Two New Sites...

Flash Card Exchange, http://www.flashcardexchange.com/, allows users to create flash cards and then produce a hard copy, study the flash cards online, or share with students/teachers via the web.
VerbaLearn, http://www.verbalearn.com/, is a comprehensive vocabulary building site that uses audio, video, flashcards, and games. It is a great place for teachers to help students improve English vocabulary at home or school.

Thank You Fifth Grade Teachers!

On behalf of the sixth grade teachers I wanted to thank the Eastside fifth grade teachers for greatly preparing Edinburgh students for their first year of middle school, along with instilling respect and maturity. I should actually be thanking all staff members at Eastside, because success in school starts on the first day of kindergarten. So, thank you very much! We (sixth grade teachers) have been blessed the last two years with a terrific group of students. I hope to have some student work on here soon for you to see how well they are doing.

6th Grade Laptops

The 6th Grade Laptops are up and running...due to the hard work and dedication of our awesome technology staff (Bob and Jodie). The laptops arrived later than expected and we have experienced a few bumps along the way but Bob pulled a couple of all-nighters and made things happen. I hope to be completely paperless beginning next Monday (8/24). My science students have already gathered data, inserted their findings into Excel and then created a graph. The same students also took a poll via www.polleverywhere.com and will now create a poll of their own for their classmates to take, followed by writing a report to support a newly designed graph. My reading students created a Venn diagram comparing similes and metaphors through a flash application at www.readwritethink.org/materials/venn and then converted it to a pdf to share with their classmates. Today my language students will create a word bubble at www.wordle.net so that their classmates and I can learn more about them. This is just the beginning...it's going to be an exciting year. I hope to hear (or read) about all the great things going on through out the corporation.