Gr. 7 and 8
We started work on a new media lab project. Grade 8 will be working on a “Words of Wisdom” video. The video will share "Words of Wisdom" with the lower grades and each students will talk about their favorite childhood book. The 7th grade will be working on a similar video. They will also share their favorite childhood book along with some random thoughts they have about life.
We also checked in with our Wikipedia entry and were surprised to find someone added a brief passage about our school closing. This upset a few students -- they wanted to find out who made the changes so that they could put some graffiti on their entries in Wikipedia. We discussed that “our” entry on Wikipedia is open to other people working to update entries and unlike a regular web site things can be added or changed by “outsiders”. Who are these people? They wanted to know. The info was correct -- directly lifted from a online news article. That’s plagiarism! They cried. Well . . . yes but not the kind that people really generally get upset about. It was a great discussion.
Gr. 6:
We watched the newest video in our Cultural Connections News Series -- the Titanic. Fantastic job! To see the movie click on the link below. **The ID is our school's town (lowercase) and the password is our school principal (lowercase) -- you are going to have to type it twice when you click on link.
ICS News Cultural Connections -- Titanic
We planned for our next segment -- Vikings. This one will be very exciting. We will film it next week.
Gr. 5
The students created a background for the Bremin Town Musicians and worked on creating the characters. We will film the first episode next week.
Gr. 4:
This week a girl chose a Goosebumps book. It was a "choose your own story" Goosebumps about a wax museum. I had never read a Goosebumps book and since we were all very much into the story -- we read the whole book!
Gr. 3:
This week a girl chose to go back and read the third chapter of Frindle. A very funny book.
Gr. 2:
We read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. This week’s chapter was Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time. Very exciting. One of the best chapters in the whole book . . . Aslan roars and the Witch fairly runs for her life.
Gr. 1 and K:
We had to combine the two classes this week because of scheduling. I read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Very funny with great pictures -- it was promptly checked out.
We planned for our next segment -- Vikings. This one will be very exciting. We will film it next week.
Gr. 5
The students created a background for the Bremin Town Musicians and worked on creating the characters. We will film the first episode next week.
Gr. 4:
This week a girl chose a Goosebumps book. It was a "choose your own story" Goosebumps about a wax museum. I had never read a Goosebumps book and since we were all very much into the story -- we read the whole book!
Gr. 3:
This week a girl chose to go back and read the third chapter of Frindle. A very funny book.
Gr. 2:
We read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. This week’s chapter was Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time. Very exciting. One of the best chapters in the whole book . . . Aslan roars and the Witch fairly runs for her life.
Gr. 1 and K:
We had to combine the two classes this week because of scheduling. I read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Very funny with great pictures -- it was promptly checked out.
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