At The Priory School, teachers integrate
technology into their classrooms providing enriched learning
opportunities for their students. Here are a few Information Communication Technology projects undertaken
by our teachers and students this year:
Exploring New France à
la Fakebook
Grade 4 students created a fake profile
page à la Fakebook to explore the life of historical figures of New
France to reinforce the content of the social studies program. In the
spirit of social networking, they had to describe elements of everyday
life and share highlights of their historical figures achievements in
the city in 1745. While adding ‘friends’ and writing status updates and
posts, students were able to imagine and describe the impact of major
changes in New France life (the fur trade for example). Here is one
students’ Fakebook page:
http://www.classtools.net/fb/13/SU7QEh
Future Paleontologists Speak Out!
To culminate Kindergarten’s unit on dinosaurs, the children were each
asked to select their favorite dinosaur for individual study. In
collaboration with their Grade 4 Shared Book Buddies, each pair of
buddies was given a book about their favorite dinosaur. The books were
read by the grade 4 students to their kindergarten buddies and then
kindergarten wrote down three facts about their favorite dinosaur and
why their dinosaur was special to them. Kindergarten then searched the
Internet to find images of their dinosaurs during ICT and saved the
images for printing. Grade 4 then worked with their kindergarten buddies
to create a poster board of written and pictorial information which
would eventually be presented to the kindergarten parents. Grade 4 was
also instrumental in advising their buddies on how to begin their
presentations, to speak in a loud voice and what information to share
with their audience. Kindergarten parents were then invited to the
Kindergarten classroom to hear their children’s first oral presentation.
It was a proud moment for all concerned!
Watch More on The Priory School YouTube Channel: The Priory Learns
About Dinosaurs
Grade Five Brings Math Alive, 2011-12 Grade 5 “Brings Math Alive” with
their Class Math Blog. The purpose of the blog
is to promote co-operative learning. Students have been busy recording
and posting instructional math videos from 'Strategies to solve math
problems' to 'How to measure an angle using a
protractor'. Students have also been busy writing and submitting complex
math word problems for extra practice and for their classmates to solve.
Since November of 2011, there have been 291 comments posted! Please note
that the class blog is protected, only students with permission can read
and post comments.
Boucle
d'or et les trois ours
Par les
enfants de la maternelle 2011-12
On ne peut apprendre sur les ours sans
aborder la belle histoire de Boucle d’or et les trios ours. Les enfants
de la maternelle crée leurs propres marionnettes afin de raconter cette
histoire à leurs pairs et pour terminer à toute l’assemblée. Pour
illustrer cette histoire, chacun en utilisant KidPix Studio, a crée ses
propres illustrations et a enregistré la dite histoire avec le support
du logiciel Audacity qui nous l’espérons, vous plaira.
The Tortoise and The Hare
Retold and illustrated by the Kindergarten Class of 2011-12
Fables can play an important role in our lives without us even
recognizing their impact. With this in mind, Kindergarten was introduced
to many of Aesop’s famous pearls of wisdom and was inspired to create
and illustrate their own version of 'The Tortoise and the Hare'. The
completed book was sent home to 24 Kindergarten families to enjoy
together as a read-along story. The project took on a further life with
the assistance of The Priory grade 4 class. Grade 4 collaborated with
Kindergarten in creating a digital book which can now be viewed by the
entire Priory community. We hope that you enjoy it!
Science Experiments Voicethread by Grade 3,
2010-11
The grade 3 students are proud to share their VoiceThread project they
created to teach others about Air and Its Properties. Their in-class
experiments helped them to answer the question, "What is Air?" The
experiments show that: Air is everywhere and takes up space, air has
weight, and air works for us. The students took photos, documented their
observations and results, put words to their photos and recorded their
voices. The final product is an example of what happens when children
help each other to learn and to be successful.
Bedtime Stories by Kindergarten 2010-11
Kindergarten created their very own bedtime story which they entitled
“How The Deer and Blue Jay Helped Out”. The children brainstormed the
text as a group and then each child was assigned a page to illustrate
and then read aloud into a microphone for our on-line book. The end
result produced an original storybook that went home to twenty-five
Kindergarten families to share at bedtime as well as an on-line book
that can be viewed by the entire Priory community. We hope that you get
as much pleasure from our listening to our story as we did in creating
it!!
Plic Plic Ploc! 2010-11
Les élèves de la classe de première année de Madame Martineau ont crée
leur propre version écrite du livre Plic Plic Ploc. Ils ont ensuite
utilisé le logiciel....pour réciter chaque page de leur histoire. Venez
écouter cette magnifique récitation du livre PLIC PLIC PLOC!
