AK students listened to Unplugged by Steve Antony. He is another author who has written some great books for the littlest ones! This one is about a robot who trips in the dark and gets unplugged. She ends up outside and makes some friends in the real world.
Kindergarteners listened to an ABC book called Alphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming.
We also started writing our own ABC book. Each student took a letter from the alphabet and turned it into a page for our book. We started with a template that looked like this:
Next week we'll finish up all the letters in the alphabet and start putting the books together!
First graders continued working on their Wonder posters. I can't wait to see what the final products look like! This week, we glued the posters together, taped on a picture of each student, and finished coloring. Next week, we'll start adding compliments to everyone's poster. How cute are these firsties reading together!?
Second grade read The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney. This wordless book won the Caldecott medal in 2010. I love reading wordless books with kids, and this is one of my favorites! We talked about the elements of fables and talked about the moral of the story.
Third graders continued reading A Boy Called Bat as part of the Global Read Aloud project. They also logged into Edmodo this week and started connecting with kids at Fairmount Elementary in Illinois. In Edmodo, kids watched a video that explains autism. There were two video options -- Marvelous Max or What's Up With Nick? Kids explained how the author describes Bat's austism without ever saying that he is autistic. Here are a couple of screenshots that show their thinking:
Fourth graders are learning about their digital footprint. Teaching digital citizenship and responsibility is hard because the tech tools are always changing. We had the kids fill out a survey about what types of devices they use and what they use the devices for.
We had 30 kids say that they use Snapchat, which was the highest social media platform.
This chart is interesting to me. It shows that kids are using their devices for a multitude of things, very similarly to adults, I would guess.
They also watched a video about digital footprint and reflected about what a digital footprint is. Then, they started writing out what their current digital footprint looks like and what they want it to look like when they go to college and get their first jobs. We are going to make digital footprint posters to display during conferences. Parents might just learn something about their kids' digital lives that they didn't know yet! This is what kids said about their parents checking their devices. Granted, kids might not know the extent to which their parents check their phones, but it is what they think.
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