First Graders at Tobias use a Photostory Template to show what they know about Johnny Appleseed’s life.

 Students in 1st grade at Tobias Elementary learned in Social Studies about the life of American Legend John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed. The Instructional Technology Specialist, Jill Williams, created a template in Photostory with the events of his life mixed up. Students arranged the events of his life in order then they recorded their voices telling what was happening for each slide. This template was also available for all students to use throughout Hays CISD.

The Golden Keyboard Award

  Each week students in 3rd grade at Tobias Elementary go to www.keybr.com where they practice typing to increasing their speed and accuracy as they learn to type. After 10 minutes the words per minute are recorded for each child in a spreadsheet that computes a class average. The class at the end of the six weeks with the highest words per minute is awarded “The Golden Keyboard” to display for the following six weeks. The Golden Keyboard Award has been started at Tobias Elementary by Jill Williams after hearing about the great results that occurred last year at Kyle Elementary by Tracy Mulligan.  Mrs. Carroll’s class was the winning class for the first six at Tobias Elementary with 4.34 wpm.