Fourth Grade PEAK
November 4, 2014
Special Announcements:
Homework:
1. Power of One Project :Discuss at home - passions you have as a family. I stress 4 P's:
Passion - What is my passion?
Purpose - How am I going to make a difference?
Planning - What steps do I need to follow to have a successful project to impact the world?
Permission - Do my parents and teacher approve of the project?
4 P's = ONE POWERFUL POWER OF ONE PROJECT
2. Edmodo: Common Bonds - please complete (it was assigned last week but is not due until Tuesday).
THEME: Kids CAN
KIDS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE: We continued taking notes -- today we focused on our humanitarian's Impact on Humanity. Students are becoming very adept at taking accurate, significant and relevant notes.
Centers
Enrichment Centers:
- Topic Study: We are wrapping up vocabulary presentations and starting new projects.
- Math: We continue to solve problems. We have some excellent math problem solvers.
- Science: Today students wrote their final paper towel experiment. Students selected what they wanted to test and determined how they were going to measure it. We have some very unique ideas - I can't wait to see our scientists in action.
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:
- 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.