Monday, February 26, 2018
Staff "Hot Reads"
Can you correctly match the staff member with his/her favorite book or series? Turn in you guesses to Mrs. Speer by Friday, March 2 for a chance to win a book ($10 or less) from the Norway Book Fair. Pick up your copy of the form in the Norway library!
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Mrs. Speer's Reading Log 2.22.18
Month
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Title
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Author
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Genre*
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Rating^
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Jan.
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Lincoln’s Grave Robbers
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Steve Sheinkin
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Non-fiction
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5 Stars
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Jan.
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A Long Walk to Water
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Linda Sue Park
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Based on a True Story
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4 Stars
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Feb.
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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
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Jennifer Armstrong
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Non-fiction
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3.5 Stars
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Feb.
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Desert Dust Up: Wheelnuts! Craziest Race on Earth #1
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Knife & Packer
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Adventure, Graphic Novel
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2.5 Stars
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Feb.
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The Fairytale Detectives {The Sisters Grimm #1}
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Michael Buckley
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Science Fiction, Mystery
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5 Stars
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*I am not using the exact genres you might find the book in in our Norway Elementary library. I am trying to give you an idea about the book.
^Rating System:
★
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I didn't like it.
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★★
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It was ok.
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★★★
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I liked it; it's not great, but I don't want to say its bad, either.
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★★★★
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I really liked it; I had a hard time putting it down to do other things.
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★★★★★
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It was amazing - I see it being appreciated by people who don't normally read this type of book.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Priority Standards for Feb. 20-27
4th grade Lab
Typing to support Language Arts Standards
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
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4th grade STEAM
4B/4N/4T - Characteristic Study & animal creation
4K/4H - Group Charades
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5th grade Lab
Tinkercad - finish creating a 3D printing project
OR Typing to support Language Arts Standards
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
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5th grade STEAM
Finishing - The Sphero Games presents
“Battle Bots”
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6th grade Lab
Tinkercad - creating a 3D printing project
21.6-8.TL.1 Demonstrate creative thinking in the design and development of innovative technology products and problem solving.
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6th grade STEAM
Teamwork with Breakout EDU
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Thursday, February 15, 2018
Create a STEAM logo Contest
This is a contest for Norway students to create a logo for our STEAM Space/Lab. Here are couple websites that have examples (you cannot copy these, but could do something similar): here (scroll down a little) or here.
Rules:
Here is an example Mrs. Speer came up with using images from iClipart.
Rules:
- All artwork needs to original or be images you have permission to reuse (i.e. images found on iClipart* which we have a license for).
- Students can work individually or in a small group.
- Logo can be either a digital file (i.e. PowerPoint, Google Doc) or on paper (i.e. drawn by hand).
- The logo must include the letters "STEAM" in some way. The letters in STEAM stand for: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics.
- The winner(s) will be chosen by a vote of staff and students. The creator(s) will not be identified on the artwork during the voting.
- All artwork is due March 1. Late entries will not be accepted.
Turn in paper copies to Mrs. Speer or bring to the computer lab. Share digital (Google) files with Mrs. Speer, save them to the shared M: drive, or email them to Mrs. Speer.
Here is an example Mrs. Speer came up with using images from iClipart.
*You can login to iClipart by going to the Grant Wood AEA Online Resources page and selecting iClipart under the heading "Images & Presentations". Our Username is 0609norw and you may contact Mrs. Speer for the password.
Priority Standards for Feb. 8-16
4th grade Lab
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
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4th grade STEAM
Play Sphero Mini Golf
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5th grade Lab
Tinkercad - finish creating a 3D printing project
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
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5th grade STEAM
The Sphero Games presents
“Battle Bots”
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6th grade Lab
Tinkercad - creating a 3D printing project
21.6-8.TL.1 Demonstrate creative thinking in the design and development of innovative technology products and problem solving.
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6th grade STEAM
Sphero Mini Golf (final time!)
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Saturday, February 3, 2018
6th Grade Digital Citizenship Comics
Parts of this project hit all 3 of our Priority Standards!
21.6-8.TL.1 Demonstrate creative thinking in the design and development of innovative technology products and problem solving.
-Students worked individually or with a partner to plan and create a comic to share information about Digital Citizenship.
-Students learned to use PowToon to create their comic. They had to evaluate the length needed for each slide to be read and adjust the animation.
21.6-8.TL.3 Plan strategies utilizing digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
-Students used information gathered from class discussion, websites, videos and experience to choose a topic and plan their comic.
21.6-8.TL.5 Understand the legal and ethical issues of technology as related to individuals, cultures, and societies.
-The topic of the comics was Digital Citizenship.
-Students included links to websites used to gather information.
*I will update as I get the final few links.
21.6-8.TL.1 Demonstrate creative thinking in the design and development of innovative technology products and problem solving.
-Students worked individually or with a partner to plan and create a comic to share information about Digital Citizenship.
-Students learned to use PowToon to create their comic. They had to evaluate the length needed for each slide to be read and adjust the animation.
21.6-8.TL.3 Plan strategies utilizing digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
-Students used information gathered from class discussion, websites, videos and experience to choose a topic and plan their comic.
21.6-8.TL.5 Understand the legal and ethical issues of technology as related to individuals, cultures, and societies.
-The topic of the comics was Digital Citizenship.
-Students included links to websites used to gather information.
*I will update as I get the final few links.
Mattison
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Juhl
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Donald
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Janss
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Furler
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Priority Standards for Jan. 31-Feb. 7
4th grade Lab
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
Finish 3D printing project using Tinkercad
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4th grade STEAM
Olympics planning
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5th grade Lab
Tinkercad - creating a 3D printing project
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
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5th grade STEAM
The Sphero Games presents
“Battle Bots”
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6th grade Lab
Sharing Digital Citizenship Comic Strip
*Check out the Blog Post with links!
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6th grade STEAM
Sphero Mini Golf
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