Archive for May, 2009

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Give a Gnome a Home

Frau Jannotta’s two German IV classes are finishing their Wikispace Portfolios which documents their time and work with the Give A Gnome A Home Project. The project began at the beginning of the semester with an adoption ceremony. The students adopted their gnomes and have raised them as their own since. The [...]

FES Revolutionary Podcasts

The fifth grade students in Mrs. Kuster-Sensenig’s have been producing podcasts about people from the American Revolution period.  After collecting some facts of their person’s role, they worked with a partner to create interview questions that could be answered by the facts collected.  The students recorded their interviews with Garage Band, then took photos of [...]

Mr. Barton’s travel brochures

The Landisville Middle School Nobles’ Team students have been required to complete a geography project as part of the required 7th grade coursework for many years. This year, however, they made the leap into the world of technology, being required to create a travel brochure for the country that they had chosen to research. [...]

ESL IV Videoconference

ESL IV students prepared a video to this problem:  Do you ever feel that other Americans misunderstand or stereotype your culture in relation to religion, ethnicity, race, or traditions? This project, We Want the World to Know…, is your opportunity to participate in a collaborative endeavor with secondary schools around the United States. Now is [...]

LIC 5th grade Explores Wild Weather

Two fifth grade classes from LIC recently completed their month long involvement with a Science technology project sponsored by a school district in Kansas. Mr. Scott Podgurski’s and Mrs. Rose Spangler’s classes  participated in the Wild Weather project that included collecting weather data daily during the month of April,   creating student video projects about weather [...]

LIC to the Apple Store

Mrs. Wagner’s 5th grade class visited the Apple Store at Park City Wednesday April 29th.  The goal was for the kids to make a few slides in Keynote about a Great American.  They each made a few slides and had a great time doing it.  They loved the t-shirts they were given as well as [...]

Centerville Elementary First and Second Grade Poems

Mrs. Bauer worked with Centerville students on writing and publishing poems in April. Mrs. Mowery’s first grade class wrote “Clue Poems” and Mrs. Chester’s second grade class wrote “String Poems”. Click on the link to the right to see their poems. The students would love to hear your comments. Click on [...]