You are Invited...

It's almost that time!  We have been spending LOTS of time in class - in all areas - working on getting our Wax Museum project ready to go.  This week we planned our costumes by looking at pictures of our famous Americans.  We talked about what we would need to look like that person and what each person would be holding or have near them to represent what they had accomplished.

We are also creating an INTERACTIVE  timeline of famous Americans in PowerPoint.  Each timeline point will be a hotspot and when you click on the spot, it will pull up a video (of the student in costume!) telling about that person.

In order to do this we had to practice making a video - that was fun!  We did a practice run and had one person hold the ipad while videotaping someone else talking about themselves.  We watched the videos together and learned A LOT about how to make a good video.  We created our "Top Ten Tips" and posted them on the whiteboard the next day, before we tried again.

Our videos were MUCH better the second time around!  Next week we'll spend time writing our quick informational speeches for both or wax museum and our videos.

If you didn't get the invitation to visit our Wax Museum (sent in Friday folders this week), here's the information:

NOTE:  The Wax Museum is the project Ms. Gamache's readers are doing.  If your child is part of Mrs. Dunn or Miss Carta's reading or writing classes, they have a different project planned :-)

Visitors to the Wax Museum will be treated to an interactive display of famous Americans throughout history that come alive with the touch of a button.  We hope you can join us!