Journal Reflections

This week will be your first reflection journal grade.
Here are a few helpful reminders so you can receive all of the available points!

1. Write in it EVERYDAY.
2. Place your most recent post at the TOP.
3. Place the date/day of week at the top of your post.
4.  A good, solid post will include:
           -a substantial paragraph each day explaining what you accomplished during that class period
           -what went well
           -what didn't go so well

QUESTIONS to answer if you are needing help with what to write...
-what you would do differently if you could do it over again
-what you would change/try again for tomorrow
-if you were the teacher, what comments would you give about your project?
-in what ways did the your work meet the standards for this assignment?
-in what ways did it not meet those standards?
-what was especially satisfying to you about either the process or the finished project?

Hour of Code Week

This week we are participating in 

Hour of Code week!

What is Hour of Code?

The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. 

 One-hour tutorials are available in over 40 languages. 

No experience needed. 

Ages 4 to 104.

I have registered our school as a participant in the 

Hour of Code event.  

We are listed on the map on their site!

In honor of this huge event you will have the freedom to try some new things this week!

As well as working on your current module, you should also choose at least 1 

of these events to try this week.

Choose something that interests you and have fun!

Minecraft and StarWars are the newest they have added.

A for Effort :)

1. Choose from these fun tutorials and coding games at 

https://code.org/learn

2. I have also signed us up for BitsBox

Go to:

bitsbox.com/go 

and get a booklet from me.

You can create apps to make robots dance on your screen, 

paint pictures with cool 3D cubes, and 

program a race car to drive around your screen.

Check out the poster on the back wall to see all the "stamps"

you can use while coding apps in BitsBox.

Love our Robot Teams!

Learning

Congratulations, you are half way done! We have made it through Module 4 and are on to Module 5!
I love how some of you are taking your projects to the next level and are challenging yourself!
My favorite quote from a student during their "Share-Out"..."This module was challenging.  Everything didn't go as I had planned, I spent hours of my life trouble-shooting and problem-solving"....LOVE IT! This is learning!  Just because your project didn't go exactly as planned, LEARNING is the goal!

Friday, October 2, 2015

Happy Friday!
Everyone should be very busy today starting their new module, Module #4.
Reminder: today is reflection journal check...please make sure it is up to date!
Check out these cool Stop Motion projects!  I love how creative people are being!

Jules: http://flipagram.com/f/d4Y1aaI5dC 

Mikayla:  

Laura:

Laura: 

Audrey:

Isaac:

Hunter:

September 25, 2015 Friday Folder Check!

Loved our colorful, creative classroom this week!
If you see Jules, Laura, Audrey, or Mikayla make sure and ask them about their Stop Motion projects....they are very creative and doing a great job! Will be fun to see the final results.
Don't forget...today is folder and reflection journal check day!
Please make sure you have 5 solid reflections from this week and project updates!

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Just a reminder...
Today is our "Friday" for the week so I will be doing folder and reflection journal checks today!
Great job of sharing out yesterday!  Check out some of the great projects in the post below!