Jar of Awesome!

Here's my new Jar of Awesome! I got the idea from Tim Ferriss, an American entrepreneur, and it's all about celebrating the small wins in life. In the younger grades students can choose one positive event that happens that day and then dictate this to the teacher. In the older primary grades students can write the notes themselves. At the end of the day/week, the notes are shared with the class to celebrate and spread positive success vibes!

Year 4 Communication and PowerPoint Presentations

I had a fantastic time teaching for three weeks in 4Keen. As mentioned below, students were very busy completing a variety of Communication unit projects, as well as rehearsing for the whole school stage production, online maths rotations on perimeter and area, and ppts! For the ppts students first wrote journal entry recount/narratives about themselves as an Olympian. After editing and organising this text into six paraphrased sections, one for each slide, they created PowerPoint presentations based on their writing. Nearly all students were new to using this program, so it was exciting to see their enthusiasm to learn a new technology and the creativity in their presentations. Great work. 4Keen!

Perimeter and Area Online Activity: Simple and compound shapes