Friday, October 17, 2014

Oct. 17, 2014

Dear Parents,
 
Thank you again for coming in to parent-teacher conferences over these last couple of weeks.  You know your kids better than anyone, and I learn so much from your insights. Please email me if you think of something you forgot to bring up or if you have any questions that come up as a result of our getting together.

Check out the new photos of our race-car designers. A big thing we learned in building these cars was that you have to make your axles parellel or the car will veer off the ramp. We are not sure yet whether lighter cars or heavier cars go farther. We still have to test that. We decided that if we can find a way to make our Wintergreen-Mint wheels less wobbly, we can then focus on heavier vs. lighter designs. Again, congratulations to all the kids for patience, creativity, cooperation, and good sportsmanship. Congratulations, again, to Phin and Nate for their winning design.


One last thing: please leave us a comment if you see something that interests you on our blog!

Thanks. Have a great weekend!

Mr. Bolger







October 17, 2014

Dear Parents,


Take a look at these iPad apps, math games, and links to reading, geography, and science that you can access at home!

1) Here is a list of the iPad apps we have loaded onto our iPads here at school for our teaching. I will be using a number of them this year. We thought you would like the list in case you want to load them onto your iPads at home to supplement, for example, your child's phonics work, math facts practice, or storytelling.




AppContent/Curric
30Handspresentation
A Life Cycle Appscience
Adobe Voicepresentation
Advanced Puzzle Map of the USA HD Litegeography
AudioMemostool
Bob Books #1literacy
Book Creatordigital storytelling
Build A Word Express- Phonicsphonics, sounds
Daisy the Dinosaurcoding
Doodle Buddyart
DoodlecastProvirtual whiteboard
Dragon DictationAssistive Tech
DropBox(for teachers)
Educreationsvirtual whiteboard
Everyday Mathcontent specific
Explain Everythingvirtual whiteboard
Finger Countmath- numbers
Follett Enlightlibrary- eBooks
Geoboardmath
Google DocsGoogle docs standalone app
Google Driveproductivity
Google Earthgeography
Google SheetsGoogle spreadsheets standalone app
Go Sky Watchcontent specific
Haiku Deckpresentation
iBookslibrary
iMotionHDanimation/photo
iMoviemovie making
iWrite Wordsliteracy
Kaleido Paintart
Kidblogblogging
Lexia Core 5 appneed to explore the exact name to get the right one
Little Story Makerdigital storytelling
MultiTouch Mathmath
Notabilitynote taking, recording
Number Pieces Basicmath
Number Rackmath
Percussivemusic
Percussive Freemusic
PhotoSynctransfer images
Planets by Q Continuumscience
Pocket Zooscience
Popplet Litemindmapping
Puppet Pals- directors packdigital storytelling
Puzzle Mapgeography
QRafterQR readers
Read on Site freelitteracy
Scribble Pressliteracy - digital storytelling
ShadowPuppetEDUdigitalstoryelling
Singing Fingersmusic
Skitchmark up photos
Skypecommunication
Sonic Picsdigital storytelling
Spelling Cityspelling/phonics
StoryPatchliteracy
Subitize Treemath
Tangrammath
Tangrams - by Tangible Playmath
Tell Timemath
Tellagamidigital storytelling
The Weather Channel Max+science
Toontasticdigital storytelling
Voicethreadproductivity
Word Wallliteracy
YouTubefor viewing only

2) Math Facts Games From Ms. Schwartz's  Home Page: 
http://www.wsdvt.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=3971
3) Math, Reading, Geography, Science, etc. from the Harmony Team's Great Home Page: 
http://inspirefirstgrade.pbworks.com/w/page/19992533/FrontPage