April 17

Friday, April 28, 2017
Fourth and Fifth grade:

• Students spent time keyboarding on Typing.com
• Keyboarding Without Tears no longer worked for fifth grade
• We'll try again another time
• Fifth graders are working toward 20 words per minute
• They earned Dojo points
• Spent the last few minutes of class exploring pre-approved web pages

Thursday, April 27, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Reviewed standards for bridge
• Viewed a youtube video about how other students built a bridge
• Set time limit and ounces for sustainable weight
• Began engineering their bridge
• Earned Dojo points
• Earned free time

Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Set standards for Straw Bridge
• Began to collect supplies
• Earned Dojo points
• Spent Dojo points on Free time

Fourth grade:

• Worked on music theory
• We accessed Doc Hub
• We editedour document
• Earned Dojo points
• Spent Dojo points on Free time

Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Earned Dojo party
• Full forty  minutes of free time on pre-approved web sites
• Monitored carefully by staff

Fourth grade:

• continued work on Music Theory creating rhythms
• earned Dojo points

Monday, April 24, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Began a "Straw Bridge" project
• Observed other's products with similar supplies
• Created a blueprint projecting what each envisions
• Created a screenshot of image
• Uploaded image to Google Sides
• Earned Dojo points, which in turn earned them free time

Fourth grade:

• Earned Dojo party on their own devices or school devices
• They explored pre-approved web sites

Friday, April 21, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Reviewed grades for Reflection Piece
• Received our Blueprint/drawings of initial Box Car goal
• Accessed Keyboarding Without Tears account
• Practiced keeping our hands on homerow and sitting up straight
• Observed our progress:
  
• Earned Dojo points

Fourth grade:

• Accessed Keyboarding Without Tears
• Resumed the account from last class
• Earned Dojo points for sitting up straight and keeping both hands on home row
• Earned free time for the last few minutes of class

Thursday, April 20, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Finished Google Slide reflection project
• Inserted their video of their Box car on their project
• Submitted their assignment
• Earned Dojo points
• Earned free time at the end of class

Fourth grade:

• Played a virtual piano, reinforcing the beats and knowledge base of Treble Clef.
• Earned Dojo points
• Earned free time at the end of class

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

• Finished engineering their cars.
• Raced their cars
• Recorded distance gone
• Recorded "warm/positive" and "cool/suggestion" comments about peer's car
• Earned Dojo points
• Earned free time at the end of class

Fourth grade:

• Understanding the tempo/beat of a song we played a game:
• Don't forget your number don't forget your name
• Students had to keep the beat to keep their "seat."
• Earned Dojo pionts
• Earned free time at the end of class

Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Finished engineering their cars.
• Raced their cars
• Recorded distance gone
• Recorded "warm/positive" and "cool/suggestion" comments about peer's car
• Earned Dojo points
• Earned free time at the end of class

Fifth grade:

• Finished engineering their cars.
• Raced their cars
• Recorded distance gone
• Recorded "warm/positive" and "cool/suggestion" comments about peer's car
• Earned Dojo points

Fourth grade:

• Played Treble Clef games.
• Earned Dojo points

Monday, April 17, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Students weighed their cars
• Posted weights on Google Sheets
• Finished engineering their cars for tomorrow's race
• Predicted who's car would go the farthest.
• We earned Dojo points for free time.

Fourth grade:

• Students reviewed understanding of Treble Clef
• We got the keyboard out listened to the higher and lower pitches
• We worked on the online workbook of Music Theory
• We earned Dojo points for free time.

Friday:
Mrs. V was gone.

Thursday, April 13, 2017
Fifth grade:
We converted our measurements to decimals
We posted our findings on Google Sheets
We earned Dojo points
We had a few minutes of educational free time at the end of class for pre-approved web pages.
Fourth grade:
Reviewed Treble Clef with a game of Snakes and Ladders as a class.
Played free time with remaining time (with pre-approved web sites)

Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Worked to finish assembling their cars
• Measured dimensions of their vehicles
• Posted dimensions on Google Sheets
• Began running their cars down the ramp to test for weaknesses

Fourth grade:

• Reviewed Treble Clef
• Played a game reinforcing their understanding
• Earned free time via Dojo po ints

Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Fifth grade:

• Began assembling their cars
• They adhered to the standards that they had set https://docs.google.com/a/cccschools.org/document/d/1QlGmedM-FlQTv7IGGeAgSc09eTIxRxDNeOr9lrSbPd4/edit?usp=sharing
• Video of their assemblies could be seen on Class Dojo

Fourth grade:

• Reviewed Treble Clef notes
• Reviewed Bass Clef notes
• Drew out Treble and Bass Clef notes
• Played a game reinforcing their understanding

Monday, April 10, 2017
Fourth and Fifth grade began the last nine week process.
Fifth grade learned about the Box project. They observed how some boxes could be manipulated to represent different objects. This fifth grade class decided on creating cars out of common manipulatives available to their classmates:

• wheels
• axels
• boxes
• tape

Students drew their ideas on a web app and submitted their png on Google Classroom.

Fourth grade:

• We reviewed Treble Clef.
• We opened a workbook about Music Theory