Fifth Grade PEAK
October 3, 2014
Special Announcements:
- HOMEWORK: Students needed to take 5 notes in Evernote for their Brain research topic. If this was not completed in class - it is homework! I will be grading the notes electronically so please ask your child if he/she has done the 5 notes. Thank you!
- DATE CHANGE: On Friday, October 17 PEAK is moved to Thursday, October 16 due to 5th grade field trip. We were able to switch my two Shoal Creek classes so that the 5th grade group would not miss a day of PEAK. Friday has less instruction time than other PEAK days so it is really important to preserve our instructional time! Students will enjoy the symphony as well!
THEME: THE BRAIN
The Brain: This was a busy day!!!!
- Students refined headings and subheadings for our brain research topics. This is a difficult skill: to look at an entire topic and decide how to break it into 5 manageable headings or smaller topics and then decide how the headings should be organized into even smaller topics. We spent a great deal of time making sure our ideas were organized before we started note taking so that we could have purpose and direction in our note taking.
- We started notes in Evernote. Each student needed to take at least 5 notes. Notes need to include a heading, subheading, citation number, page number if applicable, and the note itself.
- Student cited sources on Easy Bib.
- Students refined headings and subheadings for our brain research topics. This is a difficult skill: to look at an entire topic and decide how to break it into 5 manageable headings or smaller topics and then decide how the headings should be organized into even smaller topics. We spent a great deal of time making sure our ideas were organized before we started note taking so that we could have purpose and direction in our note taking.
Centers
Enrichment Centers:
- Topic Study: Students have written Essential Questions (a few still may need revisions but we will keep working on this!) . Students are doing an amazing job taking notes and planning projects. I love the focus!
- Math: Problem solving --- Today we continued our math problem solving - this is tough math but the students are showing great persistence!
- Science: Each science group designed their own science experiment to test a new material as a solar collector. Students wrote a testable question, hypothesis, procedure, made data tables, and set up the experiment so next PEAK session they can immediately begin testing.
PEAK "Selfie" Spotlight:
Email: kturner@liberty.k12.mo.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/student.liberty.k12.mo.us/peakturner/
Location: Alexander Doniphan Elementary School, Clay Drive, Liberty, MO, United States
Phone: 816-736-5400 2674
Twitter: @PEAKturner
Technology Buzz:
Google Drive/Classroom:
- Students are actively using their Chrome books
- We have organized our Google Drives
- Practiced sharing and saving documents
- Bookmarked important websites
- Actively working in Google Classroom
Evernote:
- Set up an account for our note taking research
Cacoo:
- Online Graphic Organizer tool to organize headings and subheadings
Powtoons:
- Set up a PEAK Powtoons account - we should have fun with this!
Classroom Book Source:
- Students learned how to check out books electronically from my classroom library.
Tweet:
- There is a link on my student resource page for students to "Tweet" about the day. We will post 5 tweets a week on my classroom board - some even make it to real twitter.
- Please follow me on twitter - you never know when a tweet will post about your child's PEAK day!
Create a Graph:
- Applied our knowledge on how to make graphs online
Padlet:
- Online note taking application used during Topic Study