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April 2016

Thursday, April 28, 2016
Fifth grade earned a Dojo point party.

Fourth grade:

  • Reviewed grades from their Glogster assignment
  • Calculated points from grade into Dojo account
  • Opened the Excel application
  • Reviewed terms:
    • Active cell
    • Column heading
    • Row heading
    • Cell address
    • Ctrl home
    • Formula bar
    • Label
    • Value

Third grade
Sang:
    • America
    • Once An Austrian Was Yodeling
  • Discussed Negro Spirituals
  • Learned He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
  • Accompanied He's Got The Whole World In His Hands with toned bells
First grade:
  • sang:
    • America
    • Daffadills
    • Swimming
  • five little turkeys
  • We played these instruments as we performed this song
Intervention:
  • typed in the personal narriative
Kindergarten:
  • Learned rules for hand bells:

  • Handbell Protocol

    To make sure bells are handled correctly:

    1. We only shake the bell when our color is pointed to.

    2. Bells must be silent when not being played 
    3. Decide ahead of time what chord or harmonies you’ll be working with (so it’s not a free-for-all when the bells come out)
    4. Try to sing the sound of your tube/lightsaber (like the hum of the lightsaber in Star Wars, but singing in tune with your bell)
 Using toned bells, we played the Star Wars Theme Song



Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Fourth and fifth grade:

  • those who needed to updated, and submitted the Glog
  • we began our spreadsheet unit
  • we learned
    • labels
    • values
    • active cell
    • address
    • ctrl home

Third grade:

  • Sang:
    • America
    • Once An Austrian Was Yodeling
  • learned the meter of 3/4 time
  • played a cup game with the song: There's A Hole In The Bucket
  • enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFfeU85CozU for good behavior

First grade:

  • sang:
    • America
    • Daffadills
    • Swimming
  • five little turkeys
  • We played these instruments as we performed this song
Intervention:
  • read LLI books:
    • Ball book
    • Talent Show book
  • Sight word app
Kindergarten:
  • Learned rules for hand bells:

  • Handbell Protocol

    To make sure bells are handled correctly:

    1. We only shake the bell when our color is pointed to.

    2. Bells must be silent when not being played

    3. Decide ahead of time what chord or harmonies you’ll be working with (so it’s not a free-for-all when the bells come out)

    4. Try to sing the sound of your tube/lightsaber (like the hum of the lightsaber in Star Wars, but singing in tune with your bell)
 Using toned bells, we played the Star Wars Theme Song

Mrs. Parmenter's class earned a Dojo point party.

No afternoon classes due to Professional Development.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Fifth grade:

  • Logged onto Google Classroom
  • Opened Glogster
  • Reviewed requirements
    • Glog requirements:
    • You must have your movie =5 points
    • Text, movie, and chart must be sized appropriately =5
    • You must have a spreadsheet chart documenting the measurements (in inches) =5
    • You must have one red (warm) sticky note and one blue (cool) sticky note comment (from a peer) posted on your glog (and these have to be in COMPLETE SENTENCES.) =5
    • You must have one red comment about YOUR project from YOU. =5
    • You must have one blue comment about YOUR project from YOU. =5
  • A peer proofread their glog
  • Necessary changes were made and project was submitted
Fourth grade:
  • Logged onto Google Classroom
  • Opened Glogster
  • Reviewed requirements
  • Project name:W2L1
    • 1. Do titles have upper case letters? =5 points

      2. Are lines double spaced? (Did you press enter after each line) =5 points

      3. Are there spaces between numbers/symbols? =5 points

      4. Did you refer to the requirements? =5 points

      Requirements:

      *Viable answers must be listed.

      *Correct answer must be listed.

      *Fonts should be correct size for boxes.

      *Skill must be listed

      *Text boxes must: fit the glog in size AND contain proper punctuation/math sense

      5. Is your wall appropriate? Does it help with math thinking? =5 points
  • A peer proofread their glog
  • Necessary changes were made and project was submitted
Kindergarten:

  • Learned about composer: Aaron Copeland
  • Listened to Cat and Mouse
  • Observed fast and slow parts
  • Sang:
    • Please and thank you
    • Nobody likes a tattle tale
    • I can follow the rules
    • Calendar Song
    • This is the song that never ends
Mrs. Nurenberg's and Ms. Whaley's  classes:

  • Earned a Dojo point party
  • They voted to divide their 40 minutes into sections:
    • Duck duck goose
    • Dancing
    • Kid Snippets
    • Musical Chairs

Intervention:

  • Finished reading: Reading Street Book
  • Worked on sight word App

Mrs. McVitte's, Mrs. Crane's, and Ms. Snyder's classes:

  • Began their lessons with:  https://www.youtube.com/embed/mFfeU85CozU
  • Composer Timeline: http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_timeline.asp
  • Composer by style: http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_period.asp
  • Audio lesson: Arron Copeland: http://www.classicsforkids.com/pastshows.asp?id=33
  • Youtube cartoon of Cat and Mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTuZu0TT9Uw


Monday, April 25, 2016
Fourth and fifth grade had Reproductive Health Education. Select students stayed in the computer lab playing ABCya math games. If they earned it, they were able to access pre-approved web pages at the end of their class time.

Second and Third grade:

  • Logged onto Tynker.com
  • Created accounts
  • Began coding 
Kindergarten and First grade:

  • Reviewed home row
  • Logged onto Google Classroom
  • Worked on Dance Mat Typing
  • Earned Dojo points when we used both hands
Intervention:

  • We worked briefly on a Sight Word App
  • We worked extensively on a Reading Street story about a dog named Dodger.



Friday, April 22, 2016
Fourth and fifth grade had Reproductive Health Education. Select students stayed in the computer lab playing ABCya math games. If they earned it, they were able to access pre-approved web pages at the end of their class time.

Kindergarten through third grade learned about Aaron Copeland. We used these links below:

Composer Timeline: http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_timeline.asp
Composer by style: http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_period.asp
Audio lesson: Arron Copeland: http://www.classicsforkids.com/pastshows.asp?id=33
Youtube cartoon of Cat and Mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTuZu0TT9Uw
MODERN List of composers: http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_period.asp
Play Zap with facts learned about Arron Copeland

Intervention:

  • worked on sight words
  • worked on creating a final draft of personal narrative

Thursday, April 21, 2016
Fifth grade:

  • logged onto Google Classroom
  • opened a GlogsterEDU account
  • added text to Glogster documenting peer's observations
  • inserted data documenting personal hypothesis, methods, and equipment used
  • remaining time was spent using Dojo points to explore pre-approved web sites
Fourth grade:


  • earned a Dojo point party (1,000 points). 
  • they explored pre-approved web pages

Third grade:

  • We sang:
    • Once An Austrian Was Yodeling
    • Star Spangled Banner
    • The Goat (one student sang a solo as the rest echoed)
    • Scales and Arpeggios (we discused again, how scales determine "keys" for songs)
  • We sang the song: One, Two, Three (from Barbados)
    • We discussed meter
    • We performed meter with classroom instruments
First grade:
We sang:

  • America
  • You're A Grand Old Flag
  • Noble Duke of York
  • We discussed:
    • high pitch
    • low pitch
    • forte
    • piano

Second grade:

  • Sang:
    • You're A Grand Old Flag
    • Star Spangled Banner
    • Keep Your Paws of The Carrots
    • the Carnival Parade
  • Listened to Aaron Copeland's: The Red Pony
  • Played instrument to The Carnival Song


Intervention: we worked on typing personal narratives.

Kindergarten
We sang:
  • First We Wave
  • Higher Than A House (we demonstrated our understanding of pitch by positioning our bodies accordingly)
  • Put Your Finger in the Air
  • Ready to Start The Day
  • My Hands
  • I Can Follow The Rules


    We played instruments while reciting a Mother Goose Rhyme (of high and low pitches)

    Mrs. Baker's class earned a Dojo Point Party! This was the second one this year!

    Wednesday, April 20, 2016
    Fifth grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened a GlogsterEDU account
    • uploaded their picture from yesterday's screen shot.
    • added text to Glogster documenting peer's observations
    Fourth grade:
    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened a GlogsterEDU account
    • began documenting their Math Functions gleaned from last week's web pages
    • we worked together as a class to edit text, numbers, and symbols
    Third grade:

    • We sang:
      • Once An Austrian Was Yodeling
      • Star Spangled Banner
      • The Goat (one student sang a solo as the rest echoed)
      • Scales and Arpeggios (we discused again, how scales determine "keys" for songs)
    • We sang the song: One, Two, Three (from Barbados)
      • We discussed meter
      • We performed meter with classroom instruments
    First grade:
    We sang:

    • America
    • You're A Grand Old Flag
    • Noble Duke of York
    • We discussed:
      • high pitch
      • low pitch
      • forte
      • piano

    Mrs. Ryan's class had a Dojo point party

    Intervention: we worked on personal narratives.

    Second grade:




    • Mrs. Farlee's class sang:
      • You're A Grand Old Flag
      • Star Spangled Banner
      • Keep Your Paws of The Carrots
      • the Carnival Parade
    • Listened to Aaron Copeland's: The Red Pony
    • Played instrument to The Carnival Song

    Kindergarten
    We sang:
    • First We Wave
    • Higher Than A House (we demonstrated our understanding of pitch by positioning our bodies accordingly)
    • Put Your Finger in the Air
    • Ready to Start The Day
    • My Hands
    • I Can Follow The Rules
    We played instruments while reciting a Mother Goose Rhyme (of high and low pitches)

    Tuesday, April 19, 2016
    Fifth grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened a GlogsterEDU account
    • began documenting their findings about the "Box Project"
    • entered data about the distance their box traveled 
    • converted measurements into inches in Google Sheets
    • created a chart documenting information
    • took a screen shot of chart
    • saved the screen shot onto Power point and saved image as JPEG
    Fourth grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened a GlogsterEDU account
    • began documenting their Math Functions gleaned from last week's web pages
    • we worked together as a class to edit text, numbers, and symbols
    Third grade:
    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened Google Slides
    • typed in Martin Luther King Jr.
    • typed in their name
    • created an account in typingclub.com
    • documented their word per minute achievement on a Google Doc
    First grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened Google Slides
    • chose a theme
    • typed in their name
    • presented their slide
    • added a google image
    • saved their document
    • enjoyed free time on ABCya.com for remaining time
    Intervention: read their book: Reading Street (One Dark Night). We then worked on an iPad app for sight words.

    Kindergarten:

    • logged on
    • opened Google Drive
    • Sang spreadsheet song (tune: Twinkle Twinkle:
      • spreadsheet spreadsheet they're so fun
      • rows begin with number 1
      • columns go across with ABC
      • they don't use 1,2,3
      • where they come together it's called a cell
      • now we know it very well
    • collected data about what their favorite ice cream flavor was
    • we demonstrated our learning with a chart and were able to make sense of the data
    Second grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened Google Slides
    • chose a theme
    • typed in their name
    • presented their slide
    • added a google image
    • saved their document
    • created an account on Typingclub.com
    Monday, April 18, 2016
    Fifth grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened a GlogsterEDU account
    • began documenting their findings about the "Box Project"
    • uploaded their movie to GlogsterEDU
    Fourth grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened a GlogsterEDU account
    • began documenting their Math Functions gleaned from last week's web pages
    Third grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened Google Slides
    • typed in Martin Luther King Jr.
    • typed in their name
    • created an account in typingclub.com
    • documented their word per minute achievement on a Google Doc
    First grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened Google Slides
    • chose a theme
    • typed in their name
    • presented their slide
    • added a google image
    • saved their document
    • enjoyed free time on ABCya.com for remaining time
    Intervnetion: read their book: Reading Street (One Dark Night)

    Kindergarten:

    • logged on
    • opened Google Drive
    • Sang spreadsheet song (tune: Twinkle Twinkle:
      • spreadsheet spreadsheet they're so fun
      • rows begin with number 1
      • columns go across with ABC
      • they don't use 1,2,3
      • where they come together it's called a cell
      • now we know it very well
    • collected data about what their favorite ice cream flavor was
    • we demonstrated our learning with a chart and were able to make sense of the data
    Second grade:

    • logged onto Google Classroom
    • opened Google Slides
    • chose a theme
    • typed in their name
    • presented their slide
    • added a google image
    • saved their document
    • created an account on Typingclub.com



    Friday, April 15, 2016
    Fourth and Fifth grade

    • Due to Reproductive Education, select students were sent to computer lab
    • Students explored number games on ABCya that were grade appropriate
    Intervention:

    1. Read library books
    2. Explored sounding out new words
    Kindergarten-Third grade:

    • Continued their Music History.
    • We reviewed:
      • Whole body listening
      • Baroque composer: Handel
      • Classical composer: Beethoven
    • We learned about Romantic Composer: Claude Debussy
      • His birth year
      • His Impressionistic tendencies
      • His country
    • We played ZAP! to review our findings.

    Thursday, April 14, 2016
    Fifth grade:

    • logged onto their Google Classroom accounts
    • measured distances in feet and inches with their box projects
    • they commented on each peer's box using colored sticky notes:
      • Red comment (warm comment): an observation about what was done well with their project
      • Blue comment (cool comment): an observation about something that could be improved on the project
    • observed the movies taken of their project
    Fourth grade:

    • logged onto their Google Classroom accounts
    • worked on various math skills:
      • measurement
        • rulers
        • angles
        • currency
      • decimals
      • number placement
    • submitted their assignments
    • opened a Glogster account to document their learned skills
    Third grade:

    • learned about scales and arpeggios
    • listened to pitches and found which ones followed the next in a C scale

    • learned the pattern that is used in whole and half steps to make a scale
    • learned that arpeggios are also following a pattern
    • observed (and later sang the song) Scales and Arpeggios from the Aristocrat movie

    Intervention:

    • We worked on details and conclusion for classroom writing assignment
    • Collaborated on an iPad app dedicated to second grade sight words

    Kindergarten:

    • Learned high/low
    • Learned fast/slow
    • Practiced high and low by standing on our tip toes for high notes
    First grade:

    • We learned about phrases
    • We practiced breathing and singing observing phrase marks
    • We learned about how to read "verses"
    • We accompanied our song with bells
    • We listened to pitches and arranged them into the C scale
    Second grade:

    • She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain
    • Star Spangled Banner
      • We learned the Frances Scott Key story
      • We discussed how important it is to stand and face the flag when we heard the music to the National Anthem

    Wednesday, April 13, 2016
    Fifth grade:
    Measured distances in feet and inches:






    Kindergarten:

    • Learned high/low
    • Learned fast/slow
    • Practiced high and low by standing on our tip toes for high notes
    First grade:

    • Scales and arpeggios
    • We practiced with bells
    • We listened to pitches and arranged them into the C scale
    Second grade:

    • She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain
    • Star Spangled Banner
      • We learned the Frances Scott Key story
      • We discussed how important it is to stand and face the flag when we heard the music to the National Anthem






    Tuesday, April 12, 2016
    Fifth grade:



    • Drew a blueprint of their goal for their "Box Project."
    • Working together they created carts, applying the laws of physics
    Mrs. Crane's Mrs. McVitte's and Mrs. Nurenberg's classes tried their hands (and minds!) at coding with tynker.com



    INTERVENTION: We worked on a sight word packet, as well an an application for iPad, created specifically for sight words!


    Ms. Whaley's and Mrs. Baker's classes:

    • Logged onto Google Classroom
    • Opened their assignment:
      • Rectangle
      • Rounded Rectangle
    • Finished their assignment
    • Submitted their assignment
    Ms. Snyder's class enjoyed a Dojo party!

    Monday, April 11, 2016
    New marking period: Marking Period 4!
    Fifth grade:

    • learned about Dojo currency
    • got assigned seats
    • learned about the box Project
    • brainstormed about their Box Projects
    • got materials
    • began assembling carts
    Fourth grade:
    • learned about Dojo currency
    • got assigned seats
    • learned about web safety
    Mrs. Joll's, Mrs. Postema's, Mrs. Parmenter's Mrs. Naessen's, and Mrs. Farlee's classes:
    • earned 1,000 Dojo points
    • spent their points on pre-approved web pages:
      • http://mrsvswiki.wikispaces.com/
      • http://angvan10.100webspace.net/
    • learned that Dojo points are great points to earn!

    Mrs. Ryan's class:
    • reviewed Tynker.com as a possible resource for next year's students
    Intervention:

    • sight word packet
    • Title books
      • Bear's Getting Honey
      • I Enjoy Apples


    Friday, April 1, 2016
    Fifth grade earned 1,000 Dojo points and enjoyed a full class time of exploring pre-approved web pages.
    Fourth grade:

    • Logged onto Google Classroom
    • Downloaded an Excel document
    • Formatted cells with:
      • Averages
      • Autosum
      • Currency
    • Inserted a chart
    • Saved their work
    • Uploaded their work
    • Spent remaining time on Minecraft
    Kindergarten through Third grade continued their Fabulous Friday of Finding Composers. Last time we studied Baroque composer, Handel. Today we used the following sites to learn facts about the Classical composer, Beethoven.

    • COMPOSER TIMELINE: http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_timeline.asp
    • COMPOSER GAME: http://www.classicsforkids.com/games/time-machine/tm.html
    • LISTEN TO STORY: http://www.classicsforkids.com/pastshows.asp?id=233
    • http://takelessons.com/blog/classical-piano-music-styles-z06?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=Pinterest
    For reward of being wonderful listeners we enjoyed: Mr. Bean plays invisible drums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8lHuQh-MFE

     Some third graders tried composing on their own today: 


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