Wow... I guess its been quite a while since I have updated this! Lots has happened since I last posted to this blog, To sum it up, each grade has done lots of unique work.
First things first! I have updated the Art Gallery again! new Kinder, 1st, 2nd, and 4th and 5th art is online for you all to check out! I really want to have the students do more art and creative projects by the end of the year, but I also have finally made a functioning Paleontology fossil bed! The 3rd graders have already completed the Paleontology unit I wanted to make, and sadly it still is not up to my expectations. Studying dinosaurs and ancient life should be one of the coolest units, but I need to fine tune it more for next year. One more paleontology lesson awaits somewhere in the future in which I will have 2nd or 3rd graders actually dig out real fossils from artificial sandstone. Maybe towards the end of the year. The other exciting thing that happened was how successful my choose-your-own-adventure Powerpoint lesson turned out. The 4th and 5th graders had a great time spending two periods making their own creative stories in Powerpoint and I plan to have many of them present their work to the class in the next few days. For the future, I will be doing another powerpoint focused lesson dealing with Inventions for 2nd and 3rd grade in the next couple weeks. I still have yet to begin the Animation unit, which students very much enjoyed last year. My goals for the end of the year for myself are to become more proficient with Gimpshop, a free Photoshop style program, as well as FL studio. If I can do that, I will be able to teach some very interesting lessons to the 4th and 5th graders that I dreamed of doing last year. I guess that's all for now. so far it has been a very exciting first (ish) year of teaching tech for me! -Kyle
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Paige Surma
5/24/2017 08:16:28 pm
Thank you for posting what the kids do! My daughter came home talking about what she made in your technology class today- it sounded so cool, and she told me about this site! I had. I idea until now. This is very much appreciated!
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AuthorKyle Kertay, technology teacher at Markham Elementary Archives
November 2017
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