Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015

Denise Shekleton
Heather Klenke
Katie Mahr

Denise is prepping students for research on WONDER project. Classes are in different spots
currently. All classes have done “key word searching” and all classes have done “science flix”.
Some classes have begun researching their topic.

Heather is working with students on brainstorming a condition for their topic & choosing an
appropriate topic. Once students have conducted their research with Denise, Heather will be
guiding students to put their information in “google slides”. Heather will be making up Katie
Mahr’s tech class (as it will be missed on Friday) on Thursday, from 1:;30-2:15.

Heather is working on finding relevant apps to assist in the coming science and social studies
topics for 2nd quarter. She is also looking ahead to gather math resources in multiplication,
division, fractions and decimals as these will be HUGE topics come 2nd semester!

For the month of December, 4th grade will be focusing on Greek Mythology in literacy. Heather
has some awesome ideas for projects such as Greek Mythology Trading Cards.

November 10th, 2015

Heather Klenke
Jenny Vsetecka
Lorrinda Kisley
Katie Mahr

Technology/Library-Media: Wonder Project. Allow students time to work on their research for
their project. They will be constructing their projects next week (16-20). Inquiry for unit 2 - skip it
and do the Wonder Project instead.

BLT - Is it possible to create to “conference folder” with ALL documents to copy, pass it out…
etc.

Social Studies in November - Midwest and Southeast.

Mythology for Literacy - weeks of December 7th and 14th

Lorrinda will send Greek stuff….

STEM Science - 17th-18th Just participation grade

Holiday theme STEM day- December 21st
Holiday party/clean- December 22nd

January 4th-
Unit 4 of Lead (Space)
Science-Space Unit
Planet Report??

Katie is gone Thursday the 19th and Friday the 20th.

December 15, 2015

● Science- Space (after break)
● Mythology
○ Finish Trading Card assignment after break
■ Research during Library the week we come back from break.
Work on Trading card during Tech.
○ Library Website- under Library Lessons/4th grade
■ https://sites.google.com/a/howard-
winn.k12.ia.us/mediacenter/library-lessons
● Jan. 11-15, 2016 Space- planet research using template
● Jan. 18- 22, 2016 Autobiography/Biography
○ Tech/Library connection . . . in library we will discuss the difference
between autobiography and biography. (Use Martin Luther King, Jr. as
an example)
○ Students will choose a person “from a hat.” Mrs. Shekleton will
provide picture book biographies from the school library and
Keystone.
○ Students will write a biography and present an autobiography via
green screen.

January 5, 2015
Heather Klenke
Denise Shekleton
Katie Mahr
Lorrinda Kisley
Jenny Vsetecka
This week in library and technology students are working on trading cards.
Students will then put into Showbie and they will be printed off.

Week of January 18th-

Students will be doing biography things in tech and library. They will present
as an autobiography. Students will pick names from “out of a hat”. They will use a
green screen as a background to present. Denise will take them to Keystone to look
up background images.