Fourth Grade PEAK
November 11, 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 - Be sure to finish this up for next week! We will share answers next 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.
Students participating in the Kahoot Scientific Vocabulary Quiz Game
Centers
Enrichment Centers:
- Topic Study: We are wrapping up vocabulary presentations and starting new projects. Student Essential questions drive our learning.
- Math: We continue to solve problems. We have some excellent math problem solvers.
- Science: Some students finished writing their final paper towel experiment. Some students conducted the experiment. Everyone should be finished with this last experiment next week.
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:
- 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.