Wednesday February 6, 2008

Gr. 7/8:
7/8 missed library again! So next week we dive into creating our Wikipedia page.
Book Club: Selecting a book Feb.13th.
Media Lab: Since the 7/8 graders couldn’t come to library I went to them. I interrupted a class for 5 minutes and gave them a packet to look at before next week. The packet included pages from similar schools on Wikipedia and pages from our web site. They are going to think about how we could recycle some of the content from our web site into text that would be good for the Wikipedia page. Everyone will take turns building the page on the smart board.

Gr. 6:
Book Club: Feb 13th we will select a date for the book club discussion.
Media Lab: We talked about the topics they have researched. Some of the students hadn’t done the research and we did it in the library. One of the students selected the Tasmanian devil. Some surprising facts were that it eats almost anything dead or alive skin hair and all. Also that it has pink ears that turn bright red when it gets mad. Is the Tasmanian devil extinct? . . . more research is being done. Some feedback from a parent was that her son was doing research for the fun of it with out the pressure of a grade and he really was excited about working on his own project. I explained the news program idea to them. They liked the idea but I think they have no idea what they want to do. So next week we will talk more about topics and possible story ideas. The student’s idea for a Tasmanian devil story link was our school was thinking about making the Tasmanian devil the new school mascot. We didn’t discuss studio names yet.

Gr. 5:
Book Club: Feb 13th we will select a date for the book club discussion.
Media Lab: We quickly passed out jobs to get the animation going. We hired a cameraman, supply chief, an assistant director, and a project coordinator. We also assigned each student a body part of the rooster. We started shooting! We got to the head today and will try to finish next time. I will work on animating the pictures that we took.

Gr. 4:
Chaos! They had read the book I wanted to read. I picked someone to choose a book. Chaos and then someone said read The Cat in the Hat so I did. We laughed but it was a failure. They need a project! I’m thinking they could create a book or something . . .

Gr. 3:
We read King Midas and the Golden Touch. Great!

Gr. 2:
Happily read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Gr. 1:
Happily read My Father’s Dragon.

K:
Read Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. They loved it.