Fourth Grade PEAK
February 17,18,19
Power of One Projects - Due by April 9, 2015
THEME: Kids CAN
- Students continue to work on persuasive nomination speeches.
Some students started editing.
Students are publishing writing on electronic Tackk boards.
Our next phase is to delve into speech techniques: eye contact, gestures, voice intonation, etc. Students will practice using a variety of speech techniques before giving his/her speech to the class. We will film speeches in front of our green screen and learn video editing techniques with the green screen.
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 selected a product to test. The product must have 3 different brands. Students also wrote a survey for to give testers prior to participating in the consumer report test day. Each week we are preparing a step to the testing process.
- Math - We continue to solve multi-step math problems.
Creativity and PGD
- Visual Word Puzzle: Students brainstormed words for our PEAK produced Visual Word Puzzle Video. We used padlet to record answers and share ideas. Pairs of students are planning film segments for the video.
- Team Challenge: Students participated in a team challenge --- "create an object". Students had 3 minutes to create something out of a 12x12 piece of aluminum foil. The creation time was silent. When the 3 minutes were complete, the students rotated to the right so they could describe a neighbor's object. It was really neat to see kids talk about the object (they did not create). Many kids noted who sat next to them and looked at the object through the lens of the person who created it. My favorite created object: "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" (Ellie from SC). Wow! The focus of this team challenge: creativity and communication.
- FFOE: Students participated in a 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 that twirl". There were some excellent ideas - ideas, sprinklers, hair, spaghetti -- and many more!
- PGD - sleep! We discussed sleep issues. It is really good for kids to hear that others experience some of the same issues they are having. Often times gifted children struggle with sleep issues (turning the brain off at night). We discussed strategies to make going to sleep easier.
PEAK Spotlight
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Technology Buzz:
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.