Story element exploration through group and independent work
Comparing and contrasting story elements through group and independent work
Fictional Narrative brainstorm (creating character/setting on TinkerCad-3D digital modeling program)
Current Steps:
Fictional narrative planning (graphic organizer)
Draft 1
Next Steps:
Draft 1
Peer feedback and revision
Comparing and contrasting story elements between students' narratives
2nd Grade Math: Board Game Creation
Previous Steps:
Game exploration/observations
Ideation
Gamestorm pack (rules, objective, game board design draft)
Current Steps (varies between students):
Developing game rules that are specific and easy for players to understand (this is a challenging task) - Google Docs
Writing at least 20 multiplication problems and solving for answer key (varying strategies-array, skip counting, drawing a picture, repeated addition, area/box model)
Creating game cards-Google Docs
2nd Draft Game Boards Design (will be used for test run and to determine needed revisions)
Next Steps:
Game test with feedback and revisions
Final game board (blank boards arrived and kids were THRILLED to see these in person)
Game pieces created
All game documents (rules/cards) printed and prepared
Board Game Extravaganza within school community
2nd Grade ELA: Stage/Set Model Design
Previous Steps:
Identifying, comparing, and contrasting setting between multiple versions of the same story
Set design sketch
Set design 2nd draft with cited text evidence (typed on Google Docs)
Final set design
Materials list
Current Steps:
Material selection/gathering (some students wanted to bring natural elements into their set designs)
Gamestorm pack (rules, objective, game board design draft)
Current Steps (varies between students):
Developing game rules that are specific and easy for players to understand (this is a challenging task) - Google Docs
Writing at least 20 multiplication/division problems and solving for answer key (varying strategies-array, skip counting, drawing a picture, repeated addition, area/box model)
Creating game cards-Google Docs
2nd Draft Game Boards Design (will be used for test run and to determine needed revisions)
TinkerCad designs for Game pieces/elements (at Lincoln Ms. Deininger came in for a mini lesson on utilizing the TinkerCad design plane)
Next Steps:
Game test with feedback and revisions
Final game board (blank boards arrived and kids were THRILLED to see these in person)
Game pieces created
All game documents (rules/cards) printed and prepared
Board Game Extravaganza within school community
4th Grade ELA: Harris Burdick Short Stories
Previous Steps:
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg read aloud
Multiple feedback protocols (including draft exchange with a student form another school)
Revision
Final draft
Original illustration (digital or hand drawn) to go with short story
Publish!
Author reading/signing and book distribution
4th Grade Math: Coordinate Grid Playground Design
Previous Steps:
Skill development: coordinate grid vocabulary, navigating the coordinate plane, plotting points on the coordinate grid, integers on a number line, comparing/ordering integers, adding and subtracting integers
Project Launch: Coolest playgrounds video
Playground feature ideation
Feature layout on coordinate grid map of school
List of ordered pairs
Current Steps:
Final draft layout on coordinate grid map of school (in color)
Ordered pairs for each vertex typed in Google docs
TinkerCad designs of playground features (see first picture below)
Final presentation Google Slides
Addition and subtraction with integers practice/review
Next Steps:
3-D Print one design (see 3-D print prep in last pics below)
Complete presentation
Present to group
Display map, ordered pair list, 3-D printed original playground feature
5th Grade ELA: Podcasting
Previous Steps (varies between students):
Podcast listening sessions
50 Things ideation protocol
Topic selection
Research/notes
Episode outline
Feedback/revision
Current Steps:
Scripting
Feedback/revision (script table reads with feedback)
Further research/notes where needed
Episode Art
WeVideo practice (see screenshot of WeVideo editing/production screen below)
Recording
Producing
Next Steps:
Final recording sessions (some have started)
Editing/production
Adding music
Upload to WUSD podcast channel (platforms TBD-likely spotify, iHeart Radio, Google Play, Apple)
Podcast Launch Party
5th Math: Rates, Ratios, and Proportions
Previous Steps:
Rate/ratio vocabulary
Rate scavenger hunt
Whole number long division strategies/practice
Decimal division strategies/practice (decimal in dividend, divisor, and quotient)
Current Steps:
Unit rates and prices
Grocery store unit rate activity
Connecting ratios, fractions, decimals, and percents
Brainstorm school area for scale model
Next Steps:
Select area of school for scale model
List components to include in model
Rough blueprint sketch of area
Take measurements
Select scale factor
Calculations
Blueprint with to scale measurements
Model building
Elementary School Spelling Bees
After break 4th and 5th Grade classes will be holding their Classroom Spelling Bees. Each class will advance a set number of finalists to the School Spelling Bee! Once in Middle School, students will have the opportunity to participate in their our Scripps WMS Bee and advance to regionals, state, and nationals! Elementary Bees are great place to practice skills and become accustomed to the format. Please feel free to reach out with any questions!
