Sheridan School Showcase

We have posted two new VoiceThread projects over the past couple of days. Lauren A. (aka Vamp E. Pire) gives an informative report on “Vampire Squids” (did you know there was such a thing?) and Katherine R. shares the touching story about her dog “Buster.”

Be sure to visit Miyamoto’s Medium page and enjoy these two outstanding projects!

And, if you have time, please leave a comment. Our students enjoy hearing from our visitors.

Last year as a second grader, my buddy Charlie created a very informative VoiceThread project on Bats. This year he is back with another project on The Wright Brothers.

As I have mentioned before, one of the reasons I love working with these students is because they bring such joy and excitement to their projects. And the one thing I notice time after time, and with every production, is that students become their own critical self-assessors when it is time to record their voice and evaluate their performance.

The last piece of creating a VoiceThread is recording the audio and it is here where they establish these high standards for themselves. Yes, they comb through lots of images to find the ones that are just right, and the editing process of their script often goes through many revisions, but it all leads up to the recording of their script.

I really am proud of them because it is more often the case where the students say, “Can I do it again? I think I can do it better.” Very rarely do I need to encourage them to give it another try because they might have stumbled a little bit. Students love this process and want to do their best because they understand that they have potentially a huge audience.

Be sure to go to the 3rd Grade page and enjoy Charlie’s presentation on The Wright Brothers.

This VoiceThread project on Dolphins, was a labor of love by Grace and Kendall. And I think it shows in their presentation.

This is really a wonderful project and I continue to be amazed at the quality of work being produced by these young students. They always bring such passion and excitement to these “side trips” and it is a real joy to work with them.

We shared Grace and Kendall’s VoiceThread project during our last Sheridan School Sharing Day assembly which has motivated more and more students to research and develop their ideas for their own VoiceThread project.

Stop by the 3rd Grade page to enjoy this marvelous project!

I know the title of this post may amaze a few of you, but it is true! And our students also know about podcasts and search engines and most things relating to technology and learning. So we can either block and filter the Internet content or we can educate our students on how to navigate through this new learning landscape. But I digress…

This post is a simple announcement about a fun project, The Fabulous iPod, created by two of Mrs. Weaver’s third grade students. Go to the 3rd Grade page to view their VoiceThread project.

We can chat about the other stuff later…

Our first VoiceThread project is completed and features two local experts sharing their knowledge of chewing gum.

You will find their report on the 3rd Grade Page.

Four students from Ms. Albinger’s first grade class created a short, informative PowerPoint around their study of plants.

Look at how much our students are learning – all within a 0:44 presentation!

Great work students!

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We captured some fabulous pictures from our first day of school and created a slide show which debuted at Sheridan School’s first student assembly. Dr. Feeney also showed the slide show at the beginning of her presentation during last night’s Curriculum Night event.

If you did not get to enjoy, yet, or simply want to see it again, here it is:

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We have completed our final multimedia project for this school year. Miyamoto’s Podcasts is a collection of four reports written by students from Mrs. Miyamoto’s 4th grade Explore class.

Students began with their written reports and from there we created “enhanced podcasts.” (An enhanced podcast is simply a spoken word audio recording ”enhanced” with images, sound effects and music tracks.)

Our four podcasters and topics are:
Olivia – American Idol
Maikal – The Beatles
Lilly – Otters
Grant – Video Games

Instead of embedding the podcasts here on our Sheridan Showcase, we created a stand alone website to spotlight these wonderful podcasts.

There are two ways to access the new Miyamoto’s Podcasts website:

1. Click here to go directly to Miyamoto’s Podcasts, or
2. Go to our District 67 web page (www.lfelem.lfc.edu) and choose Sheridan Elementary from the Schools pull-down menu. Click on the Mrs. Miyamoto’s Podcasts link located in the column on the right side of the page.

Enjoy the summer!

Yesterday we videotaped 16 of Mrs. Newtown’s third graders reciting poems which they chose to memorize and present to the class. Some poems are familiar, some obscure and some are even original compositions.

You will find the video on the 3rd Grade page.

Enjoy!