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.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
January 24-January 28
Media Literacy
Third grade students are diving in to Microsoft PowerPoint this week. They learned how to open the program last week, and saved a file with their name on it. This week, they will begin turning that file into an "All About Me" PowerPoint, with pictures of themselves and information on what they like to do. For this week, they will be putting in a picture of themselves, as well as writing an acrostic poem for their name (with a word for each letter). If you have any good pictures (digital is preferred, but prints work), please send them in so they can put them into their presentation!
Fourth and fifth grades are also working with PowerPoint this week, using it to create a presentation on the information they researched about their favorite sport. They will create a short presentation about the history of their sport, how to play it, important people or places, and activities we could do in class.
P.E.
After finishing up the dances from last week, classes will be learning the final dance in our unit: the Cha-Cha slide. This popular dance incorporates many different steps, so it should be a challenge for students, while still enjoyable. After that, Fourth and Fifth grades will have a chance to create their own dances to a specific theme or song. I look forward to seeing their creativity!
Third grade students are diving in to Microsoft PowerPoint this week. They learned how to open the program last week, and saved a file with their name on it. This week, they will begin turning that file into an "All About Me" PowerPoint, with pictures of themselves and information on what they like to do. For this week, they will be putting in a picture of themselves, as well as writing an acrostic poem for their name (with a word for each letter). If you have any good pictures (digital is preferred, but prints work), please send them in so they can put them into their presentation!
Fourth and fifth grades are also working with PowerPoint this week, using it to create a presentation on the information they researched about their favorite sport. They will create a short presentation about the history of their sport, how to play it, important people or places, and activities we could do in class.
P.E.
After finishing up the dances from last week, classes will be learning the final dance in our unit: the Cha-Cha slide. This popular dance incorporates many different steps, so it should be a challenge for students, while still enjoyable. After that, Fourth and Fifth grades will have a chance to create their own dances to a specific theme or song. I look forward to seeing their creativity!
Monday, January 17, 2011
January 17 - January 21
Hope everyone enjoyed the 3-day weekend!
Media Literacy
Well, it's back to the grind now that MAP testing is completely finished. Students in 4th and 5th grades will finish organizing their server folder, learning how to create folders, rename files, and do other file-manipulation tasks. Then, it's back to the Sports Research projects that we started earlier in the school year. We'll finish out the research on those and summarize what they found.
Third-grade students, after getting in the last few fitness test results, will be learning how to use Microsoft PowerPoint. They will begin with a simple, one-slide presentation about themselves, later branching out to more-complex tasks.
Also, classes that did not have a chance earlier in the year to hear about some great books from Sara Wall, children's librarian at the Tenino library, will be doing that this Wednesday.
P.E.
We'll be doing more dancing this week! After finishing the dances from last week, we're moving on to the Electric Slide. So far, the students have turned out to be pretty good dancers!
Media Literacy
Well, it's back to the grind now that MAP testing is completely finished. Students in 4th and 5th grades will finish organizing their server folder, learning how to create folders, rename files, and do other file-manipulation tasks. Then, it's back to the Sports Research projects that we started earlier in the school year. We'll finish out the research on those and summarize what they found.
Third-grade students, after getting in the last few fitness test results, will be learning how to use Microsoft PowerPoint. They will begin with a simple, one-slide presentation about themselves, later branching out to more-complex tasks.
Also, classes that did not have a chance earlier in the year to hear about some great books from Sara Wall, children's librarian at the Tenino library, will be doing that this Wednesday.
P.E.
We'll be doing more dancing this week! After finishing the dances from last week, we're moving on to the Electric Slide. So far, the students have turned out to be pretty good dancers!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
January 10 - January 14
We have a late start this Wednesday the 12th. School opens at 10:00, and classes start at 10:20.
Media Literacy
Media Literacy will be cut a bit short this week, due to the late start and the last stage of MAP testing on Monday and Tuesday. Classes that meet will continue on prior projects: entering their fitness test results, organizing their server folders, and working on their sports research project.
P.E.
All three grade levels are beginning the dance unit this week in PE. Third graders are beginning with some simple, but fun dances: the Hamster Dance, and the Partner Slap dance (hopefully the kids aren't disappointed that they don't actually slap their partner :-), they just clap their hands together). Fourth graders will start with Mamma Maria, which is a basic line dance, and follow up with the Cupid Shuffle, which gets slightly more complicated. Fifth graders will also be doing the Cupid Shuffle, followed by the Butterfly Waltz. It should be fun! We'll most likely be continuing to practice these next week, as it takes time to master the steps.
Media Literacy
Media Literacy will be cut a bit short this week, due to the late start and the last stage of MAP testing on Monday and Tuesday. Classes that meet will continue on prior projects: entering their fitness test results, organizing their server folders, and working on their sports research project.
P.E.
All three grade levels are beginning the dance unit this week in PE. Third graders are beginning with some simple, but fun dances: the Hamster Dance, and the Partner Slap dance (hopefully the kids aren't disappointed that they don't actually slap their partner :-), they just clap their hands together). Fourth graders will start with Mamma Maria, which is a basic line dance, and follow up with the Cupid Shuffle, which gets slightly more complicated. Fifth graders will also be doing the Cupid Shuffle, followed by the Butterfly Waltz. It should be fun! We'll most likely be continuing to practice these next week, as it takes time to master the steps.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
January 3 - January 7
Welcome back! Students will have extra PE this week, as the computer lab will be closed starting Wednesday for MAP testing.
Media Literacy
Classes that meet this week will be continuing to work on entering their fitness test results, and calculating their BMI and body fat percentage. If they have finished, they will practice their keyboarding skills.
P.E.
We'll be concluding our basketball unit this week with a set of team-based games that incorporate the basketball skills we have learned thus far. In addition to a couple more drills for shooting and passing, 3rd graders will work on the concept of positions by playing Lane Basketball, where each player has a "lane" they must remain in during the game. 4th graders will instead play Paperclip Basketball, where teams of 3 must pass the ball 3 times and shoot a basket. Successful shots lead to earning paperclips for their team; the team with the most paperclips at the end will win. 5th grade will play Freeze Out, which is similar to the game Horse. Pairs of students will compete to attempt shots from different areas. If a student misses, they receive a letter, and once they have spelled OUT, they are out. In addition to these games, all three grades will play 3-on-3 basketball, rotating through teams to give everyone a chance to play. Other team games, such as sideline basketball and the regulation version of basketball, will also be played to the extent that time allows.
Classes that have extra PE this week will be learning a few new games. Third graders will be introduced to Tucker's Land and Dino's Nest, both of which involve retrieving items from a guarded location. All three grades will learn a new tag game (continuous tag), and will participate in a relay race where they build a pattern of PE equipment based on an example at the front of the gym. Since only 1 piece can be moved at a time, and they cannot see the pattern from the place where they are creating it, they will have to make good use of their memory in order to be successful.
Media Literacy
Classes that meet this week will be continuing to work on entering their fitness test results, and calculating their BMI and body fat percentage. If they have finished, they will practice their keyboarding skills.
P.E.
We'll be concluding our basketball unit this week with a set of team-based games that incorporate the basketball skills we have learned thus far. In addition to a couple more drills for shooting and passing, 3rd graders will work on the concept of positions by playing Lane Basketball, where each player has a "lane" they must remain in during the game. 4th graders will instead play Paperclip Basketball, where teams of 3 must pass the ball 3 times and shoot a basket. Successful shots lead to earning paperclips for their team; the team with the most paperclips at the end will win. 5th grade will play Freeze Out, which is similar to the game Horse. Pairs of students will compete to attempt shots from different areas. If a student misses, they receive a letter, and once they have spelled OUT, they are out. In addition to these games, all three grades will play 3-on-3 basketball, rotating through teams to give everyone a chance to play. Other team games, such as sideline basketball and the regulation version of basketball, will also be played to the extent that time allows.
Classes that have extra PE this week will be learning a few new games. Third graders will be introduced to Tucker's Land and Dino's Nest, both of which involve retrieving items from a guarded location. All three grades will learn a new tag game (continuous tag), and will participate in a relay race where they build a pattern of PE equipment based on an example at the front of the gym. Since only 1 piece can be moved at a time, and they cannot see the pattern from the place where they are creating it, they will have to make good use of their memory in order to be successful.
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