As you know, Poetry in the Park is this Friday, beginning at 8:30. For the event, fourth graders are participating in a Lower Division rite of passage--memorizing and performing "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." This week we begin our whole-grade rehearsals. By Tuesday, students are expected to know their respective parts by memory. All of the fourth-grade teachers appreciate the help you have given your children as they have worked to commit the lengthy poem to memory. We appreciate in advance your support during this final stretch as well. It's so much work, but so worth it in the end!
After a tremendous amount of work and thought, students have completed their instructional VoiceThreads. Embedded below is each pair's VoiceThread that will teach you how to build a particular type of circuit. To complete the project, students worked through a series of steps. First, students decided on a type of circuit about which to teach, and then gathered all of the materials they would need to build that circuit. Then, they planned their instruction using storyboards, mapping out both the pictures they would need as well as the text that would describe each step of their processes. Then the took digital pictures, editing and selecting their best images for each step. Finally, each pair recorded the instructions for each step.
Each Voicethread includes a final slide which guides the audience---YOU--to respond the the VoiceThreads. You may either watch the VT by clicking the play button on each screen, or you may click on the students' names above to view it in full screen mode. To comment, you will need to create an identity. To do that: on the last slide, just click on the button that says "Sign in or Create an Identity" and follow the directions. You will need to upload an avatar or photo; the photo may easily be taken with your computer camera. Once your photo appears in the lower left corner, you may select "comment" and then click "record" and then record your observations. Please use the questions in the last slide to guide your responses.
Matthew and Jared
Ryan and Sean
Chloe and Lindsey
Kyra and Eric
Samuel and McKenna
Sammy and Will R.
Ari and Joshua
Asher and Lindsay
Renata and Michael
Aliyah and Will H.
This week I will be sending the take-home folders home on Wednesday so that I may include the social studies assessments from Tuesday. Thank you for so promptly signing and returning the assessments to me. Continue to write notes to me on the forms if you have questions or comments.
Upcoming important events:
November 11: Poetry in the Park
November 20 - 25: Thanksgiving break
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