After our Dance Mat practice, students traveled around the Panwapa World. It was fun seeing how excited the children got "visiting" other countries, finding homes, and leaving cards for the other Panwapa kids. We used some deductive reasoning and search techniques playing the Treasure Hunt game, sorting the world into different views and looking for specific Panwapa kids that fit a given description. Finally, we watched a Panwapa video about Oleg, a Russian boy living in Siberia who packs up and moves his whole house as their family follows their reindeer in search of more food. We had some great discussions about cultural differences and similarities after viewing this. Most of the students brought their Panwapa login information home so they could play again on their own, but if not, they can easily create a new profile.
3-4 Technology:
Technology is not just computers! Today was a first for our tech lab-after watching a short Brainpop movie about taking digital pictures, we broke into groups of 3 or 4, each group with their own camera. Thanks Boosters! Students went out on the playground to take photos and experiment with different types of framing-closeups, strange viewpoints, wide angle, etx. Lots of creativity and fun. We uploaded the photos into a folder which will be used next week to create a movie to embed on our blogs.
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