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Enemy Pie-Retelling
Students in Jade Koch's 3rd grade classroom at McKinley School developed their retelling skills by listening to the story Enemy Pie online at Tumblebooks.com. As a class they colloborated to…Continue
Tags: iPad, Retelling, LanguageArts, Celebration2012
Started Mar 29
Verbs in Action
Students in LouAnna Koochel's 3rd grade classroom were introduced to action verbs in our English unit. Students listened to the “Verbs” song on “Grammar Jammers” app and they learned a verb rap that…Continue
Tags: iPads, verbs, LanguageArts, Celebration2012
Started Mar 29
What might a leprechaun use a kettle for?
The students in Jamie Linenberger's 3rd grade classroom started their lesson with the question, “What might a leprechaun use a kettle for?” After researching images of kettles, students …Continue
Tags: iPads, WordChoice, LanguageArts, Celebration2012
Started Mar 29
Real World money problems using the Story Kit app
The students in Christine Scherbring's 3rd grade classroom at McKinley were divided into groups. Each group was provided with a sample word problem posted in Edmodo. The groups then discussed how to…Continue
Tags: iPads, Money, Math, 2012, Celebration
Started Mar 29
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Kim Funston posted a discussionCreating Short Stories in Puppet Pals
Students in the 3rd grade classroom of Kim Funston at McKinley Elementary in Abilene were given words in isolation. Students predicted the meaning of those words using the sticky app on the iPad. One word was put on each sticky not prior to seeing the words in the passage. Students then listened to the story and used picture clues and context clues to evaluate their meaning of the word in the context of the story and made appropriate alterations to the stickies. Students and teacher…See More
Amber Rowland left a comment for Kim Funston"Yeah Kim!! http://www.abilene-rc.com/view/full_story/15889512/article-How-%E2%80%98bout-them-Apples%C2%AE-?instance=latest_articles ; This is wonderful news!!"
Kim Funston replied to Amber Rowland's discussion iPad/iPod/Android App Sharing"We have a number of great apps that we are using for our iPads. Strip Design, Story Buddy, Idea sketch to name a few are outstanding to use for all content area. Our team of 3rd grade teachers have spent a great deal of time researching…"
Amber Rowland left a comment for Kim Funston"Hi Kim! Yes, you have joined the Ph 9 Facilitator group correctly! Have you joined the Ph 9 group? http://www.kansastrc.org/group/trcphase92011 ;
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- At 7:08pm on May 23, 2011, Amber Rowland said…
Welcome to the TRC Ning Kim!
- At 1:32pm on July 18, 2011, Amber Rowland said…
Hi Kim! Yes, you have joined the Ph 9 Facilitator group correctly! Have you joined the Ph 9 group? http://www.kansastrc.org/group/trcphase92011
Thanks so much!
- At 2:26pm on August 1, 2011,
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- At 2:21pm on October 5, 2011, Amber Rowland said…
- Yeah Kim!! http://www.abilene-rc.com/view/full_story/15889512/article-How-%E2%80%98bout-them-Apples%C2%AE-?instance=latest_articles This is wonderful news!!
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