Sunday, November 27, 2011

Math Fun on iOS devices

I hope that you all had a wonderful and fun Thanksgiving with your family and friends. I went to see "The Muppet Movie" on opening day which was something that I hadn't planned on, but I really enjoyed doing. I also spent some time working on my computer and iPad and was reminded of some very fun apps that are available for you to practice math facts and math concepts in general. I have added some websites to my "Math Resources" tab at the top of this page for use on the computer and here are some apps that you can find in the app store for the iphone/ipad:
Motion Math
Rocket Math
Splash Math
Mad Math 2
G 2 Math
ACE Kids Math Games
Fraction Fiddle
Kids Math
Coin Math
Math Quizzer
Pop Math
Sumsstacker
Find Sums

HAVE FUN!

Monday, November 14, 2011

Flat Turkeys

St. Mary's Turkey's are making their way to Lafayette, LA in a pen-pal type exchange. First Graders from the Episcopal School of Acadiana sent their "Flat Falcons" (their school mascot) to St. Mary's with interesting thoughts about their school and questions for us about ours. A group of our first graders decorated "Flat Turkey's" created by Mrs. Hutton and mailed them back with the answers to their questions and lists of things that we like about St. Mary's. We hope that we will stay in touch with these new friends throughout this year!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Flat Stanley Storykits

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A small group of first grade students read the book, Flat Stanley, and did several fun activities relating to the story. Before we read the story we made predictions about what would happen to Flat Stanley and we posted these to a Wallwisher (see other post). Next we read the book and took Stanley on an adventure of our own creation in our Storykits using the iPads. Throughout the year different groups of students will come together to participate in these special activities:)