Technology Update: Oyster Catchers

Today, in celebration of Thanksgiving and eating a lot, we fed the OmNom in riveting games of Cut the Rope! (It also helped our mousing skills and used our puzzle-solving skills.)

Technology Update: Surfing Penguins

Today the Surfing Penguins enjoyed activities on our brand new computers!

Tag Reader Time

Students in Ruth Ann's and Sharon's classes enjoyed reading with Tag Readers today!

Bat Detective

In honor of Halloween, several classes were able to do a special "citizen science" activity online during Technology Class.  Students learned about bats, listened to recordings of bats, and familiarized themselves with the project. Then they listened to recording data, categorizing it for use by the scientific community.

Students listened to the calls from Romania and the Transylvania region. Per the website: "Transylvania is a part of Romania, where the Romanian Bat Protection Association have been responsible for involving more than 100 volunteers in the collection of thousands of hours of acoustic recordings from microphones attached to cars driving over 50,000 km around some very bumpy roads! These data make up a large part of the calls in Bat Detective."

Do you want to try it? Visit http://www.batdetective.org to begin your own spooky journey.

Technology Notes: Surfing Penguins

Today lower elementary classes enjoyed activities to reinforce number sense and improve fine motor skills. We started with Dora's Number Pyramid Game, a game focused on putting numbers in order. Then students enjoyed the Blue's Clues Ghost Hunt, a game of hide-and-seek on the computer! What a fun and educational day!

Beautiful, Bedazzled Bots

Today was the first day of Beginning Robotics: Girls' Group. We built these rover style robots and decorated them. Here are some pictures.

Power Point lessons

This week, middle school students made their own slide shows about topics they wanted to share. They did a great job! Here's Katrina's class hard at work!