Our last full week of school-this year has flown by! We said goodbye to old teachers and hello to new ones by emailing Jan Brett postcards ,and then enjoyed exploring the "Just for Fun" folder on ikeepbookmarks. I hope everyone has a wonderful summer break!
B1-2 Technology:
After our last week of keyboarding, we reviewed different things we could do with font and microsoft Word and even made our font rock out with Font de Music. We worked on formatting fun and a self evaluation in our tech star folder, and then uploaded our folder picture into Picnik for some photo editing fun! Be sure to check out the results at Portfolio Night.
3-4Technology:
This week students used the digital photos they took last week to make a movie with Photopeach and embed it onto their Kidblog. They had a great time watching each other's movies and leaving comments-a wonderful way to end up the year before Portfolio Night. Here is an example I made using some of the artistic, non-face pictures taken by students on the playground:
On Our Playground on PhotoPeach
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.
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.
