Christmas Party - The Trees

The class had a Christmas party as there was a competition between the boys and girls for the best decorated tree. Our Principal, Mrs. Gleghill came by to judge the competition. The girls won with their tree.

 The boys' tree

The girls' tree



PBL Broadcasts - Dec 2012

In class today we produced our practice broadcasts. 

This is the weather report with Sanaa, Sahira and Donny.

Mackai directed.

Alaina and Zach created their own news "parody" 

complete with bloopers.

Elizabeth directed.

Still working on getting the last group's uploaded. Here's 
their link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTBCDXYrYUo&feature=share&list=FLDKeWWwyZep_BAlU_SRyK5w 

Cow Eye Dissection and Hat Day

Friday was dissection day. Mrs. Gledhill returned to help the students dissect a cow's eye.They learned the parts of the eye and the function of each.

Also, it was TLA hat day! Woo hoo!

App Challenge: Toontastic vs Puppet Pals

All of us students tried two different apps and after we voted on the better app. Everyone voted for Toontastic over Puppet Pals.

Caly and Alex's presentation.

Jack and Alaina's presentation using Toontastic. They liked how you could draw your own characters.

Here is Elizabeth & Sultana's Puppet Pal animation.



Second Language Presentations

These are the grade 4-8 second language students presentations on food.

Caly did her presentation on Dutch foods. She brought in a special bread with butter and a thin slice of cheese. The class loved it.

She presented her bread with cheese and butter.

The Spanish group of McKai, Jack, and Alaina, did their presentation on foods with beef and chicken. They brought in toritos, a staple food.

Our Lemon Tree is Blooming

This is our first lemon tree. I wasn't sure what was going to happen or when something was going to happen. Well, something happened!

The Boys' Collages

Donny

Jack

Mac

Alex

Mckai

Mckai again!

Jack again!

Mckai for the third time!

Zach

The Girls' Collages

We all did collages and these are the girl collages. We downloaded them at Collageit.com.We hope you enjoy them!

Elizabeth

Caly

Sultana

Alaina

Sanaa

Sahira

Collage-it

This is a sample of the collage I made with some photos from class using

Collage-it.com (free version).

I'll have to try playing with this some more.

Technology Goals

I am on a steep learning curve with technology.  One of my professional goals this year is to try to attend one webinar a week or to use a new "technology" for the class to use.  I've created a "Tagxedo" with all the website/apps/technology we've used thus far.

I added a couple games that we tend to play during our free time.

Tony Vincent recently published a "Wordle" with the technologies that educators enjoy using in their PBL classrooms.

Thus, this "Wordle" will act as a goal for our class.  Provided the apps/technology costs are minimal, my goal is to try most of these by the end of the year.  This week we are working on Toontastic and Puppet Pals, besides our writings in NaNoWriMo.

 

Seed Counting

All of us students had to count how many seeds were in three different pumpkins and who ever guessed the closest won.

Pumpkin number two had 343 seeds.

Pumpkin number one had 693 seeds.

Pumpkin number three had 569 seeds.

Elizabeth had the closed guess of 700 seeds.  Her prize is 15 minutes of free time!

Apple Tasting

Sanaa and Sahira got all of the students to taste and vote on four different kinds of apples: Pink Lady, Granny Smith, Aurora (Yellow), and Gala.

We tasted each one and the class favorite was the Pink Lady.

Notice the star shape in the apple when it's cut in half.  Sanaa and Sahira also counted seeds. Most of the time the answer was an odd number.

Sahira And Her Medal

The youngest student, Sahira, brought in a medal she won at her hockey game. She plays on a team and they won a few hockey games.



Having Fun With Photography using the iPads

We all had a great time learning photography and getting new apps for the iPads with really cool effects.

Jack and the Annex as a rainbow.

Jack modeling for a picture for our photography session.

Mac as a rainbow.

Alex and Elizabeth were taking pictures as Alaina and Caly posed as models.

Miss Harold was using her iPad to take pictures of the class and they were showing up on the projector.

Alaina made this of me when we drew Mario Mustaches.

I really do love myself. Alaina made this of me after I wrote, "I <3 myself" on the white board.

Mac, the avatar. One of the students made him an avatar.