January 31 - February 4

Media Literacy

Our projects from last week will continue this week. Third-graders are making excellent progress with their All About Me PowerPoint projects! They have already learned how to add slides, change backgrounds, and add pictures. This week, they'll be learning how to further customize their presentation with different fonts, custom color schemes, and animations.
Fourth- and fifth-graders are continuing their sports research projects, finishing up their notes and starting their PowerPoints this week if they haven't yet. Once started, they will have a chance to add pictures, backgrounds, and other elements to their PowerPoints.

P.E.

Our dance unit is coming to a close this week. Third and fourth grade students will be working on group activities to come up with dance steps for certain songs. Fifth grade students are completing a state dance assessment (known as a CBA, or Curriculum-Based Assessment) where they must choreograph and perform a short dance based on 2 different types of weather. Their performances will be graded according to a rubric that is reviewed with the students. Both of these activities will give students a chance to show their creativity and ingenuity in coming up with different ways to move to suit a specific song or theme.