The Act of Re-Applying New Found Skills

The fourth graders have spent the last two months engaged in a major project. With a bit of wiggle room in our schedule, I decided to give the students an opportunity to re-apply the skills they had gained during that project. The only parameter was that the product had to relate to literature in some way.  It was thrilling and re-affirming to watch them choose productive parters and set to work using the technology to create a message about a book.  Have a look at their projects:

All the Answers

All the Answers

The Other Side

 

Beatrix Potter

Box Car Children

 

The Real Boy

The Great Gilly Hopkins

 

Percy Jackson

 

Percy Jackson

Plant a Kiss

 

They also explored broad topics:

Boston

  

Nature

They wrote about their favorite sports figures:

A few students made a movie about their teacher: