Accelerated Reader

At Double File Trail, students are READING! If they read a book associated with Accelerated Reader, they can take an assessment on how well they comprehended the book. If you look on our "For Students" page at http://schools.roundrockisd.org/doublefiletrail/students/students.htm , you can see an up to date widget showing just how many books DFT has read this month, and how many words! How many do you see today?

Library doing Digital Book Fair

We had our Annual Spring Book Fair in the DFT libaray last week to support purchasing new books for our library. For those parents and staff that love to shop online, there was an online Book Fair as well! There is still time to purchase online and have the books delivered to the student here at schoool! The online book fair is open until March 9th, 2012 http://goo.gl/tlddx

Activotes for the Whole Class

Mrs. Bridendolph's third grade class was expanding their use of the interactive Promethean Board with the student response systems called Activotes. These devices are a great tool and an easy way to assess and include all of the students throughout the lesson. Miss Hintz went over Cause and Effect with the class to help review the different types of questions we can ask and vote on. Here a student is writing their opinion and the class will vote A for Thumbs up (they agree) or B for thumbs down (disagree). Great news, they all agreed that the causes would make the audience cheer!

Alternative Energy Project

Mrs. Delahoussaye’s 5th Graders worked on an Alternative Energy Source Challenge. The challenge included several activities to complete including crossword puzzles, collages, posters, powerpoints and more. Students were encouraged to investigate conservation efforts in our community. Check out some of the projects.

Ag energy

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Am alternative power

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Rd saving our world from fossil fuels

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Sa alternative energy

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Poetry

2nd Grade Poets






Second Grade has been publishing our poetry on the computer. We used word. They typed it, changed the font, and size, and saved it in their folder. We printed and illustrated them. Some are already in the hall to see!

Writing in 4th Grade

Mrs. Small’s 4th Grade class have been working on writing and typing skills. Students were able to choose a topic to write factual topic sentences and supporting details about. Additionally they practiced different kinds of leads in each paragraph. In the word processing application, students work on their typing skills, using the shift keys, enter, centering, underlining, etc., as well as copying and pasting images into their documents. A huge thank you one of our WATCH Dogs for helping our class one day running around the room to help our class.

Interactive TEKS building

At Double File Trail, teachers are always looking for ways to motivate students. We are fortunate enough to have Promethean Interactive Boards in many of our classrooms. Here is Mrs. Turner caught doing a TEKS study on with her students using this technology. It's a great motivator and students respond positively to the technology in their classroom.