Monday, March 4, 2019
Specials Expedition Logos
During the Specials Expedition the students are asked to create a logo for their Dance group that will represent their group. Everyone in the group creates a logo and then pitches their design to the group. One of the group's logo design is then chosen to represent their group. We discuss hidden meanings and different design principles that are used when working in this field. We had some pretty creative logo designs created this year.
The Latest Happenings in Technology
Catching up on What's Been Happening in Technology....
Kindergarten has been working in an iPad app called Educreations. This app allows them to take a picture of their work and then record themselves explaining their thinking. Our first time using this tool we described features of our Monsters. The next time we talked about the 5 food groups - foods we like in these groups.
1st Grade used powerpoint to create a book. We used the book Press Here by Herve Tullet as a mentor text. The students were introduced to a couple of tech skills: text box, typing, creating shapes, copy and pasting, and how to manipulate the shapes size and color. Below are a couple of examples of some Books created: The students needed to create a storyboard before they worked on powerpoint to create their book, and unfortunately we had to print in B&W, so we missed the colors they added. There were so many amazing books created.
Student 1 Example
Student 2 Example
2nd Grade made paper airplanes as part of an unplugged coding activity to relate the concept of Algorithms back to everyday activities. The had to follow the directions given by their partner to create their airplanes. It was lots of fun getting to see them fly!
4th Grade worked on a Unit called My Ozobot's Travels: They worked in groups of 4-5 students to create a story about traveling and visiting interesting places in the United States for their Ozobot. Students worked on research, geography, collaboration, and coding a robot skills.
Kindergarten has been working in an iPad app called Educreations. This app allows them to take a picture of their work and then record themselves explaining their thinking. Our first time using this tool we described features of our Monsters. The next time we talked about the 5 food groups - foods we like in these groups.
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1st Grade used powerpoint to create a book. We used the book Press Here by Herve Tullet as a mentor text. The students were introduced to a couple of tech skills: text box, typing, creating shapes, copy and pasting, and how to manipulate the shapes size and color. Below are a couple of examples of some Books created: The students needed to create a storyboard before they worked on powerpoint to create their book, and unfortunately we had to print in B&W, so we missed the colors they added. There were so many amazing books created.
Student 1 Example
Student 2 Example
2nd Grade made paper airplanes as part of an unplugged coding activity to relate the concept of Algorithms back to everyday activities. The had to follow the directions given by their partner to create their airplanes. It was lots of fun getting to see them fly!
4th Grade worked on a Unit called My Ozobot's Travels: They worked in groups of 4-5 students to create a story about traveling and visiting interesting places in the United States for their Ozobot. Students worked on research, geography, collaboration, and coding a robot skills.
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