Let your voice be heard!

Click here to see and hear the digital story about our egg hatching project.  chickbookmovie.wmv

Mrs. Teri, Mrs. LaFerriere, and Mrs. Unger

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The Back Bay Gem Mining Company came to Trantwood on Friday, March 20th.  5th Graders- Tell us about your experience! 
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  http://voicethread.com/share/368388/
Click this link above to hear Mrs. McLane and Mrs. Themides’ students share their Important Books modeled after the book written by Margaret Wise Brown.  This favorite author also wrote Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny.  Special thanks to Mrs. Hawley, our Gifted Resource Specialist for helping to facilitate this learning experience. 

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~Mrs. Teri (Computer Resource Specialist)

http://voicethread.com/share/344893/
Click on this link to hear about our Guidance Counselor, Mrs. Randles.  Happy Counselor’s Week from the Trantwood Computer Club!

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http://voicethread.com/share/310153/  The Secret Garden VoiceThread Discussion
http://voicethread.com/share/319193/ Call it Courage VoiceThread Discussion

Listen to the voicethreads above to hear students from Mrs. Wright-Owens’ and Mrs. Birdwell’s class connect with what they read in The Secret Garden and Call it Courage.   If you read these novels, please feel free to join in our voicethread.  Special thanks to the other schools for joining our digital book talk. 

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Mrs. Teri, Computer Resource Specialist

Water Cycle Movie By Andrew, Tim, and Skylar
Water Cycle Movie 2 By Alex, Chase, and Hannah
We hope you enjoy watching the adventures of our little rain drop. These water cycle movies were created with PhotoStory3.   
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Mrs. McCallum, Mrs. Teri, and Mrs. Hawley

 The weather can be wild!  Click this link to hear our students (and guests) read their haiku about Wild Weather. http://voicethread.com/share/314458/ 

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Mrs. Teri and Mrs. Halman

http://voicethread.com/share/303542/ Click this link to hear our Voicethread to President-Elect Barack Obama by Mrs. Mello’s 5th grade class. 

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Mrs. Teri
Computer Resource Specialist, Trantwood Elementary

Animal Adaptations by Mrs. Beasley’s Class  Mrs. Beasley’s third graders have been excited to learn about animal adaptations.  They picked an animal and did some research.  They learned about using copyright friendly pictures and how to make a brochure.  Click the link above to see the Animal Adaptation video.  Enjoy!

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Trantwood Elementary is so pleased to hear that our letters have finally reached the service men and women aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt by way of Cmdr. Gamache (Our Art Teacher’s husband).  We are so proud of you all and continue to send our respect and gratitude for all that you do. 
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The Trantwood Elementary Family
Virginia Beach, VA

This week at Trantwood Elementary we were treated to an amazing holiday show put together by our music teacher, Mrs. Davis.  Please leave a comment to share your thoughts about this world-class performance. 

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We are so pleased to share this special project that reflects on our study of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and The Empire of Ancient Mali from Mrs. Mutsch’s and Ms. Munari’s students.
http://voicethread.com/share/256868/ 
Please listen to this project by clicking on the link above and then leave a comment on our blog. 

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This is Cafeteria Appreciation Week.   Please leave a comment to share your thoughts on “Why our Trantwood Cafeteria ROCKS!”.   Here is a link to our computer club’s VoiceThread for our Cafeteria staff:
http://voicethread.com/share/265186/

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Click here to see our Ancient Egypt VoiceThread by Mrs. McCallum’s awesome 2nd grade class. 
http://voicethread.com/share/219664/ 

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Our 4th grade students are busy learning and thinking about weather.  Listen to this report about clouds and how they help to predict weather.  This digital story was created with Photo Story 3, a free download from Microsoft. 

Click here to listen to a cloud report from two students in Mrs Birdwell’s class: blakeamy.wmv

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Photo Story 3 Free Download: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx

Our fifth graders have a special project to share.  We have been learning all about the regions of Virginia and want to share our songs and lyrics. 
Click this link to a wiki where our projects are posted for students all over Virginia to share.  http://regionsofva.wikispaces.com/podcast 
*Special thanks to the students in Mrs. Mello’s Class and Mrs. Dungan’s Class.
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(Mr. Davis, Mr. Heath, Mr. Luke- Sept. 2, 2008)

Trantwood has a group of dedicated volunteer dads who help patrol the school and help out where ever needed.  These guys are positive role models in addition to the wonderful staff at Trantwood.  Our students look forward the getting “high 5s” throughout the day when they spy a watch dog.  Our entire Trantwood staff feels more secure knowing we have the watch dogs on the premises.  Charlie Davis is the vice president of our PTA and our head Watch Dog.  Please contact him about taking a turn as a watch dog dad.  It is a win-win situation! :) 
More info about the program: http://www.fathers.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=60 

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The students from our Clay Animation enrichment class have several films to share.  Click this link to check out our videos about endangered species- http://www.trantwoodes.vbschools.com/clayanim.htm

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We will miss our cardinals over the summer.  Please keep in touch by commenting to this post.  Tell us about your summer reading, travels, adventures, and activities. 

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Voicethread is the coolest tool for creating, communicating, and connecting!  Click this link below to see and hear our Voicethread about the famous people we need to know for the fifth grade Social Studies SOL test.  
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