Today you will publish your snow haiku on Stationery Studio.
Create your own snowflake at Make-A-Flake!
Author Archives: Ms. Shapiro
Winter Activity Graph
Today we will use The Graph Club to graph the results of your class survey of favorite winter activities. We will create a table, bar graph and circle graph. Include an interpretation of the graph as well.
Colonial Times
Explore these websites to learn about life in colonial America.
http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
http://www.history.org/kids/
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/smartfun/colonial/intro/intro.html
Weather Glog
Today you will begin to create a Glog on your chosen weather phenomenon. Include three pictures, a short paragraph and several bullets to explain the meteorological phenomenon.
MesoAmerican Research
Today you will research the cultural elements of the Maya, Incas, and Aztecs. Use the links at the Heights Website to gather information about your particular culture and cultural universal.
Snow Haikus
Let’s create a snowflake smashup. Today we will use the iPads to create and animate snowflakes swirling and falling using the app Do Ink. Next you will use the video camera on the iPad to film yourself reciting your haiku. Finally, we will combine the two videos into a movie using the app Green Screen. Click the picture below to watch my example.
Let It Snow
Today we will create a snowflake at Make A Flake. We will collect all of our flakes and put them in a movie using the class singing about snow as the soundtrack.
Magnetism Minibook
Today you will create a minibook on magnetism as a study guide. You will need 7 pictures from the web that will go along with the topics of each page. Four pages should be titled Properties of Magnets, another page Electromagnets, and a final page called Electromagnetism. You may use the guide in the Lessons folder if need be.
Weather Research
Use the iPads and the following websites to help you collect information for your weather topic.
Weather Whiz Kids
Weather Web for Kids
Treehouse Weather Kids
Discovery Kids Weather
The Weather Channel Kids
You may also use the Britannica Online and Brainpop sites for further information.
If time allows start to gather pictures from Wikimedia Commons for your weather glog.
National Symbol Research
Today you will spend some time researching the national symbol you chose to learn about. Use the websites below to gather information.
United States of America Symbols
Symbols of the US Government
Symbols of the United States
Character Word Cloud
Today we will use
to create the Word cloud of your character traits.
You will then write a paragraph about yourself using your word cloud for inspiration.
A Complete Circuit
Show what you know about how to make a complete circuit. Use the iPads and Explain Everything to create a short video on how to create a complete circuit to light up a bulb. You may go online to gather pictures for your materials. Include labels for your objects on the materials page. Label the critical contact points on your final slide. You can also demonstrate how the electrons flow with your laser tool. Use the storyboard to plan out your project.
Geometry in the Real World
Today Mrs. Stewart’s and Ms. O’Brien’s class will work collaboratively in creating a geometry book using the iPads. You will work with your learning buddy to
- Travel around the school in search of geometric shapes that can be found in everyday items and photograph them using your iPad.
- Fill out the storyboard for your book including the name of the shape and the properties of the shape.
- Use Explain Everything to put together your book, outlining the shape in your photograph and recording your script onto each of the pages, complete with annotations.
Explorer Trading Card
Today we will use the iPads and the app Trading Cards to organize your research on either Marco Polo, Henry the Navigator, or the Vikings.
Create the Weather
Today we will use Sammy’s Science House, the Weather Station, to create the weather.
Hour of Code
This week, December 9th through December 13, is Computer Science Education week. To celebrate we will spend our tech period learning the basics of computer coding. We will use the iPads and the app Daisy the Dino to write code to move, spin, turn, shrink and grow the cute reptile.
Hour of Code
This week, December 9th through December 13, is Computer Science Education week. To celebrate we will spend our tech period learning the basics of computer coding. We will use the app Kodable on the iPads and help the alien fuzzballs roll their way through a series of mazes.
Hour of Code
This week, December 9th through December 13, is Computer Science Education week. To celebrate we will spend our tech period learning the basics of computer coding. Learn from the experts, like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, at the Hour of Code website. Click the picture below to take you there.
Introduction to Word
We will put your new keyboarding skills to work today by keying in one of your writing prompts. First, we will learn how to put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word. We will learn how to Center a title, use the First Line Indent, and Line Spacing to double space. Next week we will learn how to use Spelling and Grammar check and format your fonts. Finally we will learn to add a picture to your document.
Pet Rock
You have created a pet rock in class and today you take a picture of your pet with the iPad. After you write about your rock, we will create a class ebook with the pictures and recordings of your writing.
Introduction to Laptops
We have done a couple of lessons on Microsoft Word in the lab, so let’s finish your writing on the new laptops. We will work in your classroom to learn how to use the laptops and complete our writings.
Wish for the World
You have worked in Art to create your own four letter wish for the world based upon the work of pop artist Robert Indiana, most famous for his LOVE painting and sculpture. Today we will work in the art room and use the iPads to take a picture of your Wish for the World artwork. We’ll use Wordfoto to incorporate your writing into the drawing.
Shapes
Today we will use the Investigations Shape software to explore and design pictures with shapes. We will also use the puzzles portion and use the shapes to complete the puzzles.
Tumblebooks
Today you will finish your I Am Wild project, then visit Tumblebooks to listen to some stories. Click the picture below to get to the Heights Library, then click on Tumblebooks.
Light Bot
Light Bot is a good introduction to the world of programming. Your job is to light up all the blue tiles in the factory by commands you issue to the light-bot.
Explorer Research
Use the follwing websites to learn about the explorers Marco Polo, Henry the Navigator, and the Vikings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/namerica.shtml
http://mrnussbaum.com/explorersflash/
Everyday Math Games
Today you will finish and print your graphs. After you have completed that activity you will use three games from the Everyday Math Games: Basketball Multiplication, Basketball Addition, and Penny Cup.
Ten Frame Addition
Today you will use the website Illuminations, Ten Frame to practice your addition using a ten frame model. Click the picture below to get to the website. If you finish early, watch this Brainpop about rocks.
Skype with an Economist
Today we will be Skyping with Assistant Professor Lisa Schulkind, from Trinity College. She will talk about microfinancing with us, so we may have a better understanding of the process as we begin our Kiva project.
Tar Beach
After reading the book Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold, you drew and painted a multi-layered city in Art. Take a picture of your cityscape with your iPad. Next you will draw yourself in a flying position in the app SketchbookX. Using the Keynote app, you will animate yourself flying over your imported city, just as the main character does in the book. Download the figure template here. When you are done upload the finished product to Google Drive and share it with me.
Flying from Heights Elementary School on Vimeo.
Giraffes Can’t Dance
After reading the book Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andred, in Art, you drew a giraffe concentrating on big shapes. You colored the giraffes using yellow or orange then added spots and marks using a brown or black marker, then cut out your creation. Next you created the background, using a double loaded brush technique and an etching technique for the grass. To add a technology component to the project, you will use the animation app Doink to make your giraffe dance. Next we will video you describing what you like about the project. We will create an Augmented Reality trigger from your original artwork. Patrons of the annual Art Show will be able to scan your giraffe to view the animation and video. Click to giraffe below to see the animation.
Kiva Project
We will begin our Kiva Project by researching information about the country of the entrepreneur from Kiva that you wish to sponsor. Next you will begin to create an i-Movie presentation which will hopefully persuade your classmates to vote for your entrepreneur. Below are the steps to creating your presentation. Use our Kiva wikispace for resources.
1. Research and chose your entrepreneur
2. Storyboard your persuasive writing
3. Collect pictures for your presentation
4. Place pictures on the i-Movie timeline
5. Record your voice and synch with pictures
6. Create a credits page
7. Add transitions
8. Add background music
Purpy’s Shapes
Today we will learn all about shapes and where to find them in our environment. Click on the picture below to help Purpy find shapes.
Self Portrait
Introduction to Google Drive
Today we will learn how to use your sharonschools.net Google account. We will review the terms of use. Next we will set up your shared folders in your drive account, so that you will be sharing all your work with your teacher. We will also upload a file from your network save so that you can work at home on it.
Boost Your Keyboarding Skills
today we will learn how to use the software Type to Learn 4. You will be able to use the program at home to practice your keyboarding skills, too.
Introduction to Word
We will put your new keyboarding skills to work today by keying in one of your writing prompts. First, we will learn how to put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word. We will learn how to Center a title, use the First Line Indent, and Line Spacing to double space. Next week we will learn how to use Spelling and Grammar check and format your fonts. Finally we will learn to add a picture to your document.
Thanksgiving Senses Poem
Today you will key in your Thanksgiving senses poem into Word. We will review how to use the Header, use Alignment and Spacing, format the font, spell and grammar check, add a picture and put a border on your page.
If you are done early, visit The First Thanksgiving.
Verbs of Steel
Let’s look for synonyms for commonly used verbs like “walk” to make our writing more descriptive and interesting. After discovering 10 synonyms, we will draw the word in Drawing Pad, then import it into WordPhoto. We will type in our ten alternate “verbs of steel” to form a lovely word cloud.
October Prompt
Today you will begin to key in your October writing prompt in Word. You will save it in the network save folder then learn how to upload it to your ELA shared folder in Google Drive, so you can finish the document at home.
Todo Math
Today we will be working with the iPads to practice writing numbers, counting, and ten frame addition.
We will use the app Todo Math.
Grade 5 Historical Timeline
Ms. Douglas has given you a list of dates and famous events in mixed up order. Put them in the correct order and create a timeline using Timeliner software.
Verb Poem
Today we will use Stationery Studio to publish your verb poems. Choose a piece of stationery that fits your poem then type in the poem.
Guess the Covered Word
Today will will be working in your classroom with the iPads and the FlashCard+ app. You will work with a partner taking turns reading the sentence and guessing the word. Flip the flashcard to see if you got it right.
I Am Wild!
Today you will create yourself as a wild creature using the website Build Yourself Wild. Click on the picture below to get to the site. You will save your picture and insert it into a Word document template. Use the word bank to help you type a few sentences about your creature.
Graphing Food Drive Results
Today we will learn how to use Microsoft Excel to create a graph which shows the results of your food drive.
Halloween Math and More
Today is Halloween! Use the following websites to practice your math and finally carve a pumpkin for Halloween.
Halloween Math
Spooky Sequence
Carve a Pumpkin
Energy Guide
Today you will be creating a study guide on Energy in preparation for your test. Use the following websites to find pictures to use in your guide.
Wikimedia Commons
Pic4Learning
Imagebase
Morguefiles
Photos8
Public Domain Photos
Wonder Precepts
Today we will review the formatting features in Mcrosoft Word. You will choose a precept from the book Wonder, explain what it means, and write about how you live it or someone you know lives it.
Continent Slideshow
Today we will use the iPad app Haiku Deck to create a slideshow from the informational text you read about a continent.
Antarctica from mshapiro
Multiple Intelligences Glog
You have been learning about Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences in class. Use GlogsterEdu to create a digital poster which represents the intelligences.
Explode a Word
Let’s look for synonyms for commonly used words like “good” and “said” to make our writing more descriptive and interesting. After discovering 10 synonyms, we will draw the word in Drawing Pad, then import it into WordPhoto. We will type in our ten alternate words to form a lovely word cloud.
Field Trip Movie
Let’s make a movie based on your field trip to Ward’s Berry Farm! Today we will use the app Drawing Pad to create a picture of something you learned about at the farm. We will put all the pictures in the app Explain Everything and record our voices describing our picture. Finally we will turn all our slides into a movie for all to enjoy.
States of Matter Animation
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
Formatting Word Documents
Today you will be keying in a short writing piece. We will review some of the formatting features in Word such as how to create a heading, center a title, indent a paragraph, double-space a document, and spellcheck.
Math Mountains
Today we will work in the classroom using iPads and the app Drawing Pad to create a math story using number models and math mountains.
Fall Number Boxes
Today we will use KidPix to fill in the boxes with the correct number of Fall stamps.
If you are done early, play the game Topit.
Intro to Google Drive
Today we will learn how to use your sharonschools.net Google account. We will review the terms of use. Next we will set up your shared folders in your drive account, so that you will be sharing all your work with your teacher. We will also upload a file from your network save so that you can work at home on it.
Rhyming Families
Today we will learn some of the tools in KidPix to create a picture of two words in the same rhyming family.
Fall
Apples, Halloween, colored leaves in piles, and pumpkins. It must be Fall! Today you will be introduced to the tools in Kidpix to draw a picture of Fall.
If you are done early, Carve a Pumpkin!
Famous Immigrant Slide
Today you will create a slide in Powerpoint based upon your research of a famous immigrant. Include the following information on your slide:
- Name of immigrant
- Picture
- Where/when born
- Why came to us
- Where settled
- Job
- Contributions
Characteristics of a Scarecrow
You have drawn and cut out a scarecrow in your classroom and added much detail to it. Today we will use Kidspiration to create a graphic organizer of the inside and outside characteristics of your scarecrow. Try to include a simile about each characteristic. You will take a picture of your scarecrow to include in your document. Finally you will use the graphic organizer to guide you with writing a paragraph about its characteristics. If you are done early go to the Little Critter’s Scarecrow Game.
Massachusetts Map
Since you have been studying all about Massachusetts, it landforms, bodies of water, and major cities, today we will create a map in KidPix, complete with a legend and a compass rose.
Leaves for Our Class Tree
Today we will create a leaf in KidPix to add to our classroom tree.
Type to Learn 4
To complement your keyboarding lessons in the classroom, today we will learn how to use the software Type to Learn 4. You will be able to use the program at home to practice your keyboarding skills, too.
Everyday Math Games
Today you will use three games from the Everyday Math Games: Basketball Multiplication, Basketball Addition, and Penny Cup. You will also watch two movies in Brainpop, Jr. Click below to get to the movies.
Potential and Kinetic Energy Animation
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Tour the Continents
Play some geography games to help you learn where the continents on Earth are located.
World Continents
Geogame: Build Planet Earth
Next, you will learn how to use the placemark feature in Google Earth. Select a pushpin for each of the seven continents. Choose a different color pushpin and mark the countries in North America.
Responsible Use Policy
Today we will spend some time reviewing Sharon Public School’s Responsible Use Policy and discussing internet safety and cyberbullying. After some work at the IWB we will return to our seats to take an internet safety quiz from the Brainpop movie.
Click the picture below to get to the quiz.
Introduction to Google Earth
To enhance your studies of continents and rivers, we will explore Google Earth. We will fly around the globe, visiting key sites as we learn to navigate in a 3-D environment.
Counting Money
Today we will work in the classroom with iPads and use the app Counting Bills and Coins to practice counting money, solving word problems with money, and using different combinations of coins to show the same amount of money.
Responsible Use Policy
Today we will spend some time reviewing Sharon Public School’s Responsible Use Policy and discussing internet safety, cyberbullying, and copyright rules. After some work at the IWB we will return to our seats to watch two Brainpop movies and take the associated quiz. Click the pictures below to get to the movies.
Bio Poem
Today we will review some of the formatting features in Microsoft Word, so you can begin to key in your Bio Poem. We’ll review how to set up a heading, Alignment and Spacing, formatting text, and Spellcheck. You also learn how to use Photobooth to take a picture yourself, which can be placed in the poem.
Login Card
Create a card in Kid Pix that has your name and login details. Decorate with stickers and fill colors. Once finished, you will print and cut & glue to an index card in class. The next time you login you can use your newly created login card.
Technology Update 2013
We are very excited to start the new year with wonderful, new equipment. We purchased 26 MacBook air laptops for our two mobile labs. We also added additional iPads bringing our total up to 28. Teachers received a Ladibug document camera for their classroom, too.
Number Lines
In math you have been learning how a number line can help you add and subtract. Today we will work in your classroom with the iPads and the app Teaching Number Lines to practice sequencing, jumping forward and jumping backwards on a number line.
Ellis Island Tour
Using the iPads, you will learn about Ellis Island, the place where over 12 million immigrants passed through in search of a better life. The Interactive Ellis Island Tour is rich in audio files and photographs. Use the document Ellis Island Tour to take notes while you read each web page carefully and click on the audio and photo links. Click on the picture of the Statue of Liberty to take you to the website. If you are done early watch the Brainpop movie on immigration and take the graded quiz.
International Dot Day
In celebration of International Dot Day, after reading The Dot, by Peter Reynolds, we will make our mark using the iPads and the app Drawing Pad.
Introduction to the Computer Lab
Today we will get our assigned seats in the computer lab. We will learn the rules of the lab and how to sign into the computers.
If time allows, practice using the mouse by visiting the website Bees and Honey. Click on the bee.
Skype with Our Friends in Maryland
Today we will Skype with the class that is hosting our Flat Stanley. We have their Flat Stanley below and have created a book of his adventures. In turn they have created a movie of our Flat Stanley’s adventures in Maryland. See our collaboration wiki here.
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Keyboarding Practice
Today you will use Type To Learn to practice your keyboarding skills.
Life Cycle of a Frog
Your frogs have arrived! Today you will begin to create a KidPix slide show of their life cycle. You will draw each of the stages in a separate document and add music. Next, we will learn how to put the drawings together into a slide show.
To learn more about frogs visit All About Frogs
Animal Word Cloud
Today you will use the results of your research to create a word cloud for your animal. We will use
to create the Word cloud. Next we will insert the word cloud and a picture of your animal into Word.
Skype with Rwanda
We have been exchanging information with our friends from Rwinkwavu, Rwanda, and today we will meet them during a Skype call!
Million Dollar Project
Today you will continue to work on researching information for the How to Spend a Million Dollars Project. Enter your information in the Google Drive workbook we set up in class last week. Today you will learn how to create a formula that lets you link the sums on each of your sheets to the overview sheet, so you can keep track of what you have spent so far.
Poetry Anthology
Use Microsoft Word to type in your poems for your anthology.
Massachusetts Word Cloud
Today you will creates a word cloud in the shape of Massachusetts in Powerpoint. Use the map as a slide background in Powerpoint and text boxes to fill in the shape.
Tessellations
Today you will use the paint tools in Appleworks paint to create an original tessellation. We will translate a square many times until we achieve a unique tessellation. This lesson is based on Suzanne Alejandre’s great work at the Math Forum.
Try these websites at home for fun activities with tessellations.
Weather Glog
Today you will begin to create a Glog on your chosen weather phenomenon. Include three pictures, a short paragraph and several bullets to explain the meteorological phenomenon.
Weather Research
Use the following websites to help you collect information for your weather topic.
Weather Whiz Kids
Weather Web for Kids
Treehouse Weather Kids
Discovery Kids Weather
The Weather Channel Kids
You may also use the Britannica Online and Brainpop sites for further information.
If time allows start to gather pictures from Wikimedia Commons for your weather glog.
Geometry Scavenger Hunt
Today we will use the iPads to take pictures of geometry shapes in the real world- our classroom. We will use the app Pic Collage to create a collage of our shapes. Use the pencil tool to outline the shape and then label it with the text tool. We’ll save it and put everyone’s together into a Shape Book.
State Glog
Today you will begin to create a glog using the information you have researched about your state. Maps and flags are in the group folder. Check Wikimedia Commons for other images. Include the following on your glog:
1. State Name
2. State Flag
3. A map
4. Three famous people
5. Three tourist attractions
6. Three basic facts
7. Date entered statehood and number
State Research
Today you will spend most of the period gathering information for your State Report. Use the following websites to help you.
During the last fifteen minutes of the class use the following websites to practice your knowledge of state capitals and locations. Use the games at home to help you learn the capitals!
Simple Machines Web
Use Kidspiration to create a graphic organizer of six simple machines complete with definition and three examples.
MCAS Math Practice
This week you will take the fourth grade math test that the state of Texas gives their students at the end of the year. The test will give you practice for your exam and will also let your teacher know about the areas in math she may need to review with you. The test is online and you can score it instantly. Click on the link below and enter your first name only.
Solar System Slideshow
You’ve done your research and now you are ready to put it all together in a PowerPoint slide show. You will learn how to add pictures, custom animations and transitions to create a show to present to your class.
Planet Slideshow
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Planet Glog
Today you will begin to gather pictures and assemble your Planet and Solar System Glog, using GlogsterEDU.
Biography Powerpoint
You have completed your research on a famous person from Massachusetts. Today we will begin to organize the research into a Powerpoint presentation. You learn how to add bulleted lists, pictures, animations, and slide transitions.
Tree Observation Slideshow
We will use Kidpix to illustrate and annotate your continuing tree observations through the seasons. After the four drawings and observations are completes, we will gather them into a slideshow.
Simple Machines Glog
Grab the digital cameras and photograph simple machines around the building! You will use the photos to create a Glog in Glogster complete with definitions.
Use these websites to help you:
Building Boats
Your STEM Day Challenge is to build a boat that will hold at least 25 pennies without sinking. Below are resources to help you with the research portion of the design process.
Question: Why do boats float?
Information to Read
Information to Watch
Why boats float (created by two kids)
Rubberband Cars
Your STEM Day Challenge is to build a rubber band car that will travel at least one meter. Below are resources to help you with the research portion of the design process.
Question: How do you make a rubber band powered car?
Information to Read
1. Mr. Rob Hafernik, an engineer, explains how
2. Step by step directions with several photos
3. Wooden rubber band car instructions
4. Another set of step by step directions with photos
5. PBS Kids Design Squad instructions
Information to Watch
How to make a car that runs on old CDs (explained by kids)
Biography Project Research
Today we will begin research for your biography project. Use the following websites to gather information about your person.
Britannica Online
Famous Massachusetts People
Massachusetts:Famous Bay Staters
Famous People From Massachusetts
Famous People of Massachusetts
Animal Slideshow
Today you will begin to create an Animal PowerPoint slideshow based upon the information you collected during your research sessions in the lab.
Solar System Research
Today you will use the websites Astronomy for Kids, Zoom Astronomy, and Star Child to begin collecting information about your planet. You may also watch the Brainpop movie clip for your planet. Click on the pictures below to go to the websites.
Deborah Sampson Pargraph
Today you will type your paragraph about the life of Deborah Sampson in Microsoft Word.
Tessellations
Today you will use the paint tools in Appleworks paint to create an original tessellation. We will translate a square many times until we achieve a unique tessellation. This lesson is based on Suzanne Alejandre’s great work at the Math Forum.
Try these websites at home for fun activities with tessellations.
Field Trip Movie
You had a successful field trip to the Discovery Museum! This week we will record your paragraphs about a station at the museum and create a movie about your field trip.
Potential and Kinetic Energy Animation
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Volcanoes!
To complement your Rocks and Minerals unit, we will explore how the inside of a volcano looks. Draw a cross section of a volcano in Kid Pix, then color and label each important feature.
Learn more about volcanoes by visiting the following website.
Colonial Life
After you finish your Paul Revere acrostic, visit the websites below to learn about life during colonial times and then. Massachusetts today.
http://www.history.org/kids/
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/ciskid/kididx.htm
Letter To Our Penpals
Van Gogh Chairs- QR Codes
You’ve recorded your podcast and today it is time to generate a QR code for it, so that people at the art show can listen to it on their smart phones. Head to the website where the artcasts are stored. Copy and paste the URL from your webpage into a QR code generator , test the code with your iPads, and print the code. Pencil in your name on the printout, so Mrs. Mellman knows which one is yours. The code will be displayed on the artwork that is in the show.
Introduction to Google Earth
Today we will learn how to use Google Earth. We will find the location of your vacation spot and save a picture to add to your story.
Planet and Solar System Slideshow
You’ve done your research and now you are ready to put it all together in a PowerPoint slide show. You will learn how to search for and download pictures from the NASA website, add custom animations, and transitions to create a show to present to your class.
Planet Slideshow
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Paul Revere Acrostic
Today you will create an acrostic with the name Paul Revere. Use Word Art for the name and text boxes for the phrases. Add a picture and place a border around the page.
Animal Research
Today you will begin your animal research. Click on the links below to begin your research.
Reading Maps
Today we will watch the Brainpop, Jr. movie on Reading Maps. We will take the easy and hard quizzes with the Activotes. If time allows, we will use the following website to reinforce your map skills.
Landscapes
Powerpoint Book Reports
You have read your book and filled in your storyboard, so today we will set up your Powerpoint slideshow for your book report and populate it with pictures and text.
Tall Tales
Today will type in your Tall Tale project. We will learn how to make columns so that you can create a long tall tale! We will also illustrate your tall tale by creating a picture in Kid Pix.
Solar System Research
Today you will use the websites Astronomy for Kids, Zoom Astronomy, and Star Child to begin collecting information about your planet. You may also watch the Brainpop movie clip for your planet. Click on the pictures below to go to the websites.
Skype with British Columbia
Today we will meet our Alien Exchange partners from Bear Creek Elementary in Surrey, British Columbia during a Skype session. Each group will get a chance to comment on the drawings and we will ask several questions of our partners. See the Alien Exchange wiki here.
Meet Heights Movie
Today we will work on the Meet Heights movie for our Alien Exchange partners in British Columbia. You can view it at the Alien Exchange website when it is complete.
Jamestown
Use the websites below to enhance your understanding of the Jamestown colony.
The Jamestown Online Adventure
On the Trail of Captain John Smith
Biography Powerpoint
Today we will set up your Biography Powerpoint presentation. Download a picture of your person. Include the following information on your slides.
1. Title Page with picture
2. Personal Background- major events in person’s life
3. Personality Traits
4. Significance- Why was this person important
5. Obstacles
6. Important Quote
7. Credits
We will use the iPads and the app FaceTalk to creatae your person speaking the quote. We will then insert the movie into the quote slide. Click to see my example below.
https://heightstechnology.edublogs.org/files/2013/03/IMG_0133-12afg17.mov
Everyday Math Games
Today you will use the following Everyday Math games to enhance your math curriculum.
Tens and Ones Trading Game
Number Grid Game
Top It
Penny Cup
Transliteracy: Van Gogh’s Chairs and QR codes
Based on a project by Sylvia Tolisano we will be working on an art, ELA, and technology project over then next few weeks.
- After learning about Van Gogh’s chairs, from Mrs. Mellman in Art, you drew a chair that represented you and things important to you
- Next you will write a script with Mrs. Hanley describing your chairs and the choices you made
- We will type the script in Microsoft Word
- Then we will use Garageband to podcast the script
- Finally, we will create a QR code which will be posted on your picture at the Art Show for all to see and listen to
Black History Magazine Cover
Today you will use Big Huge Labs to create a magazine cover of the famous African-American which you have researched. Find a picture of the person on the Internet and download it into your Network Save folder. Then upload the picture to Big Huge Labs and enter the information you included on your template.
Light Energy
Today you will use the iPads to take pictures as you perform your light energy science experiments. Later, Choose one experiment to focus on and import the pictures into Explain Everything. Annotate and voiceover what is going on in the pictures to explain what you have learned.
About the Author
Today you will key in your About the Author paragraphs in Microsoft Word for the Author’s Breakfast. You will learn how to take a picture of yourself in Photobooth and insert it into your author blurb.
World Math Day
Self Portrait Animation
Today you will create a self portrait in Animation-ish. After tracing an imported picture of yourself for the background, you will animate an object that speaks to one of your interests.
Biography Powerpoint
Today we will begin to create a Powerpoint presentation based on the biography you read of a famous person from Massachusetts. You learn how to add bulleted lists, pictures, animations, and slide transitions.
Cat in the Hat-i-fy Yourself
Today we will work in Microsoft Word to create a bookmark for Read Across America Day. We will turn ourselves into the Cat in the Hat!
Flat Stanley in Maryland
Today we will be meeting in your room to learn about our companion class from Triadelphia Elementary School in Maryland and to write a letter on the wiki introducing ourselves to them. Next we’ll dress (decorate) our Flat Stanley in Massachusetts garb and send him on his way. We’ll be following his adventures at our Flat Stanley Wikispace. When the Maryland Flat Stanley arrives we will take him all over Sharon and record his adventures in Sharon.
Landforms and Waterways
Today we will begin our iPad Explain Everything Project on landforms and waterways in the United States. Show what you have learned by creating a movie of two landforms and two waterways in the U.S. Include a definition and title and use screencasting techniques to enhance your audio presentation.
Gallery of the Gods
Use the website below to learn about Roman Gods and Goddesses. You will be writing a short script introducing your god and describing his myth. Download a picture of your god, too. We will use Face Talk on the iPads to record your information and collect them all into a God Gallery. Click the picture of Cupid to see my sample.
Information about Roman Gods
Roman God Clip Art
Skype with Our Whangdoodle Buddies
Today we will finally get to meet our Whangdoodle buddies. After blogging with them and participating in the Whandoodle Exchange we will Skype with them to reflect on our Whangdoodle drawings and share our daily school life with them. Visit our Whangdoodle gallery by clicking below.
Skype with Malaysia
Today we will connect with our classmate who is currently in Malaysia. We will celebrate the 100th day of school with him and learn about daily life in southeast Asia.
Heat and Temperature Webquest
Use the file link below to begin your webquest on heat and temperature.
Cat in the Hat-ify Yourself!
To help celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America Day, we will use the iPads and the SketchBookX app to create a book mark featuring you as the Cat in the Hat.
Thanks to Tricia Fulgelstad for this great idea!
Alien Descriptions
Today you will type in your Alien descriptions into Word so we can post them on our Alien Exchange website. Now the fun begins as our Hawaiian friends try to redraw our Aliens from our descriptions and vice versa!
Water Cycle Animation
Letter to Jan Brett
Today you will type your friendly letter to author Jan Brett. Use Stationery Studio to key in your letter.
http://janbrett.com/biography.htm
Cut Snowflakes Designed on an iPad
Today you will learn all about symmetry, both bilateral and radial, to design a snowflake on the iPad using My Flake. Once you are happy with your design, you will transfer the cut lines to your paper and create a beautiful tangible version of your digital design. Save your digital design to the Camera roll, too so we can display both at the Art Show.
Writing Prompt
Today we will review setting up a heading in Microsoft Word, centering, first line indent, and line spacing. Key in your writing prompt and next week we will learn how to use the spellcheck, format fonts, and add a pictures.
States of Matter Animation
Today we will create an animation illustrating how molecules behave in three states of matter. We will create our animation in Animation-ish.
State Regions Project
You will work in groups to learn about the climate, population, native people, economy, land and waterway, natural resources, animals and plants of a USA region. Below are the steps you must complete to create a movie which will serve as a teaching tool for all the groups.
- Research your region with your teammates. Use the Research Guide and sites on our Regions wiki.
- Use the storyboard guide to create a script based upon your research.
- Use the iPads to collect the pictures you need for your movie from public domain sites listed on the wiki.
- Use Explain Everything and Skitch to put together your movie. Use screencasting techniques when it helps to explain your information.
My Dream for the World
Today you will key into Word your My Dream For The World paragraph. We will learn how to download a picture from the Microsoft Office website to include in your paragraph and place the picture behind the text.
A Complete Circuit
You have a battery, copper wire, and a light bulb. Can you make a complete circuit? Use Kid Pix to draw the parts of a light bulb and then arrange a wire (or two) and a battery to illustrate a complete circuit. Label the parts of the bulb, the components of the circuit, and the critical contact points.
Visit the site below for interactive activities about electricity.
Winter Cinquain
Today you will type in your winter cinquain into Word. Then create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake to add to your poem.
Google Earth Scavenger Hunt
Follow the clues to travel around the globe to all the continents. Perform the task before you move on to the next clue and record your answer.
Respect
Take all your brainstormed words on RESPECT and type them into Word. Spellcheck your list, then put them into a Tagxedo word cloud to form a class collage.
Writing Prompt
Today you will key into Word your writing prompt. Use a proper heading in the header area, center a title, indent your paragraph, spellcheck, format your font, and add a picture to your work.
Everyday Math Games
Today we will play the Tens and Ones Trading Games and Penny Cup to help reinforce concepts learned in the classroom.
Introduction to Google Earth
To enhance your studies of continents and rivers, we will explore Google Earth. We will fly around the globe, visiting key sites as we learn to navigate in a 3-D environment.
Wish For the World
You have worked in Art to create your own four letter wish for the world based upon the work of pop artist Robert Indiana, most famous for his LOVE painting and sculpture. Today we will work in the art room and use the iPads to take a picture of your Wish for the World artwork. We’ll use Wordfoto to incorporate your writing into the drawing. Both works of art will be displayed at the Art Show in April.
My Dream For The World
Today you will create an illustration in Kid Pix which goes along with your paragraph on your dream for the world. We will record your words and put them into a class movie.
Snow Haikus
Today you will key your snow poem into Microsoft Word. Put a school heading on your page using the Header portion of Word, center a title, use the spelling and grammar check, and edit the font. You will create a snowflake at Make-A-Flake and insert it into your poem, as a picture behind the text.
Showtime!
The Kiva movies are complete! It’s time for the movie critics to rate each movie and choose their favorite. We will be using the rubric on the Kiva wiki to rate the movies. The highest rating movie will be funded. Click below to view the movies at our wiki.
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Demonstrate your knowledge of potential and kinetic energy by creating an animation in Animation-ish showing these concepts.
Snow Haiku
Today you will publish your snow haiku on Stationery Studio.
Create your own snowflake at Make-A-Flake!
Snowglobe Writing
Today you will use Stationery Studio to type your Snowglobe writing piece. Use the snowflake template to create your publication.
Money Math
Practice your money math skills with the Everyday Math money games.
Family Traditions
Today you will publish a second writing piece in MicroSoft Word. Key in your family traditions paragraph, spell checking and formatting the document. Add a picture and border to your work.
Landform Glog
Today you will use GlogsterEdu to create a glog based upon the information you have gathered about a land or water form.
Hopes and Dreams
Today you will key your Hopes and Dreams paragraph into Microsoft Word.When you complete your paragraph use the Wordle website to create a word cloud.
Money Math
You have been learning about money in math. Today you will use the computers to play the Everyday Math money games.
Type To Learn
To complement your keyboarding lessons in the classroom, today we will learn how to use the software Type to Learn. We will be using keyboard covers to cover our hands. Your goal today is to complete Lesson 1 in the software. Use the websites on the Keyboarding section of the Technology Blog to practice your keyboarding at home.