Wellness, Cooking & Technology

As part of the Fuel Up to Play 60 program happening at Double File Trail, students were challenges to track their movement, eat healthy and much more!  Here First Grader Gavin and his cousins Alyssa and Gabriel teach you how to make a healthy smoothie!  The family created the video at home and uploaded to our DFT School Tube account.  See if you can learn from their home cooking show!  Vote for Gavin on his School Tube  Video at http://bit.ly/rqyuBj  

Poetry Online

ReadWriteThink at http://www.readwritethink.org is a fantastic resource and tool for teachers and students.  Second Grade students created online Acrostic Poems to go along with their poetry unit.  Check out Payton's Poem.

Preparing for STAAR goes interactive

As classes prepare for the upcoming STAAR Tests, they get interactive with Promethean Boards and Voting Devices.  Here are just a few examples of a 5th Grade Science, 4th and 3rd Grade Math Review Flipcharts.  Using the voting devices is a great way for teachers to get instant feedback on what skills need further review.

5th Grade on StemScopes

As part of the Fifth Grade Science Curriculum, Students are exploring StemScopes interactive Science website. This site has great activities, lesson and media to support the RRISD standards aligned curriculum. Ask a Fifth Grader about the site!

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!