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Memory Books (G3)
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Happy Mother's Day!
Here's a Mother's Day Tribute created by the 2nd Grade. They wrote the lyrics and performed the song.
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Fifth Grader Creates "Helping Hands" Website (G5)
Click to access the Helping Hands website.
One of our very industrious 5th graders decided to create a website called Helping Hands. In her own words, she describes why she created it... "I've always felt bad having everything I need and knowing that there are some people that are not as lucky out there that needs my help. I soon decided I should make a website to help these people and make a difference in any way I can. There are easy ways to make a difference in your community and planet easily every day. From recycling to going on freerice.com for fifteen minutes a day." Please visit Helping Hands to see how you can make a difference!
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Bluebells for School Bells (G4)
Help the fourth grade raise money to give African school children clean water! Purchase your Virginia Bluebells for School Bells at the carpool line or at the front door. $10 for a 2 quart native perennial.
I bought mine two years ago and it's grown so well. I bought more this year! Take a look at the before and after photos: |
Kindergarten Community Service Project (K)
The Kindergarten class used Pixie to create posters for their community service project. Please click on the poster below to see all the posters:
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Malawi Magazine (G4)
The fourth grade class watched a series of Global Lives videos of Edith Kaphuka, a 13-year-old student in Malawi. They created the following magazine comparing their lives in the USA to hers:
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Technology in 1993 vs. 2013
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Travel Into History (G5)
The 5th grade used Paint.NET to superimpose themselves onto a picture of a famous historic site. They wrote an article about a fictitious field trip to accompany the photo. Click here to see all the Travel Into History projects.
Trees in Season (K)The Kindergarten class demonstrated their knowledge of the seasons by doing a Pixie activity called "Trees in Season". Click here to see all the drawings.
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Planet Trading Cards (G4)The fourth grade used a free app called Trading Card Creator from Read Write Think to create Planet Trading Cards. Here are a couple of examples:
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Bella Italia TripSeventeen 7th and 8th graders, Tyler Houston, Lee Berry, and LeeAnne Houston have embarked on their trip to Italy for Spring Break. Please click on the links below if you'd like to take a virtual trip with them.
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Life in Ancient Egypt (G1)The First Grade class created a story about life in ancient Egypt using an iPad app called My Story. Click on the image below and take a look:
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Blabberize Pandas (G2)The second grade is learning about China in social studies and pandas in science. They made these awesome Blabberize pandas in computer class. Click here to take a look at all the talking pandas and learn some cool facts.about pandas.
Maggie
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Grymes Pictures at an ExhibitionOne of my favorite things at Grymes is to walk down the hall and look at the students awesome artwork. Mrs. Houston always selects such interesting projects, many times supporting what the students are learning in the classroom. I randomly picked a few from each grade to share with you in this Animoto. Bravo to Mrs. Houston and all the kids. Enjoy!
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Check Out These Cool Scratch Projects
Reese's amazing video game - Click on the image below. Then press the Space Bar to start. The Crab follows the mouse pointer. You get a point when Crab gets Scardy Cat. You lose a point when Crab touches the side.
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Ally's awesome animation: Click on the image below. The ballerina follows the mouse pointer and does flips!
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Polar Animals
Happy Holidays!
Click on the image below to see all the first grade snowflake poems.
We will open the book. Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. Edith Lovejoy Pierce Click on the image below to see all the second grade snowflakes.
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Click on the image below to see all the third grade holiday images:
Click on the image below to see all the Kindergarten Christmas Traditions coloring pages:
Click on the image below to see all the second grade holiday images:
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Chroma Key PicturesThe 5th grade is learning how to use the chroma key and layer features of Paint.NET. Here are their super-cool superimposed photos.
Aaditya's Blog From India!Aaditya spent a month in India. Take a look at his blog and see what he did and learned on the trip.
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The Past Meets the Present - Jamestown Blogs (G3)The 3rd grade class created journals in writing class of fictitious people from Jamestown in the 1600s. They took the journals and turned them into "blogs". Click here to see all the blogs. Below is one entry from Nia's blog of a Powhatan Indian. Click on the image to read the rest of her blog.
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Storybird Vocabulary Story (G3)The
students had to use their vocabulary words to create a story using Storybird. Storybird is a free online application that makes writing, reading and sharing stories fun. Click here to read all the students' stories. Below is Alexa's story: |
Luray Caverns (G2)The Second Grade took a field trip to Luray Caverns. They used Pixie to draw a picture of their trip. In cass they wrote about it. Then recorded it as narration for their picture. Click here to see them all, as well as photos from their field trip.
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Western Europe Glogsters (G4)The fourth graders each selected a Western European Country in which to do research. They used the information to create online multimedia posters using Glogster. Click here to see all the posters.
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Shapes Game (G3)The third graders used Microsoft PowerPoint to create some Shapes Games for the Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten classes. Click here to see them all.
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Barack Obama Wins Re-election! |
Grymes Mock Election Results Mirrors Nation!Grymes Memorial School held mock elections this week. Students throughout the school learned about the electoral college and about the candidates. They registered to vote the week before, voted on Tuesday, November 6th, and even got an "I Voted" sticker to wear. Leading up to the big day, the school was a buzz with talk of the mock election. On Tuesday morning, Aidan in second grade announced to someone that he would be voting in the mock election that day. Intrigued, the person asked "Who will you be voting for?" Aidan said "Barack Obama". When asked "Why are you voting for him?" He confidently said "I like his foreign policy." Apparently, so did the nation. A big thanks goes out to Rod McLeod and Jill Solek-Giles for making the mock election a huge success. Here are the mock election results:
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Quilt Squares (G1)Take a look at the beautiful quilt squares the First Graders created using Investigations in Math Shapes software. Come back next week to see the one's from the other half of the class!
Meet the 1st GradeThe 3rd grade made name plates to put up in the Computer Lab. They used Spell with Flickr - a fun little tool that spells the word that you enter using Flickr images.
Meet the 2nd GradeMeet the 3rd GradeJust for Laughs...In Reader's Digest October 2012 under Humor they write "I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one." Andy Borowitz, on Twitter
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Jack-O-Lanterns (G2)The Second Graders carved pumpkins to match their Jack-o-Lantern poems that they wrote in class. They used a couple of fun, free, online apps. Click on the image below to see their pumpkins with their poems.
Word Cloud Word Study (G4)The students used Tagxedo to turn their Spelling Words into a word cloud. Click on the image to see the work from the entire class.
Word Cloud Word Study (G3)The students used Tagxedo to turn their Spelling Words into a word cloud. Click on the image to see the work from the entire class.
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