This audio-visual music project began with Heidi Renauld’s sixth grade students choosing a Shel Silverstein poem, one rich with visual and aural images. Students recorded their narrations into the Garageband program, then explored both Soundbible.com and the Garageband library to include music and sound ideas to enhance the poem’s mood and imagery. Students then created a video in iMovie, selecting appropriate visual images and incorporating their audio portion as the soundtrack. This lesson incorporated performing, improvising, composing, arranging, notating, listening, analyzing and describing music, as well as understanding music in relation to language and culture.

Tanner and Veda Ruth – Enter This Deserted House

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Griff and Devon – Boa Constrictor

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Tessa and Emma M. – The Long Scarf

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Ben and Ella – Dirty Feet

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Linden and Shehim – Mirror, Mirror

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Luka – The Pirate

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Ava and Geir – What’s In the Sack?

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Dara and Emma P. – Snap

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This audio-visual music project began with Heidi Renauld’s fifth grade students choosing a Shel Silverstein poem. Students recorded their narrations into the Garageband program, then explored and strategized to include music and sound ideas to enhance the poem’s mood and imagery in compelling ways. They created a “score” or cue sheet to plan and document their piece of work. This lesson incorporated performing, improvising, composing, arranging, notating, listening, analyzing and describing music, as well as understanding music in relation to language and culture.

Ben and Gavin – A Car with Legs

Bobby and Ezekiel – Surprise

Grace and Alysia – Recipe for A Hippopotamus Sandwich

James and Myles -Ourchestra

Maria and Aurelia – Santa’s Helper

Matthew and Yashiel – Everything On It

Scout and Kelslyn – Medusa

Japhet – Burp

Yesterday Ruth Love Barer’s preschool class presented their end of year musical celebration to family and friends. Always a great show to watch!

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As part of their fifth grade curriculum, the students learn about the world’s continents – location, size, people, natural and man-made landforms, climate, countries, famous places, and natural resources. Mr. Stewart’s students were challenged by “Information Design Systems” (IDS) to work in teams to research and create a website for upper elementary students on a specific continent. As part of the design work, the students developed a continent template in which future classes would continue to research the specific continent and extend their research into countries within each continent.

Students were responsible for researching and presenting their information in a format that was visually striking, attention grabbing, age-appropriate (grades 4-6), factually accurate and easy to navigate. Each group was expected to create a home page, map page, people page, landforms page, and resources/climate page. They also created a countries page which future students will use to continue the research.

To view each website, click on the images below:

South America – Brazil created by Grace, Ezekiel and Kelslyn

 

 

 

 

Asia – Nepal created by Alysia, James and Ben

 

 

 

 

Europe – Italy created by Aurelia, Maria and Japhet

 

 

 

 

Australia/Oceania – Papua New Guinea by Matthew, Scout and Bobby

 

 

 

 

Africa – Algeria created by Myles, Gavin and Yashiel

It was a beautiful day for our annual Field Day! Below is a slideshow of the day’s events.

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Kindergarten presented in the cafeteria their persuasive writing pieces on “The Best Dessert Ever!” All the classes were invited to stop by to listen to their writing pieces and sample their desserts! The best kind of writing celebration! Click on image to view it.

The students in Lisa Kuerzel’s second grade class held a math and science symposium. Students presented research findings from their science experiments, showed their lab reports, and demonstrated their experiments. They also presented lessons on a math skill they learned this year. A great job by all! Click on each image to view it.

In one of the last computer lab sessions of the school year, Tracey Supple’s class created short quicktime movies of their favorite part of third grade. The KidPix software program has a new feature for designing 3D movies. We are still learning how to best create and export them! Voices are still a challenge and also the timing of the voices but it’s a lot of fun to learn! Enjoy!

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Tracey Supple’s Grade 3 class celebrated their opinion and information writing with a publication celebration. The opinion pieces focused on a change that was needed in our school or our community or a noteworthy person that needed to be appreciated. Students were both proud and excited to share their great writing with parents and friends!

The students in Alissa Alteri Shea enjoyed an Author’s Celebration with family and friends. Students read an excerpt from one of their favorite writing pieces. The first graders have become very talented writers!