JI Studio Chanukah Posters

During the week of Chanukah, Grade 2 students reviewed key vocabulary related to the story and traditions of the holiday.  They used Jewish Interactive's JI Studio app to design a poster using graphics and words.  Here are some of their creations:

Creating Interactive Blessing Books with JI Studio

Students in Grade 1 were excited to use Jewish Interactive's JI Studio program to create interactive Brachot Books using the different brachot for food.   Here are samples of what students in Morah Haya's class created:

Order of Operations Explained with Doceri

Students in 6G worked collaboratively to solve word problems with multiple operations. Using their knowledge of the BEDMAS format, the girls used a mathematical expression to represent the facts in the problem, work out a solution to the problem and provide an explanation of the steps they took to solve the problem. They recorded their solutions on the iPad using the Doceri whiteboard app.

2 Digit Multiplication with Educreations

Students in Mrs. Miller's 5B class are working on two-digit multiplication in math.  They used the Educreations app to explain how they solved multiplication problems using the steps they learned.

Here is a sample:

Mindmup Chrome Extension

Students in Rabbi Kadoch's 8G Talmud class are analyzing Rabbi Yirmiya's four questions about scattered fruit.  Using the Mindmup Chrome extension, students are able to show different ways that the questions can be analyzed.

Here is some of their work in progress:

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Brainstorming with Lino

Students in Morah Ariella's Kitah Gimmel class were excited to use the Lino App on the iPad to generate a shared canvas on what they know about Chanukah.  Students chose categories for which to contribute known facts about Chanukah - customs, foods, history and symbols.

Here is what their finished canvas looked like:

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Grade 3 Guided Research with Google

Mrs. Schwartz's Grade 3 students are learning about living and working in Ontario in their Social Studies class.  As a component of this unit, they are getting to know famous landmarks in Ontario. Using key search words, students were excited to discover how they can use a Google search engine to identify some famous landmarks such as Algonquin Park, CN Tower and Niagara Falls.