Fifth Grade is Going Places with Moodle

Fifth Graders at Live Oak Elementary are really going places!  They used Moodle to go on a virtual vacation to a capital city.  Using Moodle, they learned the US state capitals, planned a trip to the capital city of their choice, created a budget in Excel, found attractions to see when there, made journal entries, and shared what they learned with their classmates.

TAG Students create surveys using Google Docs

Live Oak TAG students are using Google documents to create survey forms about their Spring research topic.  They will be asking their fellow students about their knowledge and opinions about their topic.  Once they have their survey results, they will export the data to Excel and create charts and graphs to include with their final product.

Who am I?

Live Oak Elementary students have been learning their way around the library databases by researching famous Americans.  Students can also access the databases at home!  For a list of the available resources, go here.

Work Hard, Play Hard!

The Live Oak library hosted a special Valentine's Day party for students in grades 3-5 who read at least ten Bluebonnet books and passed the quizzes.  Mrs. Harvey-Slager and Mrs. Pierre brought in video games and refreshments for the students to enjoy.  The students had a blast!  All of that hard work really paid off!

It's Moodle Time at Live Oak!

Students in grades 2 - 5 are using Moodle, the district's virtual learning environment, to take Bluebonnet quizzes in the library.  The librarian, Mrs. Harvey-Slager, entered quizzes on all twenty Bluebonnet books into the Moodle system.  After students read a book, they test their knowledge by taking a Moodle quiz.  Moodle makes learning fun!

Using Excel to Explore Graphs and Charts

Our students are selecting and using appropriate graphical representations of data by using Microsoft Excel to create circle charts, bar graphs and line graphs using data that they have entered.  

Fifth Grade TAG Students Book Review

How do you facilitate a book book discussion roundtable between students at two different schools?  TAG teacher Bonnie Stewart answered that question by organizing video conferences between her students at Live Oak Elementary Elementary and Forest North Elementary.  The students get together once a week using Goolge Plus Hangouts to discuss the book "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Forbes.