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Students and Parents, We have begun to roll out devices to students. As of 9/14/2023 all students, Kindergarten through 5th grade, will have had the Responsible Use Policy lesson. By 9/13/2023 all of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades will have had an initial iPad Chromebook login lesson (Seesaw, Google, etc). The Responsible Use…
Welcome to the 2023-2024 school year! Use this site for access to updates from the HeathcoteTech lab, tutorials, recommendations, and more. For access to classroom teacher pages and access to student online services check out the HeathcoteGateway. Have a great school year!
Once again the 5th graders were amazing and rocked the CapCon! Capstone event. Students documented their experience on their own blogs, ask your child to show you their posts! Check out all of their speeches and movies here: CapCon! a capstone learning conference playlist on Youtube The 2021-2022 5h graders did amazing work, during very…
It’s Capstone season, and that means CapCon! is getting closer. CapCon! is the annual Capstone Learning Conference where students share the stories of their learning. The Capstone support section of the HeathcoteGateway is up. Use it to get inspiration from previous years, guide your thinking on final presentation format, reference the project guidelines, request support,…
4th graders, We have been talking about Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Minuet as past of the Manahatta to Manhattan project. Here are the resources we worked with in class: Peter Stuyvesant https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Stuyvesant https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/peter-stuyvesant/ http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/peter-stuyvesant/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant?scrlybrkr=cef3dea8 https://www.mcny.org/petrus-stuyvesant Peter Minuet https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Minuit https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/peter-minuit/ https://www.mcny.org/peter-minuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Minuit Remember, the internet has 2 things; good and garbage. Garbage doesn’t just mean…
Recording an interview is alway a good idea. It allows you to review the interview at a later date, and as often as you’d like focus on listening in the moment instead of taking notes you can take notes on the recording later allows you to review the feelings, inflection, and tone in the voice…
4th graders, This blog post is the kickoff to the social studies unit project: Manhatta to Manhattan. Use the resources below to explore, research, take notes, reference, and so forth. Begin with OASIS map: NYC OASIS This map allows you to turn on and off layers. The biggest benefit is you can turn on a…
5th graders, As we talked about today, your Adobe Creative Cloud project on Immigration does not start with Adobe, it starts with gathering resources. What we did in class: In your Social Studies folder, we made a new folder called Immigration your interview questions, resources, and script will live eventually in this folder In the Immigration folder…
Just before December vacation the 4th graders presented their Ignite Talks about Reading the Weather to parents. Live! Here are the playlists of the 2 4th grade classes. Enjoy 4-Rickard 4-Volpi
On Friday November 18, 2022 Heathcote hosted the second Parent Coffee of the 2022-20223 school year. The November event was entitled “What to Do When Your Child Asks You For Help With Homework” and was presented by Heathcote’s Learning Resource Center (LRC) teachers Megan Matthews and Francesca Ross. You can find their presentation below. There…