Reading Comprehension Strategy: Synthesizing

November 28, 2011 on 10:56 am | In Reading, video | No Comments

is a great site for learning reading comprehension strategies.  The student side of the site explains the strategy and then let’s them try it themselves. There is a teacher side has a lesson plan and resources like graphic organizers and videos that I will use to teach the strategy before they try it themselves on student side.

The focus for this week will be on Synthesizing what they read with what they already know to get new ideas.

I’ll use the videos first to teach the kids about Synthesizing.

We’ll use a graphic organizer to practice the skill with a reading selection.

Then the kids get to try it themselves.  They will create a username so they can save their progress.  At the end of this activity they are supposed to be able to email their finished bookmark.  We’ll give that a try so you can see what they make.

Public Services here vs. Nigeria

November 10, 2011 on 11:14 pm | In Economics | No Comments

During our Economics unit we will learn to identify public goods and services.  This video compares public goods and services here (actually California) verses Nigeria, Africa.

 

 

 

 

Public goods in California and Nigeria

Opportunity Cost

November 9, 2011 on 12:12 am | In Economics | No Comments

Opportunity Cost is what you give up when you make a choice.  Here is a video to help explain.

 

 

What is Opportunity Cost?

More Instrument Presentations

April 28, 2011 on 7:20 pm | In Sound, video | No Comments

We are wrapping up our Sound kit.  As a final project, students made homemade instruments and presented them to the class.  Links to resources for homemade instruments can be found on this page.  I’ll post videos of the presentations over the next few days as I get them uploaded.

 

Instrument Presentations

April 25, 2011 on 9:50 am | In Sound, video | No Comments

We are wrapping up our Sound kit.  As a final project, students made homemade instruments and presented them to the class.  Links to resources for homemade instruments can be found on this page.  I’ll post videos of the presentations over the next few days as I get them uploaded.

 

 

Visualizing Sound

March 30, 2011 on 8:51 am | In Sound, video | No Comments

These are two videos about Cymatics: the science of visualizing sound.

 

Gotta Keep Reading

January 31, 2011 on 5:45 am | In video | No Comments

Our 3rd graders did a great job performing for our Winter Arts Festival.  They ended the performance with our theme song for this year Gotta Keep Reading.  It is a remix of the song by the Black-Eyed Peas‘ song I Got a Feeling first performed by students at Ocoee Middle School in LA.  It became in internet sensation.  Here it is.

Episode 18 – Spiva Art Center

August 13, 2010 on 11:28 pm | In Art, Podcast, video | No Comments

One of our field trips this year was to visit the Spiva Art Center.   Sponsors made it possible for 1,000 area students to visit the center and create a collaborative mural that will become a permanent exhibit at the gallery.

Mrs. Denton had already prepared our students for the trip by teaching them elements of the art they will see.

Our students recorded interviews with each other about the art there.  Using digital recorders, cell phones, and digital cameras, they applied what they had learned to the art they saw.  The application of their learning was powerful.

I pulled them all together into this video.  Enjoy!

Episode 18 – Spiva Art Center

Destination Imagination

March 11, 2009 on 11:25 am | In video | 1 Comment

3 students in our class participated in Destination Imagination this year. They created a project which they presented recently during the contest.

You can download it here.

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