Presentations: Thursday Afternoon Group

All of the classes have been working on presentations, focusing on one of the creatures they created for their underwater scene.  This week was the Thursday afternoon class's turn to present their work.  The students were inspired by the quiz that the Kraken folks had on their website, so they asked to learn how to make quizzes that they could include in their presentations.  We hope you try out their quizzes and test your skills!

Octopus by Silas (link)




Acropora humilis by Thomas (link)



Parrot Fish by Marlowe (link).  Marlowe will be adding her quiz a little later.



Thank you for checking out the presentations!  You can see the other classes's presentations here and here.

Presentations -- Wednesday Afternoon Group

All of the classes have been working on presentations, focusing on one of the creatures they created for their underwater scene.  Presentations from the Wednesday morning group can be found here.

Below are the slideshows that the Wednesday afternoon group created.  Students presented their slideshows to their peers so that we could learn more about these different creatures.  The students in this group were learning a lot about making a presentation in Google Slides.  Part of their time was spent researching their creature, but an even larger part was learning how to insert images, make text stand out, and how to incorporate slide transitions.

Angler Fish by London (link)




Salmon by Lagos (link)




Seahorses by Julian (link).




Northern Spotlight Loosejaw by Wyatt (link)




Deep Sea Dragonfish by Ronon (link).  Ronon had a lot of fun with text and image animations on this one -- it's not for the queasy!




Corals by Damon (link)



Sea cucumbers by Zach (link)




Presentations from the Thursday afternoon group will be posted soon, so stay tuned!

Presentations -- Wednesday Morning Group

All of the classes have been working on presentations focusing on one of the creatures they created for their underwater scene.

Here are the slideshows that the Wednesday morning group created.  Students presented their slideshows to their peers so that we could all learn more about these different creatures.

Kraken, The Mythical Beast by Skyler and Benjamin (link) (they also created an interactive website!  You can view it here, but have to be signed into your child's SD67 Google account)



The Colossal Squid by Ellis (link)



The Basket Star by Meghan (link)



Green Sea Turtle by Sienna (link)

Presentations -- Part 2

Here are a few of the things that we did... This Week In Gifted!

Presentations

Last week a few of the Wednesday morning students presented their Communication Mini-Research projects.  This week all of the other students presented theirs.  We learned about:

• Morse Code
• How bees, bats and seals communicate
• The Rosetta Stone and hieroglyphics
• Computer coding (with a focus on Java Script)
• Communication Technology (with a focus on how text messages are sent and received)
• The history of emojis
• How the Enigma Machine works
• Sign Language
• Braille
• How Radios work
• The Commercial Code / Telegraph Code

A sampling of slides from a few different presentations

All of the presentations were created in PowerPoint (with the exception of one student who used Google Slides).  Many of the younger students had not used PowerPoint before, but they quickly became pros!  Students uploaded their PowerPoint presentations to the school district portal.  It is my first time using the portal this way and it worked well.  You child *should* be able to log on from home and show you their project.  If you try following the instructions below and they don't work -- don't panic!  It may be that students don't have access from home.  Just shoot me an e-mail if this is the case.

• go to sd67.bc.ca
• click on 'Portal' in the top right of the menu
• the student will be prompted to sign in with their usual school district username and password
• once in the portal, click on the class, then select 'Assignments' from the top menu
• click on the lone assignment listed there
• now you have the option of previewing the slide show (none of the transitions will show up in preview though which will make your child unhappy--trust me) or downloading the presentation.  If you have PowerPoint on your computer then downloading is the best option because then all of the animations and transitions will work.

After each presentation, audience members asked questions of the presenters and gave appreciations for what they thought the presenters did well.  All of the classes did a good job with this, but the Wednesday afternoon class particularly impressed me with their thoughtful appreciations of each others' work.

Thom(p)son X 2

Last week Mrs. Thomson visited the Wednesday afternoon class and this week she dropped by the Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning groups.  Susan Thomson is the Director of Instruction for Student Services and the Gifted Program is part of her portfolio.  She was able to take in many of the student presentations this week.  Students also shared with her some of the other things we have been learning about including having her participate in the storytelling activity 'When Suddenly!'

Last Class

This week was the last week of classes for the Gifted Program in 2018.  Classes will resume the first week back in January.  We will dive into making radio!

Presentations -- Part 1

When Suddenly...

This week the Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon classes participated in the storytelling game "When Suddenly..."  As a group we build a story sentence by sentence.  One person starts it off and ends their piece with the words "when suddenly..." and that's where the next person takes over.  You really have to be on your toes, keeping track of what has already been said and then moving the story forward from there.  We recorded the stories, and will be doing more of this in the future with an eye to doing some audio editing to really jazz up the stories.

Double Trouble

The Wednesday afternoon class had a guest in the classroom, Mrs. Thomson.  Yes, that's right!  It was Thompson and Thomson.  Susan Thomson is the Director of Instruction for Student Services, and the Gifted Program falls under her purview.  She dropped by to see what the students were up to.  They showed her how to decrypt a Scytale message and then shared with her the work they were doing on their communication mini-research projects.

Baby Talk

We've been looking at the myriad of way that we communicate with one another and this week we watched a short video with two babies having a conversation.  The students picked out the different ways the babies were interacting -- they were doing many of the things that we do, we just couldn't understand what they were saying.  Some of us think that they had a big plan to break into the fridge...  (link)

Presentations

In the Wednesday morning class we started on the student presentations.  We learned about how bees communicate, the history of emojis, the importance of the Rosetta Stone, and the Commercial / Telegraph Code.  More presentations from all of the classes next week!

Thanks for checking in to see what we've been up to... This Week In Gifted!
I'll leave you with a photo from Social Time in the Wednesday afternoon class.