5th grade Washington, D.C. slideshows

The 5th graders went on their annual trip to Washington, D.C. in March and learned so much! Ms. Lord's class wrote narrative and non-fiction pieces about their experiences and I worked with them to turn their writing into a Google Slide presentation. First the students learned how to access their Durham Public Schools Googledocs account and then we learned how to create a slide presentation.

Below are a few of the students' presentations. Enjoy!

Manatee Weather News in K/1!

I had so much fun working with Mrs. Overby's K/1 class to create weather reports! This project was one of the culminating pieces to their weather unit in Science. Each group was assigned a season and had to write a weather report that reflected a typical day of weather during that season. The kids worked together to create a background and write the report. Some students brought in props to make the video as authentic as possible. We had fun pretending to be the weather reporters like we see on TV! :) Enjoy our live weather reports below! 

Kindergarten Community Helpers

Mrs. Reuther's Kindergarteners learned about community helpers before Spring Break. Some students researched with me in the Media Center and some students worked in the classroom. After reading about community helpers, students chose one as their favorite and wrote about how this person helps our community. I used the Educreations App on the iPad to record each student reading their own writing. Watch our Educreations slideshow below to hear all about our favorite community helpers!