Fourth Grade PEAK
November 6, 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 next Thursday).
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. We also did our first Kahoot quiz. We took the electronic quiz (it give me automatic feedback) on science vocabulary. This was very helpful to me to understand where students are in their understanding of scientific vocabulary.
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:
- This was so much fun! The students participated in a live online quiz game that I designed on scientific vocabulary. We need to work on a few scientific terms --- stay tuned!
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.