Student Showcase

Student created examples of select Technology projects.

TK | Kindergarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade | Sixth Grade

TK

Pumpkin Masks

Integration Opportunity: Holidays, fine motor skills

Technology Skills: Paint and fill tools

All About TK

This was a classroom project. As part of a begining of the year "getting to know you" activity, students took home a digital camera and took photographs of their house, family, and pets.

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Kindergarten

Lines and Fills

Technology Skills: introduce line and fill tools, text tool

Scary Count

Integration Opportunity: Holidays, counting, following directions

Technology Skills: introduce clicking and draging, resizing and rotating images, layers

Reading Podcasts

Integration Opportunity: Oral reading fluency, enunciation, emotion; Reading comprehension; Making predictions

Technology Skills: using illustrations for communication; paint tools; voice recording in Pixie

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Vowel Friends

Integration Opportunity: Language Arts, vowels, reading skills, oral speaking

Technology Skills: pencil, paint bucket, text, sound recording tools

In the late winter, our kindergarten students are introduced to vowel pairs. These vowel friends help each other out - "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." Here is a Pixie project our classroom teachers created to share with parents. Easy and fun!

First Grade

Monster Exchange

Through the online Monster Exchange project, each first grade class is paired with a partner class in another part of the world. For the past two years, we have had the pleasure of working with Year 1/2 students at Saglik ve Egitim Vakfi (Health and Education Foundation) Elementary School in Izmir, Turkey. The project begins with pairs students drawing a monster. Then students write descriptions on how to draw these monsters. The descriptions, without the pictures, are exchanged with our partner class. Students in the partner class then redrew the monsters using only the descriptions. (We do the same with their monsters, too!) Finished monsters are uploaded into an online gallery where viewers can read the detailed descriptions and view both the original and redrawn monsters.

Learn more about the Monster Exchange project: http://www.monsterexchange.org

View our 2009-2010 Monster Exchange:

Second Grade

Suitcase Stories

Integration Opportunity: Social Studies, Ancestors, narrative writing, oral speaking

Technology Skills: pencil, paint bucket, sound recording tools

Each fall, second grade students study about their ancestors. As a classroom writing assignment, students create "Suitcase Stories" describing where their ancestors are from, what heirlooms their ancestors brought when immigrating, and what they would bring if they were to travel to a distant country. To extend this project, students use Pixie to illustrate their stories. They then use their writing as a script, recording narration for each slide. These digital Suitcase Stories are then sent home over Thanksgiving break to be shared with family.

Third Grade

Doodle 4 Google

In 2009, our third grade students participated in the Doodle 4 Google competition. Here are a few of our entries:

Rock Our World

Third grade students have had the opportunity to participate in a global project called Rock Our World. Below are a few artifacts of our work.

Round 12: Walk Our World

Our International Song: Created by International Team A

Village School students created the original drum track, then international members of Team A added tracks each week. Our students completed the song by adding vocals during the final week.

Our Rock Our World/Walk Our World shoe design	And, to advertise our “Perfect Shoe for Life,” we created this commercial:

The Rock Our World 12 Family Night broadcast

Village School is featured about 1:25 into the recording. New Zealand students sang a traditional song about 1:15 into the recording. And, finally, a great dance routine by some other New Zealand students at 1:34! A HUGE thank you to Lucas and Ben. They did an awesome job answering questions!

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7280850

Rock Our World 13: InTOONational - "Peace"

Our International Song: Created by International Team E

Country	School	Track
California, USA	Village School	Drums
Belgium	SO Zenit	Bass Guitar
Illinois, USA	Burley School	Sound from school
Pennsylvania, USA	Hempfield High School	Strings
Japan	Kirigaoka Sato Elementary	Percussion
Texas, USA	Clear Springs Elementary	Creative Choice
Hawaii, USA	Hawai'i Prep Acadamy	Vocals

Mahalo to Hawai'i Prep Academy for these amazing lyrics:

Spread it around, take it back again
Peace is your sunshine,
Peace is your ocean...

I've got a feeling, I've got a feeling,
I've got a feeling, I've got a feeling.

Peace, Love, Joy, Breath, Hug, Pet, Smile, Read,
Sun, Beach , Tree, Fun, Sing, Hope, Earth, Peace

Is all we need...
Is all we need...

"Visions of Peace"- animations created by Village School 3rd grade students

Fourth Grade

Gold Rush Raps

Integration Opportunity: classroom study of the California Gold Rush; poetry writing (rhyme scheme, stanzas, form)

Technology Skills: Garage Band, Google Docs

Image Provided by Classroom Clipart

California Regions

Integration Opportunity: classroom study of the California Regions; research process - notetaking, works cited

Technology Skills: NoodleTools; presentation tool selected by student - Glogster, iMovie, Pixie, Google Apps for Education, Power Point, Photo Booth, Garage Band, etc.

(To view Glogs below at full size: hover mouse over "Glogster EDU" banner and select "View Full Size")

Fifth Grade

Travel Commercials

Integration Opportunity: Big6; the research process; social studies; US states; persuasive writing

Technology Skills: research using online databases; Diigo; Google Apps for Education; Excel; storyboarding

Project Guidelines: http://www.village-school.org/vsstudents/5travel.htm

**project samples to be posted soon**

Tuck Everlasting: Book Trailer

Integration Opportunity: Language Arts - comprehension, summarizing, writing

Technology Skills: storyboarding; iMovie; GarageBand; using digital video cameras (Flip cameras)

Project Guidelines: Upon completing the novel Tuck Everlasting, and inspired by movie trailers, 5th grade students were asked to create book trailers for Natalie Babbitt's book. Students worked in pairs to write, produce, and direct their own book trailers.

by Ayden and Zach M.

by Chase and Reese

View all 2011 Tuck Everlasing book trailers.

Sixth Grade

Online Safety

Integration Opportunity: Citing sources; writing to communicate facts

Technology Skills: Online safety review; visual literacy; comic creation using Pixie or web 2.0 tool; Garage Band

Project Guidelines: http://www.village-school.org/vsstudents/6cybersafety.htm

**project samples to be posted soon**

Email Jayme Johnson with any questions.