Final Week of Summer Technology Program 2015

Thank you Family and Friends for coming to our presentation and spending time with our class!
We are glad you enjoyed our projects!  The Sneaker design was a big hit and easy to do at home.
Just download the app and print out the sneaker or pick from other  worksheets.  Have your children color their worksheet, then use your device to make their picture come to life!

Link to website:Print worksheets from Quivervision website

Here  is the link to the Quiver App that you might enjoy doing at home:

Quiver 3D Coloring App for iPad

Quiver App for Google Play

Make your own Sneaker Design!

Enjoy the rest of the summer!
Visions Upper Elementary Summer Staff

Week Four: Our Time for Music

Ok, Now it's time to listen to music from our time: 2000-2015! The students really enjoyed listening to music from the previous decades, but they have a strong connection to music created during their lifetime. They wanted to hear Hannah Montana and Black Eyed Peas!  How about Lady Gaga!
Students spent time singing and dancing before lunch!

The Rock'n'Roll Mystery Sovled!

Well, we finished our book, The Rock 'n' Roll Mystery today and discovered who stole the Greenfield Four's instruments! Before reading the final chapters, we have made our predictions. Check them out below:

The Guy in the Beret

We were right! The guy in the beret, Jon Emmott was the thief!  Jon was the ex- band member who admitted to stealing the instruments because he was jealous and didn't want the Greenfield Four to succeed. Too bad Jon, you're going to jail and the Greenfield Four did so well at the concert, they got a record contract!

Pop Culture Pictographs

Over the past three weeks, we have learned about American Pop Culture from 1950 to the 1990s. We talked about important people and events like Rosa Parks standing up for civil rights, Hawaii becoming our 50th state, an unpopular war in Vietman, The Woodstock Festival, technology developments; and how we as American's reacted. We discussed how we- especially the American youth expressed ourselves through art, music and fashion.

We used our technology tools to explore and create projects throughout the summer program. Everyone learned something new and each person had their favorite music or art project.  So we decided to create pictographs to show the most popular music, art and technology among our students and staff.  To prepare for the activity, we studied pictographs on Brainpopjr.   We have sought out several very informative videos and activities on Brainpopjr  throughout the summer.

Check out the video on pictographs here:brainpopjr pictograph video

Here's what we created on the SmartBoard to display our data:

Here's what our pictographs revealed about our class:

1. We liked music from the 60s and 70s best.

2. Our favorite artist was Mark Rothko. Students liked how he used color to express emotion.

3. Our favorite technology: an old time record player! Even though we love our iPods, we enjoyed playing records!

An Hour- or more of Coding with Judith

Learning to write computer programs

During our 80s & 90s week, we learned there were significant advances in computer technology. These were the decades of Windows 95, the iMac G3, cell phones and games....Lots of games!  We had handheld and computer games. Everybody did The Oregon Trail, and Nintendo is still a big favorite.  

So we ask, " How does Mario jump and get coins?" Well, we asked our computer programing expert, Miss Judith to come and teach us some basic computer science concepts. 

Students learned that computers do only what you tell them to do. They learned the importance of analyzing a task and how to "program" with careful attention to sequencing actions in the correct order.  They also learned how to evaluate and correct their errors. 

Judith started the lesson with a "hands on" or "unplugged" activity by making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If the students didn't tell Judith the correct order, she could end up with jelly on her belly!

Then we worked as a group to complete a programing activity using the Smartboard at kodable.com

Check the website out here:kodable.com 

We finished up with an individual sequencing activity.  We had a great time learning to code! 

Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

Kodable.com Activity

Quinci

Hope

Jackie

Mikayla

Jerel

Emily

            Thanks Miss Judith :) 

Boxcar Children Mystery

New Suspects in The Rock'n' Roll Mystery!

Well, we up to chapter 9 in Boxcar Children Series #109 - The Rock 'n' Roll Mystery and more suspects continue to emerge.  The Alden children are investigating new leads on the stolen instruments, but don't have any solid evidence. They may have to leave it in the hands of the police. But when Jessie sees Grandfather's glasses on the table, she remembers something important: maybe the thief is wearing a disguise! 

The Aldens review their list of suspects and clues again!  But, we'll keep reading to find out who did it!

RockRoots Concert

                  Today was our assembly performance from Rock Roots Band!   We had a great time learning about the history of American Pop music while dancing and singing along with the band.

RockRoots Performers

 

Go Mr. Perez!

Here's a link learn about the band:Young Audiences of New Jersey- RockRoots