Four Peaks - 3rd Grade

"Chameleon" and "Olympics" are good.

Thought this might be fun for third grade. Fifth is doing it, just changing up the reading form to go a little deeper with it.

Please join us in making February 4, 2015, the first annual Global School Play Day for students in schools around the world, grades Pre-K to 6 or ages 1-12.

This has tons of fun science stuff.

I'm going to this. Anyone want to come? "We welcome elementary school teachers to sign up for a free, high-quality professional development workshop led by Code.org K-5 Facilitators, who are experienced computer science educators. Workshops last 6-7 hours and will prepare you to teach the Code Studio courses for grades K-5. Attendees will also receive free classroom supplies to teach the course."

New tool for creating presentations-free and can be embedded on blogs.

I used it for a rocky's commercial. It was cute and easy!

teacher /student accounts are free

Zack Snyder (Batman v Superman Director) visited the Bat Zone at Cranbrook Institute of Science. He and his family were introduced to the amazing array of animals and educated about the importance of bats and need for conservation action.

I was thinking maybe do a bat unit the week of Halloween, sort of like how we talk about turtles. That week's objective is main idea in informational text.

That's a great idea. I know theres a readworks article about bats, I bet scholastic will have one too. Seems like an easy topic to find resources on.

Design your own posters and graphics for your blog. Free if you use your own images and their free elements. (I sent you an invitation).

Templates for planning iMovie trailers

Math Performance Tasks

Math Performance Tasks

Found some civil rights articles in here

I think this is where we got our reading practice pages for the APTT meeting last year. I didn't realize they had a spelling curriculum that goes alone with the reading stories. The lists have mix of sight words, phonics rules and vocab words, plus dictation sentences for each week. I'm using this for 5th grade, just thought I'd pass it on.

I watched a webinar with Bill Ferriter and his students a few weeks ago. They talked about how they've been using Kiva.org for class project for a few years now. It was totally amazing. You can't watch the webinar without paying now, but he linked to all his resources here. I would be up for doing this as 3rd/5th collaboration if anyone's interested!

I saw that you had commented on twitter and watched most of it! Shoot, I didn't know you'd have to pay later. I would love to do a collaboration project. I saw that Kiva.org last year, but could never figure out how to fit it in, or make it work with just 3rd grade. I'll look again at these resources. What are you thinking about for a timeline?

Ok, now I see what on Earth Kiva club is from the friendship bracelet post. Thought I'd just forgotten. ;) I love the concept. If we could "dig deeper" and unwrap the whole thing, I'd love it!