Fourth Grade Using Google Drive

Mr. Haber's fourth grade Social Studies class has been using Google Drive throughout the year. They began using Google Presentation for an Explorer Project.

Then they started using it to complete various homework assignments that Mr. Haber shared with them. They wrote a persuasive essay in school and at home, and they will continue working in Google Drive as the rest of the year continues. All fourth graders have google accounts, but their email has been disabled. 

Scratch Comes to Pingry!

Ms. Berg is teaching Scratch to students in grades 2-4 for an Enrichment class. She began during Winter Enrichment and is now continuing her class through Spring Enrichment. Students are using the Chromebooks to program.

1-D Collaborates to Make a Class Poem

1-D Students collaborated on their iPads to illustrate one of their favorite poems, Crown of the Beach.

Students were given a line to illustrate. They used Drawing Pad to illustrate their line and type the words from their line. Then they saved their image to Dropbox. The images were then imported to Book Creator and emailed to the parents.

Click here to view the epub:

https://drive.google.com/a/pingry.org/?tab=jo#search/crown%20of%20the%20beach

KMS creates Their Own Movie!

KMS teachers wanted their students to be able to use the iPad to make their own video. The class had gathered facts about the life of Ezra Jack Keats and they wanted to present those facts to the parents at the Ezra Jack Keats presentation. So, we partnered the students up and let them practice their lines/facts about Ezra Jack Keat's life. In groups of four, the students used the mini iPad to film two students. The pairs, then added their clip to iMovie 

and they show was put together. Good job, KMS!

Check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgghAvL6lNo

Ezra Jack Keats Slideshow KMS

KMS worked with Drawing Pad 

 to illustrate 3-4 favorite parts of their favorite Ezra Jack Keat's book. They used the paint tools to draw a picture of their favorite part and the Typing tool to type their favorite parts and what they noticed . Then, KMS uploaded their images to DropBox

 where I was able to add ALL of the images to a slideshow in Explain Everything.

Once the slideshow was in order, KMS recorded their own voices to their own images. Finally, we  uploaded it to YouTube to be shared with parents. Check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUM6OWYfFQA

Ezra Jack Keats Slideshow KSP

KSP worked with Drawing Pad 

 to illustrate their favorite part in an Ezra Jack Keats book. They used the paint tools to draw a picture of their favorite part and the Typing tool to type their favorite part. Then, KSP uploaded their image to DropBox

 where I was able to add ALL of the images to a slideshow in Explain Everything.

Once the slideshow was in order, KSP recorded their own voice to their own image. Finally, we  uploaded it to YouTube to be shared with parents. Check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTAlv5Oj4ws

Second Grade Alaska Animal Bubbles

Alaska stations were underway in January and February for the Pingry second graders. Stations were similar to the activities completed in the beginning of the year for dinosaurs, but with some adjustments. Mrs. Baydin and Mr. Christian worked hard with the second graders on creating a mural of the three different landscapes in Alaska. Second graders then created scale models of the Alaska animal they researched, and I helped them create a video of their animal teaching passerby's interesting facts. Each student took a picture of their scale model with an iPad mini. Then, they imported the picture into an app called, ChatterPix.

ChatterPix allows you to make the mouth of an object move so that it "speaks". Check out some of the videos created by the second graders: 

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0zKiRgpvuGfSG9uRmppTVh5Wnc&usp=sharing

Third Grade State Projects Underway

The third graders started their BIG state projects in February. Some students are using Book Creator to make an ebook. They are also creating movies in iMovie and making/editing pictures in Drawing Pad and Explain Everything. Other third graders are using Keynote to create an individual presentation and some are using Google Docs to create things  to be printed and put into a binder. Chromebooks are being used to gather information and set up the binders.

All three classes are working hard! STAY TUNED TO SEE SOME OF THEIR PRESENTATIONS!!

Fifth Grade China Unit- Science and Technology

Mr. Ski's fifth graders worked in groups to research and present information on a Chinese invention.  They used the electronic databases from the lower school library, websites, and information provided by Mr. Ski to complete these projects. Using Google Presentation, each group created eight slides to be presented to their science class. Students used the comments and messaging sections of Google Presentation to interact with each other in school and at home.

Short Hills Update

Things have been busy in Short Hills. Mr. Haber's fourth grade Social Studies class worked on Explorer projects in google drive. Each fourth grade student worked on a google presentation for a famous explorer.  Using books provided by the lower school library and the library database, Marshall Cavendish, each fourth grade student researched information on the explorer’s life. Google Presentation was available to students during school and at home under the school-wide google drive account.  Students shared their finished presentation with their classes.

The Kidspiration App (on the iPads) was also used for story planning and character trait analysis in fourth grade reading classes with Mrs. Casey.