Exploring Digital Storytelling

The students started their day with an introduction to a new, web based, digital storytelling application, Storybird.   Storybird uses a broad selection of art work to inspire literacy skills.  Each child was assigned a username and password today.  One of the great things about this application is students are able to continue their work from home, at their home school or here in SAGE.  All they have to do is login to the website.  Another great feature of the site is you have the ability to print copies of your child's story on your home printer, share their stories through email, embed them in websites or blogs and even order hard or paperback copies of your child's book.  

The students spent some time exploring the available art work.  When they found an artist's work that inspired a story idea, they began creating their book.

Have your child login and share their story with you.

After lunch and recess, the students met our newest Quirkle, Lindy Light.  After reading our Quirkles book

We conducted an experiment to see how white light can be broken into the color spectrum.  In our experiment we shined a light through a prism and discovered rainbows across our floor. 

Next, we learned/reviewed Bloom's Levels of Thinking.  We discussed Benjamin
Bloom and how his taxonomy was developed.  Then we went through each level and discussed the types of tasks you might be doing and the kind of thinking that needs to occur.  I quizzed them over the levels and was very pleased with their responses!


At the end of the day, I introduced the students to the game SET.  It is a great visual perception game where you have to find sets of three cards in which each of the four attributes (color, shape, number and fill pattern) are all different or all the same.

It is a "tight" thinking game, but it is a lot of fun!

I was very pleased with the boys and girls today!  They really got a lot done!