Week 25 — back after a break!
Well it’s been a bit insane with snow and whatnot. We had too many snow days and now it’s 60 degrees! So what have we been up to?
The 1st and 2nd graders played iSpy last week. That was fun. This week we’re going to try to make a class comic book using Comic Life. We’ll see how that goes–I’m a little nervous! I made this class Comic Life page using the first grade pictures they took in PhotoBooth.
The third graders also started working on Comic Life last week. They are working in groups to retell a fairy tale as a comic. They just played around with it last week, learning how to use the program. Next week they will begin actually creating the comics.
The fourth grade continues to be hard at work on researching their cloud forest animals. This week some of them will hopefully be ready to begin creating the website at weebly.com. Their Inspiration documents are filled with information on their animals, so the website creation should be a fun ending to the project. Here is an example of a completed inspiration document:
The fifth graders have spent the past few tech times working on Wikispaces and completing a social studies project for Teacher Karen on voyages. They are typing up log entries and researching a voyage here in the lab. They will move into a poetry unit on wikispaces after spring break, so we are prepping for that by becoming experts on the wiki right now.
The sixth grade has embarked on a FUN project with art, science, and technology. We are working with PicoCrickets to create robots that represent inventions. They are building and programming their robots in science, bringing them to life in art, and filming and making a video about their experience in technology, while also researching their inventions and writing about them for a final project. It’s overwhelming but fun. More on that to come!
Tags: comiclife, inspiration, picocricket, weebly, wikispaces
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