"PEEK at PEAK"
TUESDAY--- September 24, 2013
Conference Sign up - There are some new times. Please note I will conference Wednesday evening instead of Thursday.
PEAK NEWS
Technology: If you have not done so --- Please load Drop Box on to your home computer. Your child should put a document from home into the Drop Box Folder ---it will then save live to the cloud. We are practicing moving documents from home to school and vice versa. I would also like you child to share a document with me or another student.
Critical Thinking: We introduced the critical thinking word ---Relevance (of or relating to the matter at hand!) Students were asked to think if their question or statement was relevant to what we were discussing or researching.
Elements of Reasoning Skills: We introduced: Gather Information - the information is the facts, evidence, or experiences you can use to figure things out.
Enrichment Centers:
- Topic Study: Students are talking excellent notes!
- Math: We had a successful day of math problem solving!
- Science: We finished our first experiment write up and will begin a new solar collector experiment next week! We also learned how to graph using the create a graph tool on my "PEAK PAD" (click here).
Theme Study:
- Today was a BIG day in Theme Study. We selected our brain topic, watched a presentation on how to write headings for our topic, AND we learned how to take notes on a new APP--EVERNOTE. Have your child log in to show you this cool new technology tool. Students will make a notebook for each heading. This will really help our organization and we will be able to take notes from any computer!
HOMEWORK:
HOMEWORK: Drop Box Work:
- Load Drop Box on your home computer.
- Save something from home to the Drop Box folder.
- Share something with some in our class.
HOMEWORK: S'more posters:
We have a few stragglers finishing their "What Object Am I?" virtual poster. If your child has not emailed me the link, it needs to be done by Thursday evening. I plan on publishing our class page on Friday. Students are always welcome to come in early and finish work-- just email me the night before to let me know!
New Apps are where it's at ---
- Evernote ---for Theme Study
- Symbaloo - "PEAK PAD"
- Drop Box
- S'more poster
- Padlet
- Google Docs
- Create a Graph
- Live Binders --- for Topic Study
Up next ----
- Edmodo (review)
- Thinglink
- Kid's Blog