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Archived
Stories of PEC Participants and Winners
March
2007
| Heather
Knight |
Mrs.
Knight's literacy students have been hard at work.
The students were asked to read a biography on a
famous person they were interested in. Then they
did a book report on that person and eventually
created a timeline on the computer. The students
were asked to research specific events and did an
impressive job. |
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| Mary
Jo Sarff* |
Mrs.
Sarff's intern, Miss Prentice, has began a pen-pal
relationship with the Hopi tribe in Arizona. The
students are learning the proper way to draft letters
as well as learning new information about the Hopi
American Indians. The students will be corresponding
with the Hopi fourth grade class until the end of
the year. |
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| Morgan
Belcher** |
First
Grade students from Miss Belcher’s literacy
group read the non-fiction book “Extreme Animals”.
The students worked with a partner to research their
favorite animal from the book. The students used
Yahooligans.com to find out more animal fun facts!
After their research and hard work, the students
created power points. |
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| Lori
McCoy |
Mrs.
McCoy's class recently finished a unit on Egypt.
The students made pyramids, their own languages,
flags, completed internet activities, and used the
word processor to make a test. The students that
receive an "A" on their test will have
the opportunity to wrap Mrs. McCoy up like a mummy.
They are so excited! |
February
2007
| Brandi
Bailey* |
Mrs.
Bailey's first graders are learning why it is important
to be a good friend. After filling out a planner
on the important characteristics it takes to be
a good friend we turned our ideas into a power point.
The students had so much fun working in partners
to create their friendship powerpoint books. |
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| Christine
Gardner |
In
Ms. Gardner's Class, students used Microsoft Publisher
for the first time to create their own book covers.
The covers will be used for their Young Author's
Books. The students typed their own titles, information
facts, and inserted clip art. |
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| Robyn
Peffer |
Mrs.
Peffer's first graders are learning about penguins.
They really enjoyed the internet site of penguin
jigsaw puzzles. This is a favorite indoor recess
activity. Also, they liked the site that had a sound
clip of penguins "talking". |
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Tanya
Swearingen**
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Ms.
Swearingen's class is writing stories based on the
pictures and captions from the book The Mysteries
of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg. The class
will publish the stories by using my new scanner
to incorporate pictures from the book and Microsoft
Word to type the text. |
January
2007
| Nancy
Thompson** |
Mrs.
Thompson's students are using plays and reader's
theater scripts to increase fluency and reading
with expression. Students performed "Hattie
and the Fox" for the kindergarten students.
To learn more about foxes, students used several
internet sites. |
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| Carrie
Anderson |
Mrs.
Anderson's kindergarten and 1st grade groups at
Starke use power point slide shows to learn their
sight words. The students then put the sight words
into sentences and insert a new slide into the show
each time it is used. |
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| Tanya
Swearingen* |
The
students in Mrs. Swearingen's class researched an
endangered animal and created power points to share
with the class. The students not only learned about
different animals endangered throughout the world,
but how to use Microsoft power point as well. |
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| Jeannie
Hudson |
Mrs. Hudson's First Graders and Mrs. Roger's Kindergarten
children and their parents enjoyed a cold winter's
afternoon building gingerbread houses together at
school just before the holidays. |
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| Christine
Gardner |
The
students in Ms. Gardner’s 2nd grade class
are each writing a biography on a different president
for their Young Authors story. The students used
Yahooligans to find kid friendly sites they could
read to do their research. They are looking for
information about their birth, childhood, presidency,
and when the passed away. |
December
2006
| Nancy
Thompson |
Students in Mrs. Thompson's class are learning about
reindeer. As an introduction, the class used an
internet site. The site had many fun facts about
reindeers. When the students were finished reading
up on reindeers, students then could take a quiz
to see how much they learned. |
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| Kristy
Estes |
The
students in Mrs. Estes' class had a celebration
called a Sharing Feast for their parents and teachers.
The students wanted to thank all the people in their
lives who support them. Parents were treated to
a full Thanksgiving meal and skits produced by students.
A fun time was had by all! |
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Victoria Timko* |
Ms.
Timko's 8th grade science classes have been performing
experiments using the scientific method. They just
finished one experiment exploring how different
variables make balloon rockets travel at different
speeds. Students then produce reports using MS Word
and MS Excel to create data tables and graphs. |
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Heather Knight |
Mrs.
Knight and Mrs. Stoner's Literacy Labs have grouped
together to create some wonderful plays. The main
goal for this unit was to increase students' fluency
and promote reading with expression. The students
used various websites from the Internet to research
Johnny Appleseed and do a mini webquest. |
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| Lori
McCoy** |
Mrs.
McCoy’s class recently completed an eight
week DARE program. The students enjoyed learning
how to say no to drugs. As a part of this program,
all students were required to write an essay stating
how they would stay drug free. All of the students
utilized computers to write their papers using
Microsoft Word.
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November 2006
| Morgan
Belcher* |
Students
in Miss Belcher's first grade literacy group learned
how to use PowerPoint. Three groups of students
read books and created a Who, What When, Where and
Why PowerPoint presentation related to their book.
The next day, the students presented their books
and power point to the rest of the literacy group! |
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| Jeannine
Hudson |
Students
in Mrs. Hudson's First Grade at Jefferson have been
learning about Bats and Spiders in October. They've
been reading lots of books, creating Venn diagrams
comparing bats and birds, and creating fact stories.
Thanks to United Streaming many of the facts they've
learned through books have come to life! |
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| Michael
Ritchason** |
Mr.
Ritchason's class recently read the story Dream
Wolf. To learn more about wolves the students utilized
an Internet site (http://www.wolf.org/wolves/
learn/justkids/kids_wolf_families.asp) to find
out facts and then used the information to create
booklets about the animals. |
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Nancy
Thompson
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Students
in Mrs. Thompson's first grade classroom are learning
about bats. We used this site www.nwf.org/batguide/batguide.pdf
to get info and it had some good activities
to do with students. We also used www.batcon.org/home/default.asp.
It had a video clip and an adopt-a-bat program along
with great pictures and info. |
October
2006
| Kami
Spatzek |
Students
in Mrs. Spatzek's class have just completed their
first five sentence paragraph about being "thumb-body"
special. They got the idea for the paragraph
from the book called "Thumbprint Critters."
After editing then publishing their paragraph on
Microsoft Word, their thumbs got busy as they decorated
their final copy. |
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| Jason
Fowler |
Students
in Mr. Fowler's 7B Math class have been learning
to add fractions and convert their answers to decimals
with a Fantasy Football Mathematics unit. Each student
started the season by picking a dream team and has
been able to cheer them on at home as the NFL season
progresses. Several BJHS faculty/staff are
playing too. |
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| Diedre
Wicker |
The
staffs of Broadmoor’s newspaper use a variety
of technology to produce the year's first issue
of the paper. Students are using Microsoft Publisher
to create pages for the school paper; taking digital
pictures and creating collage pages; and using the
scanner. |
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| Ruth
Whaley** |
Students
in Mrs. Whaley's class love Earobics! Earobics
is a software program that focuses on phonemic awareness
and phonics skills. It is a reading intervention
that is research-based. My students use the
software daily during reading/language arts centers. |
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| Lori
McCoy* |
My
class has been working on reading biographies for
their monthly A.R. goal. Instead of the old fashion
“book reports”, my students are making
PowerPoint’s to share their information.
The students are able to use their own creativity
and personal touches using the technology at Wilson
School. |
September
2006
| Andi
Cashman* |
Mrs.
Cashman's first grade students have been looking
high and low for creative examples of color. They
have been using a digital camera to take pictures
for our classroom book of color names. We will also
make a PowerPoint of the pictures to share with
other classes.
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| Amy
Lydic |
The
students in Miss Lydic's kindergarten class have
been reviewing colors and learning how to spell
them. They recently took a walk around the school
to look for colors. Each pair of students was assigned
one color to look for. A digital picture was taken.
The pictures were used to create a class powerpoint
about colors. |
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| Dierdre
Wicker** |
Students
in Mrs. Wicker's class practiced sentence structure
to improve variety and impact in their writing.
The Smart Board transformed this traditional lesson
into an energetic and interactive lesson. The students
were interested, attentive, and eager to participate! |
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| Kami
Spatzek |
Flip
flop flee! Students from Mrs. Spatzek’s Class
have been busy reviewing letters and sounds with
the help of the story “Chicka Chicka Boom
Boom.” First they read the story then they
played a powerpoint letter game. They also did art
activities, practiced sequencing, made a class book,
and even made their own edible tree. |
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