FUN With Dr. Seuss

Students and Teachers are enjoying the month of March as they celebrate Dr. Seuss in many ways. Today the big green screen came out and everyone had some fun, Dr. Seuss style.
Click on the image below to see our Wacky Green Screen Pictures.

Tech Tip: Use the ipad to take your pictures. Save background images to the camera roll. Use the app GreenScreen by DoInk for the editing. The mask tool makes it easy to remove any unwanted sections. Have FUN! 

Oh the Thinks You Can Think!

The Dr. Seuss theme this year at Steward School is Oh the Thinks You Can Think.  All our doors and hallways are decorated. Students are reading each night and the class BIRD is moving around the track to show the class total minutes of reading.

Teachers had a little FUN recording this story for students. Click on the picture below to listen to the book, Oh the Thinks You Can Think. Tech Tip: This video was created using the app explaineverything. Using the iPad, pictures were taken of each page and added to the app. Each BIRD was added using the editing tool in the app. Teacher's faces were added using the editing tool. BIRD and Face were grouped. Teachers recorded their page while having BIRD move. Everything was uploaded to Google Drive to share.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss 2017

Steward School has decorated their entire school for Read Across America. Click on the video below to view all the doors and hallways. Enjoy your visit.

Add your favorite Dr. Seuss book to our padlet by clicking on the +

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

The Day is Here!
Let's All Cheer!
It is a Big Birthday Day!
Hip Hip Hooray!

Steward Teachers all chose their favorite Dr. Seuss book.

Check out the video below.

Can you guess who is who?

Music credits CENTENNIALSINGS

Dr. Seuss Day is Coming!

March 2 is Dr. Seuss Day!
Everyone has been extremely busy getting ready for the BIG DAY.
Doors are getting decorated.
Hallways are coming alive with new displays.
There is even a road filled with stops across America in the front hall.
Teachers took pictures with their favorite Dr. Seuss book which will turn into a guessing game for students.
Students will begin reading and tallying their minutes to convert into miles as we Read Across America.

In the picture below (thanks to DoInk and ExplainEverything)  Mrs. Costa, our principal, is wishing everyone safe travels on this month long adventure.

Stay tuned!

The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss FUN continues at Steward School.  Working collaboratively, the teachers at Steward School read the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss and using iMovie we recorded the story.  Can you guess which teacher is reading?  Click on the book below to hear the story.

Which Teacher Do You See?

The sun did not shine

It was too snowy to play

So we sat at school

All that cold, cold, cold day.

I sat there with Mrs. De Frank,

We sat there, we two,

And I said, "How I wish we had something to do!"

And then

Something went BUMP!

How that bump made us jump!

We looked!

Then we saw them appear at our door!

We looked!

And we saw them begin to come, more and more.

We will let the things out of the box.

The game will begin ready or not.

The question will be...

Which Teacher Do You see?

Tech Tip:

The app Green Screen by Doink was used to create these pictures.

Oh the Places You'll Go

The book Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss was the theme for spirit day this week at Steward School.  Students and staff dressed to show the place they would like to go.

Come on a trip with us!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

March 2 is the birthday of Dr. Seuss who was born in 1904 in Springfield, MA.

At Steward School students and teachers are celebrating during the month of March.

All the doors are even dressed for the big occasion.

If you come for a visit be sure to take a walk and see the marvelous creations for yourself.

Rhyming With Dr. Seuss and Kindergartners

Mrs. Craven's Kindergartners had a grand time drawing Dr. Seuss-like pictures and adding their own Dr. Seuss rhyme.  

      Click on the link below to have fun with a rhyme kindergarten style.     

Writing Like Dr. Seuss

Mrs. Martin's Kindergarten Class had a lot of fun writing like Dr. Seuss.  We used the CatCam app and took some zany pictures of the students.  Using the app Drawing Pad, the students first created their drawings on the iPad.  These were saved to the camera roll and then inserted into educreations where the students typed their name and rhyme.  The students' catcam pictures were added for a little extra fun. 

 

 

Click on the link below to enjoy some kindergarten writing.

       

Dr. Seuss

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!  

After participating in our QR hunt earlier this month, Miss Sideri's First Grade Class helped celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday by selecting their favorite Dr. Seuss book and recording their reasons why.

What is your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

Click below to hear the First Graders' Book Choices    

**Tech Tip:  The pictures were taken with the app CatCam.  This was a free app offered earlier this month.  The app allows you to take a picture and choose a Dr. Seuss scene. 

Rhyming Words

Rhyming With Dr. Seuss

 

Mrs. O'Brien's kindergarten class has been working on rhyming words and they put together an educreations project to share.  Be quick and click below to see their project.

            Here is a link to a PBS Kids site with rhyming activities.

Click on the picture above for thyming fun.

   

**Tech Tip:

1.  The students drew their pictures on paper.

2.  Using the iPad camera take a picture of each drawing.

3.  Open educreations and insert the picture.

4.  The students used the text tool to add their name and rhyming sentence in educreations.

5.  Using the camera take a picture of each student wearing a Dr. Seuss hat.

6.  In educreations insert the student's picture and then delete it using the X.

7.  While recording tap the back button and the picture will then appear.

 

 

QR Codes

 The Library and Technology are having a Seussabration!

We are saying Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss all month.
During library period the students created many beautiful decorations for the library to help set the stage for this event.  They created truffula trees, mobiles of Dr. Seuss-like animals, rhyming words of ..at and ..op, and creative scenes on posters.  The library looks very seusstastic!

The Big Plan...
We asked each class to pair with another grade and join us in the library for a Dr. Seuss Scavenger QR Hunt.

Oh the Places They Go...
Posted around the library were 17 QR codes for the students to scan using the iPad QR reader.  We used the app Qrafter.  Working with a partner the students scanned the code which opened the link with the Dr. Seuss question.  Students hunted for the answers around the room in the form of books, posters, and charts.  The collaborative work was exciting to watch.  Excitement was high and the students were very focused!
There was even an answer QR code to scan when all the questions were solved.
Dr. Seuss would have had a lot of fun with this activity.



 

  Try a few of the Dr. Seuss codes on your own iPad or phone.    

 

 

**Tech tip: 

1. The QR codes were created in Google Drive as individual documents. 

2. Allow them to be shared with the link.

3. Take the link url and create a QR code in a free QR creator.   I used Kaywa.

4. Save each QR code as a word document.  Add a speech bubble for some fun.
5. Add a fun picture to go with your theme.

5. Post around the room.
6. Set the iPad QR reader to open on scan. (gear in the top right corner)
7. Watch the fun!