iMovie Book Trailers

Students are learning to use the iMovie app to create book trailers.  They are learning about symbolism and tone and how these elements can help tell a story.  Check out some of our work!

i-Movie Templates

Lesson Plan

Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry for Kids - My Mouse is Misbehaving - A Funny Computer Poem for Kids

Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry for Kids - My Mouse is Misbehaving - A Funny Computer Poem for Kids

5th Grade Social Studies Inca Mind Map

Blogging Comment Rubric

Blogging

In the month of January, students have been working on the creation of their very own kidblogs.  Students are using the writing skills that they are learning in their class to implement into their blog posts.  For example, students are using their persuasive essay skills to persuade audiences on wether or not kids should use videos games.  They are using evidence from many different sources including online research to back up their claims and they are using their kidblogs as a platform to share their views and opinions.  The blogs are private but if you are interested in seeing your child's work please message me and I would be glad to share our link.

Next week we will be opening up our blog posts to a school in Boston where students will share the different experiences of living in different cities.  Please stay tuned to see what happens!!

Google Drive Accounts

In the months of November through December, students will be working on creating a Google drive account in which they will save their work into a digital portfolio.  This digital portfolio will contain numerous works that will showcase the progress of each student.  Students will also learn the features of working with a Google account such as creating folders, documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. They will learn the difference between saving their work onto a computer or flash drive vs. a cloud account online such as Google.

Mindmeister

Mindmeister maps allow students to sort and categorize different topics and information.  Students can add visuals and connect ideas using the different functions within Mindmeister.  Mindmeister can be used for an isolated activity or topic, or can be used as a year-long tool to collect and present information.

Here are some examples of how we used Mindmeister for Social Studies


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Students used Mindmeister to develop their identity maps and organize categories that helped to define who they are and how they became to be.  In order to do this we logged into our Mindmeister accounts and inserted new ideas, relationships, hyperlinks, as well as images.  These mind maps give others an insight into who we are as individuals. We will add to our mind maps across the year because as all people do, we will grow and evolve everyday.  Check out one of our Mindmeister Samples .

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Students used Mindmeister to:

• Create a yearlong social studies curriculum map for students to add information, opinions and ask questions

• At the beginning of a unit, the Mindmeister map can be used to record research questions
• While researching and studying within the unit, the Mindmeister map was used once a week as a place to record information and post additional wonderings or questions.  This was done both individually on personal computers, and as a whole class during review discussions.
• When researching the cause and effects of the American Revolution, each group received an event and worked together to determine who was involved, when the event occurred, what happened, and why the event happened.