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.
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Skype with an Economist
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
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
Thanksgiving Senses Poem
Verbs of Steel
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
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
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!
Graphing Food Drive Results
Halloween Math and More
Today is Halloween! Use the following websites to practice your math and finally carve a pumpkin for Halloween.
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
Continent Slideshow
Today we will use the iPad app Haiku Deck to create a slideshow from the informational text you read about a continent.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
Leaves for Our Class Tree
Everyday Math Games
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.
Introduction to Google Earth
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
Technology Update 2013
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
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Animal Word Cloud
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Skype with Malaysia
Heat and Temperature Webquest
Use the file link below to begin your webquest on heat and temperature.
Cat in the Hat-ify Yourself!
Water Cycle Animation
Letter to Jan Brett
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.
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.
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.
Google Earth Scavenger Hunt
Respect
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
Introduction to Google Earth
My Dream For The World
Showtime!
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
Money Math
Practice your money math skills with the Everyday Math money games.
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
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.
Persuasive Writing
Today you will use Microsoft Word to write your persuasive writing assignment.
Light Bot
Famous Immigrant Research
Today you will research and gather information for your famous immigrant Powerpoint slide. We will combine the slides and play the show at the International Feast. Use the resources below as well as Britannica Online.
Famous Immigrants
Famous American Immigrants
Fact Monster
InfoBits
Light and Shadows
Today we will view the Brainpop,jr. movie on Light. We will learn how to use the Activotes to take the Easy and Hard Quizzes. You will also explore the BBC science clip on Light and Dark at your computer.
Internet Safety
Food Chain
Skype with an Economist
Animal Newsletter
Today you will continue to work on the animal newsletter you started in science class with Mrs. Leary.
Thanksgiving Activity
Animal Powerpoint
Using the information that you have collected over the last few weeks, you will create a Powerpoint slideshow, complete with pictures, animations, sound, and transitions.
Bugscope!
Our day has finally arrived for the Bugscope project! We will connect to the scanning electron microscope at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to examine the honey bee, an important plant pollinator. During our Bugscope session, we will control the microscope as we examine the insect at incredible magnifications. Have your questions ready because we will chat with the scientists during our session.
Thanksgiving Senses Poem
Money Math
Fall Activity Graph
Life Cycle of a Mealworm
Today we will create a Life Cycle Of A Mealworm drawing in KidPix. We will review how to use the pencil, circle, fill bucket, eraser, text tool and the undo guy.
Click on the Group folder (it says your teacher’s name) on your dock. Double click on the Meal Worm.kpx empty template and begin your drawing.
Double Bar Graphs
Fall Poem
Use Microsoft Word to publish your Fall poem. Add a picture and a border around your page.
Pumpkin, Pumpkin
Graphing Survey Results
Geometry Glog
Let’s grab the digital cameras and find objects around the school that represent different geometry terms. We will then create a Glog at GlogsterEDU describing which term is shown in the picture. Give a definition of the term as well. You will create two Glogs and link them since you will need extra space for 12-15 pictures.
Plant Parts Scavenger Hunt
Let’s take advantage of the last few days of warm weather and go outside with the digital cameras in search of plant parts. Your group will be looking for and photographing roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, and seeds. Brainstorm with your group the function of each of the parts. In the lab we will use iPhoto to create a book with the pictures.
Self Portraits
Animal Research
Use the Livebinder below to help you collect information for your Animal Research Project.
Math Games
Introduction to Google Drive
Introduction to Laptops
Today we will work in your classroom to learn how to handle, setup, and use laptops.
Verbs of Steel
Multiple Intelligences
Math Practice
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.
Citizenship Tagxedo
Today you will key in your paragraph about what it means to be a good citizen into Word. Next we will create a word cloud using Tagxedo.
Hopes and Dreams For the Coming Year
Today you will key in your writing piece on your hopes and dreams for the coming school year in Microsoft Word. We will review how to use header and footer, tabs, alignment and spacing, first line indent and spelling and grammar check.
Technology Update 2012
Letter to a Fourth Grade Student
Today you will key into Word your letter to a future fifth grade students, explaining what they can expect next year.
Letter To My Fifth Grade Teacher
Today you will key into Word your letter to your next year’s fifth grade teacher.
Open House for Parents
Today your parents are invited in for an Open House! Show them all the wonderful projects and some of your favorite learning games at your computers.
Yearbook Entries
Today you will work on your entry for the Room 114 yearbook. We will take a picture in Photobooth and add it to the template Ms. Jones has created for you in Microsoft Word and placed in the group folder.
Biome Podcasts
You will create a podcast, using Garageband, with your group on the biome that you have been researching.
1. Create an engaging script with an introduction and conclusion.
2. Collect pictures to enhance your script.
3. Include the following elements in your podcast.
- Title page with a picture, name of the biome, group members’ names
- Location, climate, and terrain
- Animals of biome
- Animal adaptations
- Plants of biome
- Plant adaptations
- Typical food chain for biome
- Sources
4. Record and edit your section of the podcast in Garageband and export as an mp3
5. Import all the mp3 into one podcast and add pictures and music
Use the Live Binder below to help with your research.
Forces in Motion
Today we will watch a Brainpop, Jr. movie on Pushes and Pulls. We’ll take the quiz with the activotes, too. If there is time we will return to the computers to play the games below.
Fractions!
Today we will clean up any projects that need to be completed and also spend some time with the fraction games below.
Flat Stanley Skype with Hawaii
Introduction to Garageband
Symbaloo Math Site
Food Chain
Today you will create a web in Kidspiration detailing the food chain of your chosen animal. If you are done early you may visit the websites below the picture.
What Living Things Need and The Food Chain
Math Practice
Bugscope!
Our day has finally arrived for the Bugscope project! We will connect to the scanning electron microscope at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to examine the honey bee, an important plant pollinator. During our Bugscope session, we will control the microscope as we examine the insect at incredible magnifications. Have your questions ready because we will chat with the scientists during our session.
Skype with Our Hawaiian Friends
Flat Stanley Google Earth Tour
Erosion Animation
Flip Cameras!
Animal Acrostic
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 4. Three famous people
2. State Flag 5. Three tourist attractions
3. A map 6. Three basic facts
7. Date entered statehood and number
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.
Water Cycle Animation
Create an animation of the water cycle using Animationish. Use Advanced-ish and create a background which includes all the necessary ingredients to begin the cycle. Switched to the foreground and animate the different stages of the cycle ending with accumulation.
AfterSchool Snack Graph
Me On The Map
Create a slideshow that shows where you are in your neighborhood, town, state, country, continent, and planet. Each week you’ll work on one or more pages in Kid Pix. When finished, put the pages together to make a slideshow. Click the picture below for a sample of what a finished project will look like.
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 Slideshow
Grab the digital cameras and photograph simple machines around the building! You will use the photos to create Powerpoint slideshow on simple machines. Include a definition on each of the slides.
Resource websites
MIKids.com
Simple Machines
The Elements of Simple Machines
Shape Art
Explore the Shapes software and see what kind of picture or design you can make using the polygons. You’ll learn how to flip, rotate, and change the color of the shapes. Try the Pattern Block puzzles if you have extra time.
Here are a few websites to try at home:
2D Shapes
I Spy Shapes
Pattern Blocks
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.
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 into a QR code generator and print the code. The code will be displayed on the artwork that is in the show.
Self Portrait Animation
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.