The Techno Cheetah

If you’re a fan of snow days like me, you may already be checking the extended forecast to see if snow is in the future.  But how do you know where to look for accurate forecasts?  There are so many websites devoted to weather forecasting it can be difficult to figure out which one to trust.  Although no forecast is perfect, ForecastAdvisor gives you the forecast accuracy from several major weather websites for your area.

As of this writing, The Weather Channel website has been the most accurate for the Baltimore area in the last month.

Two new 5th grade projects have been added to the Student Project Gallery.

1. Mrs. Rudo’s homeroom class took diaries entries they wrote during language arts and created a multimedia video with pictures and narration of the diaries.

2. Ms. Fabre’s, Ms. Thompson’s, and Mrs. Westendorf’s classes created class Google Earth Tours showing “Wonders of the World.”

Exemplary examples of third grade Pixie activities about word choice, one of the 6+1 Writing Traits, have been added to the Student Project Gallery.

Last week, ABC News profiled the nationwide Watch D.O.G.S. program.  Did you know that Bellows Spring was the first school in Maryland to become a Watch D.O.G.S. school?

Click here to watch the segment that aired on ABC World News with Charles Gibson.

Click here to read the Watch Dogs article on abcnews.com.

First grade space drawings and second grade geometry demonstrations of slides, flips, and turns have been added to the Student Project Gallery.  Check them out!

Planet PowerPoint presentations created by fourth graders have been added to the Student Project Gallery.  I will continue to post updates on the front page of this blog as I add more student projects to the gallery.

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Regular visitors to this blog may have noticed a few changes this past week.  First, the overall look of the blog has been updated.  I thought the blue-green theme is a cleaner and easier to read template.  Second, there is now a “Student Project Gallery” page.  As of this writing, there are Voicethread projects from several 3rd and 4th grade classes from last year and examples of comic strips this year’s 5th graders created about first aid procedures.  The project gallery is a work in progress but I will gradually be adding more exemplary examples of projects students complete in technology class.