Fourth Grade PEAK
February 24,25,26
Power of One Projects - Due by April 9, 2015
Don't forget to take photos of your child in action.
THEME: Kids CAN
KIDS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
- Students continue to work on persuasive nomination speeches.
Some students started editing.
Students are publishing writing on electronic Tackk boards.
Students have started working on public speaking techniques: eye contact, gestures, voice intonation
Some students have started filming speeches.
PEEK ahead:
- Students will make a bumper sticker with a slogan and trademark for his/her humanitarian.
- Each student will write a radio script to advertise his/her humanitarian's positive impact on the world. We will record and edit radio commercials.
Centers
Enrichment Centers:
- Topic Study: We continue to make great progress in topic study!
- Science: Students also wrote a survey to give testers prior to participating in the consumer report test day. Each week we are preparing a step to the testing process. Some students worked on testing criteria.
- Math - We continue to solve multi-step math problems. I am so impressed with the students math problem solving! The pace has picked up drastically and students are solving many difficult problems. My classes are further than any previous years!
Creativity and PGD
- Team Challenge: Students participated in a team challenge --- "invent a vehicle". Students had 20 minutes to create a vehicle with given supplies - the vehicle had to hold 20 marbles and move 3 feet... this was a really complicated team challenge. The team challenges are ambiguous and require creative and critical thinking, collaboration, and cooperation.
- FFOE: Students participated in another 3 minute creativity activity - we learned how to increase our fluency through flexible thinking (thinking in categories) and how to improve our originality through elaboration (providing details to common words). Students had 3 minutes to write a list of "things you keep off" and name "things you see through". Our creativity thinking has improved!
PEAK 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 Sites: Students are creating their own Google site --- it will house our PEAK portfolio.
I movie and Video techniques
- Students are learning how to shoot video and edit it through Imovie. Students are examining a variety of video - shooting techniques!
Kahoot it:
- Today students participated in an online quiz to test our knowledge of scientific vocabulary. The kids like it so much that some want to use this format for a topic study project for their independent research topic.
Easy Bib:
- Students learned to cite sources through Easy Bib - what an awesome research tool!
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
Powtoons:
- Set up a PEAK Powtoons account - we should have fun with this!
Edmodo:
- We introduced Edmodo another online learning tool!
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. I will post 5 tweets a week on my classroom board - some may even make it to real twitter. Tweets should be relevant to our learning day.
- 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.