Our third grade was given an awesome opportunity to talk to NASA in Houston.  The students were educated about satellites, astronauts, Google Earth, training facilities, and got to see astronauts moving around the space station LIVE.  The students really enjoyed interacting with the Space Center and learning all about NASA.

On Friday, February 19th, all 7 Kindergarten classes participated in a video conference with the Buffalo Zoo.  All classes learned more about winter animals, how they hybernate, migrate, and deal with the cold weather.  The zoo teachers were wonderful and engaging.  The students saw animals such as polar bears, snow leopards, gorillas, turtles, and tigers.  Students were able to ask questions and interact with the teachers from the zoo.

Students at Negley are learning all about robots.  Every Monday afternoon the students get together and learn how to make a robot, program a robot, and make it do some sort of task.  The students are fully engaged in the process everytime they get started.  With the help of a few parent volunteers, the students are learning how to program the robots to perform small tasks.  Who could ask for more, legos and robots.  The Robotics Club is sponsored by Danielle Capps and Elizabeth Andrade.

October 29th, Ms. Gripp’s 1st grade class participated in a video conference with another school in our district. The two classes partnered up to create Monsters for the Monster Match video conference. Each class was to design a monster and provide a supply list and description. The classes posted their description and supply list on the blog to share with each other. From the description and supply list, each class had to make the other classes monster. On Thursday, both classes shared the monster they created as a class and the monster they created using the other classes description. All the students did a great job and had a lot of fun. Thanks to all the students and to Ms. Gripp for participating.

Ms. Cauble’s second grade class at Negley Elementary participated in a “Where the Wild Things Are” video conference along with several other 2nd grades classes from other schools in our district.  The students were to come up with some sort of extension to the original story.  This process began a couple of weeks ago.  The class first read the story, discussed what it meant to them, did some map activities, and proceeded to create an extension of the story for this project.  Ms. Cauble’s class came up with an extension and created a readers theater.  The students created masks in their Art class, wrote their own story, acted out the story, and asked questions all about Max during the video conference.  The students did a great job.  Once the story was created, the class had to post the story on the blog. Negley’s Instructional Technologist, Meredith O’Bannion, assisted with the blog and the video conference.