Dear 4th & 5th Graders, Would you like to turn your love of reading into a chance at $1,000? Theme: How did an author’s work change your view of the world or yourself? Select a fiction or nonfiction book, a poem or play you have read and about which you have strong feelings. (Sorry, no […]
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Trusting the Process
In 3rd grade, art teachers begin to place greater emphasis on the importance of mastering more technical skills in order to help continue the fragile process of developing the whole artist. Although experimentation with new media and processes is forever valued in elementary art-making, and especially in Studio Maury, the older a student gets, the more […]
Electronic Tools, November 2014
Word Fun Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/) Make fun, artistic “word clouds” from text you provide. Tagxedo (http://www.tagxedo.com/) Create your own shape poems out of text. Coding Animated Yeti (https://www.madewithcode.com/project/animation) Animate a yeti and give it simple commands. Angry Birds (https://learn.code.org/hoc/1) Basic programming with the angry birds. Solve puzzles. Lightbot (http://lightbot.com/hocflash.html) Help Lightbot light up all the blue […]
#ObserveEverything October
OBSERVE…. EVERYTHING!2nd graders complete an #ObserveEverything challenge. This month’s work was inspired by one of my favorite programs on National Public Radio– Science Friday. Science Friday has a Science Club online. For one month, they asked pe…