Fourth Grade PEAK
March 3
Power of One Projects - Due by April 9, 2015
- Your child should be completing his/her project to impact the world/ community - please, don't let time slip away!
- Don't forget to take photos of your child in action.
THEME: Kids CAN
KIDS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
- Students are finishing persuasive nomination speeches.
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 have a checklist to prepare for our Consumer Report Testing Day. We will test on Tuesday, March 24. Your child should have 3 of each brand he/she is testing plus any additional supplies (cups, napkins, etc). Your child should also bring a water bottle on the testing day! Please discuss the test with your child. In class, he/she is making surveys, rating sheets, testing directions, etc. Here is a list of the products the students selected to test:
- Emmeline - Rootbeer
- Carolina - powdered donuts
- Anthony - bubble gum
- Alex - potato chips
- Scarlett - donuts (from shops)
- Dylan - lemonade
- Kaitlin - brownie
- Natalie - Orange Juice
- Luke - granola bars
- 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.
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.