Winter Holidays

Hello Students:

Today you will complete a lesson about Winter Holidays in 

Brain Pop. 

                            

Click on this link to watch the movie. When you have finished watching the film, sign into your Google Classroom and complete the quiz.

Username: tfbrain

Password: tfbrain

Dreamscape

Hello Students:

Today you are going to sign into Dreamscape and join our class.  Here are the steps you’ll need to join:

1)         Sign onto your computer.

2)         Click on the Grade 4 hyperlink that will take you to Dreamscape.

3)        Click on “New Account”.

4)         Your class code is:

           DXFU0O

)         Enter your first name and last initial.

6)        Type in the "students21"

7)         Choose "Grade 4"

8)         Write down your username and password and log in.

Google Slides

Hello Students:

Today you are going to make a slide for a class slide presentation using the photos we took in iPhoto.  Here are the steps you’ll need to make your slide:

1)         Sign onto your computer.

2)         Click on the Google Classroom hyperlink that will take you to the page to sign in.

3)     Sign into Google Classroom in the new tab.

4)         Open a new Slide Presentation.

5)         Name the slide presentation with your name.

6)         Choose a format for your slide.

7)       Copy and Paste your photo into your slide.  You can find it in your Google Classroom. Click on the photo to open it and then right click to copy it and press Ctrl + v to paste it into your slide.

8)         Re-size your photo.

9)     In the text box below your photo, write your name and one thing you like to do.

10)     When you are finished, share your slide with me by sending it to: 

salmaas@ps138school.com

I will assemble all your slides into one presentation.  In the next class we will view the presentation and reflect on the steps you took to complete the project.

Thanksgiving

Hello Students:

Today you will complete a lesson about Thanksgiving in 

Brain Pop. 

  

Click on this link to watch the movie. When you have finished watching the  film, sign into your Google Classroom and complete the quiz.

Username: tfbrain

Password: tfbrain

Copy & Paste

Hello Students:

Today you are going to practice copying and pasting text from a blog onto a WORD document.

Click here to access the Check Your Writing blog.

Highlight and right click the five rules of writing.

Click “copy”.

Open a new blank WORD document.

Click the cursor and the page, right click and click “paste”

Highlight all the text and change the font to point 12.

Align the text to the left.

Raise your hand to show me your work.

Sign into your Google Classroom and complete the  Copy and Paste Reflection.

Google Slide

Hello Students:

Today you are going to make a slide for a class slide presentation using the photos we took in iPhoto.  Here are the steps you’ll need to make your slide:

1)         Sign onto your computer.

2)         Click on the Google Classroom hyperlink that will take you to the page to sign in.

3)     Sign into Google Classroom in the new tab.

4)         Open a new Slide Presentation.

5)         Name the slide presentation with your name.

6)         Choose a format for your slide.

7)       Copy and Paste your photo into your slide.  You can find it in your Google Classroom. Click on the photo to open it and then right click to copy it and press Ctrl + v to paste it into your slide.

8)         Re-size your photo.

9)     In the text box below your photo, write your name and one thing you like to do.

10)     When you are finished, share your slide with me by sending it to: 

stevena@ps138school.com

I will assemble all your slides into one presentation.  In the next class we will view the presentation and reflect on the steps you took to complete the project.

Copy & Paste

Hello Students:

Today you are going to practice copying and pasting text from a blog onto a WORD document.

Click here to access the Check Your Writing blog.

Highlight and right click the five rules of writing.

Click “copy”.

Open a new blank WORD document.

Click the cursor and the page, right click and click “paste”

Highlight all the text and change the font to point 12.

Align the text to the left.

Raise your hand to show me your work.

Sign into your Google Classroom and complete the  Copy and Paste Reflection.

Halloween

Hello Students:

Today you will complete a lesson about Halloween in 

Brain Pop. 

Click on this link to watch the movie and complete the quiz.

Username: tfbrain

Password: tfbrain

Google Slide

Hello Students:

Today you are going to make a slide for a class slide presentation using the photos we took in iPhoto.  Here are the steps you’ll need to make your slide:

1)         Sign onto your computer.

2)         Click on the Google Classroom hyperlink that will take you to the page to sign in.

3)     Sign into Google Classroom in the new tab.

4)         Open a new Slide Presentation.

5)         Name the slide presentation with your name.

6)         Choose a format for your slide.

7)       Copy and Paste your photo into your slide.  You can find it in your Google Classroom. Click on the photo to open it and then right click to copy it and press Ctrl + v to paste it into your slide.

8)         Re-size your photo.

9)     In the text box below your photo, write your name and one thing you like to do.

10)     When you are finished, share your slide with me by sending it to: 

stevena@ps138school.com

I will assemble all your slides into one presentation.  In the next class we will view the presentation and reflect on the steps you took to complete the project.

Christopher Columbus

Hello Students:

Today you will watch a movie and complete some activities in Brain Pop

about 

Christopher Columbus.

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Click on this link to watch the movie and complete the quiz.

Raise your hand when you are finished.

Username: tfbrain

Password:  tfbrain

Prodigy Math

Welcome Students!

I will not be here today.  You will spend the period working on your math skills in Prodigy Math.

Click on this link and sign in using your Google Classroom username and password.

At the end of the session, log out of Google Classroom and shut down your computer. 

The First Inhabitants of North America

Hello Students:

On Monday, October 14^th, we will have a day off from school to celebrate Columbus Day.  Columbus is credited with "discovering" America and yet there were people living here for thousands of years before that. Today you are gong to read about the first inhabitants of North America and answer some questions in a quiz in your Google Classroom.

The first inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere were Native Americans. It is thought that they originally came from Asia (Siberia) by way of the Bering Strait about 40,000 years ago. The hunters and gatherers constantly walked south (away from the glaciers) in search of food. 

One of the animals hunted were mammoths, a giant elephant-like animal

They probably followed them over the land bridge shown on the map above and eventually got to what is now Canada, the United States and points south.. They stopped and settled in certain regions, perhaps, because they found a good geographic location. Food, water, and a means of transportation were all considerations. If they found a place with a Spring and Summer season long enough to grow crops, these early hunters and gatherers could become farmers. This permitted them to stay in one place, to form villages.

How do we know how long the Native Americans have been here? Archaeologists have done some digging and have come up with some very old artifacts. For instance, they have found artifacts that date the presence of Native Americans in present day New York State back 11,500 years! The people did not write anything down then, so the only clues we have are what the scientists find buried in the ground. They have found such things as stone axes, projectile points (arrowheads), pottery or stone bowls, and fire rings. With knowledge, an archaeologist can date these materials and tell when people lived where. 

DEFINITIONS:

Inhabitant- person who lives in an area

Bering Strait - a narrow body of water separating Asia and North America at Alaska

Native American - an American Indian

Archaeologist- a scientist who studies artifacts to learn about the past.

Artifact - an object made by people who lived in the past.

Click here to sign into your Google Classroom and take the quiz.

When you have finished answering the questions, raise your hand and I will check your answers before you submit them.

Sign In To Google Classroom

Example:

Welcome Students!

Today we are going to get you logged in to your Google Classroom.

Your username is:  

1) The number "21"
2) Your first name  
3) The first initial of your last name  
4)  @ps138school.com

NO SPACES AND NO CAPITAL LETTERS!

Example: 21johnl@ps138school.com

Your password is: students21

Sign in to Classroom at classroom.google.com.

On the homepage, click "Join class".

After you have joined your class, you will complete a short survey about yourself.

Procedure:  

1)      Open and read the survey posted by the teacher, which asks you to answer a series of questions about yourself. 

2)      Answer the questions.

3)      Check spelling and grammar using the rubric posted here.

Welcome Grade 4!

Topic: Introduction to Technology

My mission is to promote teaching and learning as core human activities dependent on relationship, passion and vision--in service to creativity, personal growth and a sustainable world.

Instructor: Mr. Almaas

Hello Students:

Welcome to our Technology class. You are living during a time when we are experiencing the largest increase in expressive capability in human history. It will be a function of this class to help you become effective communicators in the media of your time.

We will be meeting here and online every week where we will use and study technology.  

Today you will be assigned a seat here in our classroom, we'll go over the rules and then jump right in to our first assignment.

The Rules Of Our Class:

1) Be respectful of yourself and others.

2) Raise your hand to speak during class.

3) Listen quietly while others are speaking.

4) Always do your best!

Procedure for entering the classroom:

a)       Form two lines in the hall outside the classroom

b)      Sit down in your assigned seat.

c)       DO NOT turn on the computers or put on the headphones until asked to do so.

d)      Listen quietly to hear what the days assignment is.

Procedure for leaving the classroom:

a)       Sign out of Google Classroom

b)      Shut down your computer from onscreen menu.

c)       DO NOT turn off the computer using the power button.

d)      DO NOT power off the monitor.

e)       Stand up, push in your chair and go out the back way to line up by the door when asked to do so.

Assessment

Each week you will be given an assignment to complete in class.  I will keep track of your work in a Google Doc that looks like this:

Technology Rubric

Got it! = The main idea of the assignment is clear and related to the purpose or theme of the project.

Working on it! = The main idea of the assignment is more or less clear and related to the purpose or theme of the project.

Needs Help= Completed week's assignment approaching standard. The completed assignment does not have a clear purpose or central theme. 

Absent = Assignment was not completed.

Final Grade Rubric

All grades of “Got it!” for the projects and weekly assignments, along with good behavior, during a grading period will result in a final grade of:

4

A mixture of “Got it!” and “Working on it!” for the projects and weekly assignments, along with good behavior, during a grading period will result in a final grade of:

3

A mixture of “Working on it!” and “Needs help” for the projects and weekly assignments and questionable classroom behavior during a grading period will result in a final grade of:

2

A collection of “Needs help” for the projects and weekly assignments along with unexcused absences from class and poor classroom behavior during a grading period will result in a final grade of:

1

TODAY'S ACTIVITY

Today we have gone over the rules and procedures of our class, you watched a PowerPoint presentation introducing you to myself and our class and you learned how to sign in and access the online activities for this class.

Now you will notice New York State's geographical location in the United States by completing an online activity where it's up to you to point out where the 50 states go on a map of the United States:

Click the hyperlink above and begin.

Good luck!