty roar came from in front of me. It was a huge army, charging. It looked like they had giant hair on their helmets when I realized that they were holding a weapon I had seen before. It was even in my game! They were holding eighteen-foot spears. Then, I noticed a crossbow shaped weapon that some held level to their stomach. It was a belly-shooter! I finally noticed a row of super weapon like catapults. They were torsion catapults, the most powerful in all of Greece. I finally noticed the opposing army. It was Athens!
I knew that this army was not Spartan, no, definitely not. I felt sick when I realized I was in one of the most dangerous war-zones of all Ancient Greece! It was the fight between King Philip II of Macedonia and Athens. The smell of decay and stink came over me. Those ancient armies didn’t know about bacteria, or even personal hygiene. Then, I heard a mighty rumbling. King Philip’s army charged, and the spears were so long that the Athenians looked like babies trying to reach something behind a wall. They stumbled, then tried to move forward. All of it was unsuccessful. As if the situation wasn’t already dangerous enough, I heard a sound like a huge string being pulled. They were aiming their belly-shooters. I ran and took cover in the dense forest around me, and just in time, too. Arrows made a path behind me, looking like a fence for ants. By now I felt like I was a dead man, but to decrease my chances of surviving, the portal closed! The situation was so bad I thought it couldn’t get any worse. Yet again, I was wrong. A huge sound boomed throughout the land. The soldiers charged as the archers used their belly-shooters to shoot Athenians. Then the sound came. The torsion catapults were loaded with boulders, and they were still life-threatening today. They fired, a sound like a military airstrike would be in movies. There was a whistling sound, but then a series of booming sounds. Dirt shot up like a geyser, and Athenians lay dead. It was a terrible sight. But they were right, the Macedonians were uncivilized. They charged on, and I looked away as they kept going. I felt like I had no choice. I followed them. They were now besieging a kingdom called Byzantium. I remembered this from my history book. The Athenians violated a peace treaty and tried to ally with Byzantium to stop King Philip. They still lost, which was no surprise. There was only one country who never surrendered to him, and that was Sparta. But here and now I was in one of the most decisive battles in Greek history. The battle of Chaeronea.
The belly-shooters made the sound again, and they fired. I was scared out of my mind, even frozen in terror when an arrow came at me. This is the end, I thought. But the arrow passed through me and thudded in the ground behind me. Of course! I thought. I was a paradox and non-existent in this time period. I could discover anything. I could to almost anything. I was invulnerable in this time period. I realized what I could do in my time if I discovered the secrets of the Battle of Chaeronea. I could be a great, temporarily immortal historian with access to all of the wonders of the world. I could do anything and make current society benefit from it. But I had to get back home. I compromised as I went up-close and personal with the fight seeing every last detail, noticing how the ancient weapons of war worked. I saw everything for real, not a reenactment or computer generation. I enjoyed seeing this, but I had to get home. After the battle, I saw something terrible, the king was assassinated. I then wandered off, for about four thousand years. I spent my time studying physics and engineering things in my mind. I was almost all-knowing because of my time I spent learning. And I had unraveled the greatest mystery of all, how I got here. The D-flip-flops had accidentally shifted position, forming a special kind of particle accelerator and creating an element that could transport one and replay reality and all of history. I had to build a new kind of particle accelerator, the permanent accelerator, creating a portal I could use all of the time. Once I had made the portal, I used it to travel back home, and not a half-second had passed. I was ecstatic. Now I knew almost every fact ever known by any human. And I wanted humanity to flourish forever.
Time for another adventure.
Greek Times Book Reviews (G5)Mrs. Wagner did this book review project in language arts class that supports what the students are learning in history. In this project the students learned how to use a template and columns in PowerPoint. The students also used Paint.net and their knowledge of Chroma Key to create the photo. Here's a book review written by Grace on Rick Riordan's Last Olympian:
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iSpy Virginia (G3)The students used Microsoft PowerPoint to create fun iSpy books about different regions in Virginia. Click on the "Start" button to begin. The pictures you are searching for are on the left hands side. Find them on the right hand side and click on them. You'll be rewarded with some fun facts. Click on the iSpy Button to get back to the picture page. Here is Carys' iSpy Book about the Valley and Ridge. Click here to see all the iSpy books.
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Chroma Key Photos (G5)The fifth grade learned about chroma keying, the process of editing out the background of a photo or video which uses a single color background and then superimposing it together with another. Here's one that Ben created using Paint.net. Click here to see all the photos.
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Appalachian Trail Newscasts (G4)The fourth grade created newscasts on different parts of the Appalachian Trail. We video taped them in front of a green screen and then used the Chroma Key feature of iMovie to replace the background. Here's one by Landon on High Point State Park in NJ. Click here to see all the videos.
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Videolicious (G5)With the help of Mrs. Hallum, the 5th grade made videos in social studies using Videolicious. Here's Part 1 of Nia's video on Pericles. Click here to see all the videos.
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Happy Valentine's Day (G3)The third grade used PicMonkey to make Valentine's Day photos for their families and adopted grandparent at Dogwood Village. Here's one of Caroline. Click here to see all the photos.
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Pivot Animator (G3)The 3rd graders made Pivot animations. Here's one Harper created:
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Will the real Martin Luther King Jr. please stand up - 3rd Grade Play
You are invited to attend the third grade play on Monday, January 19th at 8:30a. The students made posters for the play. Click here to see all the posters.
Carys
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David
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Merry Christmas from the First Grade!Click below to see one of the Storybot videos the first grade made. Click here to see all of them.
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A Salute to Veterans (G1)Mrs. Dixon's first grade class pays tribute to veterans at the school wide assembly. Enjoy!
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Multiply with PowerPoint (G4)Students will demonstrate what they know about multiplication by doing a Microsoft PowerPoint project. In this activity students learn how to group, copy, and paste.
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Vocabulary Comics (G3 Vocab)The 3rd grade used vocabulary words and Make Belief Comix to create comic strips. Take a look at Parker's:
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PowerPoint Layers (G3)Students learned how layers work in Microsoft PowerPoint and how to move objects forward and to the front and backward and to the back. Here's a fact that Dylan made:
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Vocabulary PowerPoint (G3)The 3rd grade used Microsoft PowerPoint to demonstrate their understanding of their vocabulary words. They learned how to pick a template, add text, and add clip art. Click here to see the entire class' work. Take a look at Erik's:
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Haiku Deck Vocab (G3)The 3rd grade used a web app called Haiku Deck to make presentations of their vocabulary words. Here is Lauren's:
Lauren - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires |
Word Wall Words Explained (G1)We have started something called iPad Mondays in the first grade. We used an app called Explain Everything to demonstrate our understanding of this week's Word Wall Words. Each student made up a sentence using one of the words. Take a look at how creative they were. Click here to see all the videos.
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iFake Text Msgs Vocabulary (G3)The third grade class used a web app in language arts class called iFakeText to practice using their vocabulary words.
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Meet the 4th Grade (G4)The fourth grade used a fun little app called Spell with Flickr to create nameplates. This app takes photos of letters from flickr to spell what you've typed in.
Meet the Third Grade (G3)The third grade used a fun little app called Spell with Flickr to create nameplates. This app takes photos of letters from flickr to spell what you've typed in.
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Bill Gates took the ice bucket challenge to raise awareness for Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS). He accepted Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge and nominated Elon Musk, Ryan Seacrest and Chris Anderson from TED to participate.
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Here's information about ALS (also known as Loe Gehrig's Disease):
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Office 365 Free to Students and Teachers!
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