3rd Grade Book Trailers

3rd Graders in Ms. Bisoni-Lais, Mrs. Lafferty, and Mrs. Boese's classes completed book trailers using iMovie.  The project began by having the students understand what book trailers were and comparing them to movie trailers.  Students used an iMovie Planning Sheet to help narrow down their theme and list the main ideas.  Next the students worked through the concept of "Story-Boarding" to map out a plan for their book trailer.  Students used iMovie on the iPads to build their movie trailer with text slides as well as taking images from their books.  The students did a great job with the technology integration as well as portraying the storyline of their books while being careful not to give away the ending.  What a fun project!

Click here for the full version of the Google Presentation step by step guide with screenshots  for creating a book trailer using iMovie on the iPad.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nfM1C-KYEqcsfelXUXpwR7gir2N2WOumwTIkprBx1GY/edit#slide=id.p

Here are the slides:

Check here soon for YouTube links to some of the students trailers.  

Mrs. Savage's HS Graphic Design Posters

Students in Mrs. Savage's HS Graphic Design classes 

have been busy creating READ posters for teachers in the district. 

Mrs. Robertson's 8th Grade Holocaust Survivor Skype

Mrs. Robertson's class was honored to Skype with Holocaust survivor Magda Herzberger.  Magda has written several books about her experiences, including her newest one, "Surviving Hard Times".
What experts/eyewitnesses could you Skype with?

5th Grade Robotics

5th Graders in Miss Wiebe's room are working on their Project Lead the Way and building robots. Teams completed their robots this week and had fun building and driving on their obstacle courses! It was fun to have 7th and 8th Advanced Tech students help the 5th graders troubleshoot robot issues.

Mr. Rewerts' 7th Grade Social Studies Country Creation

Mr. Rewerts' students are completing their country creation project.
Part of the project included researching a real country and then creating their own country.
They had to draw and label their country.  This student chose to do so using a Google Doc.
Very creative using the Google tools with shapes and lines!

World Book Online

From Mrs. Yoder/Mrs. Unruh...

Teachers,

I wanted to share a new resource we now have available--ebooks from World Book Online.  

To get to them, follow these steps (using your specific building: es/ms/hs):

1. Go to the MS library website.  ms.hesstonschools.org/library

2. Click on the "World Book Online eBooks" link.

3. Click on the eBooks icon.

4. Search for your topic.  You can search by subject, grade range, etc.  

5. There are a wide variety of books included: history, biographies, animals, biomes, etc.

They can be read online or downloaded onto an iPad using the free World Book eBook app.  They are simultaneous use, meaning all students in your class can read the same book at the same time (different from many eBooks out there).

There are 19 sets of eBooks included in our subscription (over 150 books total!) and we have a subscription to them until November of 2015.  I encourage you to take a look and think about how you may be able to incorporate them into a lesson.