Over 800 students and staff from the school attended the Wonder Wall Dedication Ceremony on Monday June 8 at 9:30. The celebration included live jazz from the school jazz band, multimedia projects, poetry reading and the signing of the wall by artist George Hoffman. The students were happy to meet the person who did the wonderful illustrations on the wall.
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The first group has finalized their project and the interviewed a second grader who wanted to know about dogs. The sixth graders in their project showed her how to use Destiny to locate books in the library. This will be part of the Wonder Wall Dedication on June 8.
I am hoping to get fourth graders to write poems to be part of the ceremony.
Posted by Beth Auwarter at 4:00 PM
The sixth graders today were using audacity to record their own voices giving advice for the second graders they intereview about how to use the library to find answers to questions that they wonder about. Lots of singing going on, too. We are trying to avoid posting copyrighted music. Some students are trying out Garage Band and some are creating simple songs using
http://www.sfskids.org/templates/musicLabF.asp?pageid=14Camera skills are improving with uploading pictures and movies causing no troubles. I wonder how big these files will be? It is interesting to see how serious the groups are to move forward to create a project. We may even be able to upload our projects to a Philadelphia TV station looking for student multimedia samples. We will have to get parent permissions before we upload. Target date is after the Wonder Wall dedication tentatively scheduled for June 8 at 9:30 AM.
Students learned to use print screen and paste to PowerPoint, edit the picture with cropping tools and save the PPT as a jpeg. Lots of learning going on.
Posted by Beth Auwarter at 8:00 PM
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Second graders missed precious recess time to come to library to meet with groups of sixth graders. They were asked questions about what they are curious about or what they want to learn about. The sixth graders are very busy with cameras taking pictures and movies of the interviews and they have microphones and and using audacity to record the interviews. It is interesting to see how serious and focused the sixth graders are and what good role models they are for the little ones. Hopefully every group has some audio and photos or video stored in their shared drive and they can work on their Movie Maker projects next week. The best wonder I heard was a student wants to learn about colors. I wonder how the sixth graders will guide her with this question.
Posted by Beth Auwarter at 9:00 PM
The students looked at some projects the sixth graders did last year to learn more about the Olympics in Bejing. Next week the students will meet their second graders to interview. The groups are formed and some are experimenting with audacity and Garage Band. Some are singing their music and we have one group ready to record a piano solo.
Posted by Beth Auwarter at 9:50 PM
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During the school year 2007-08 a class of third graders to the library and we discussed "topics they are curious about." They didn't seem to come to library with a learning goal in mind. It appeared that they didn't "wonder" at all. They just wanted to get a book and go on a computer to play games.
After hearing Jamie McKenzie speak to librarians and teachers at our January Inservice Day, I read Learning to Wonder, To Wonder, to Learn and decided that I was going to have to "do something" to get my kids to WONDER!
Council Rock High School North has beautiful painted quotes on the wall, and I inquired about the artist George Hoffman.
In November of 2008, each class submitted topics they wonder about and I sent a list ot George who created sketches of a knight, spaceman, whales, dinosaurs and a ship. In February of 2009 he started painting a mural on the library wall at the Maureen M. Welch Elementary School Library.
Posted by Beth Auwarter at 8:00 PM
