Grade 3 Architecture Adventure Program at Lincoln

Grade 3 Architecture Adventure Project

Third grade students from Lincoln, participating in the Oak Park Educational Foundations Architecture Adventures Program, designed their own neighborhood using Google SketchUp. With the guidance of architect and former Lincoln parent Mark Klancic, the students created several street scenes around Lincoln School. To view the creation process and student work, please see below. 

The Inspiration- an architectural tour of south Oak Park

Students start to create their own homes in Google SketchUp

The finished product- some awesome movies of our work!

Lincoln Architects Group 1

Lincoln Architects Group 2

Lincoln Architects Group 3

Lincoln Architects Group 4

Lincoln Architects Group 5

AW80S

AW80S (Around the World with Eighty Schools) is a new an exciting project for the students at Lincoln.  Our goal is to have 80 Skype conversations with 80 schools from around the world.  Some of these conversations will be linked to major learning projects we will join.  Others will be simple meet-and-greet activities.  Regardless, our students will have many opportunities to experience learning and communicating with dozens of students from around the world.  Please click on the PROJECTS tab above to see which schools we have already communicated within the past year.

New Laptop...More Ideas to Engage Students

All district 97 teachers will be getting a NEW Dell laptop this year as a part of the district's updated technology plan.  I plan on using my laptop everyday as a tool to increase student involvement in my classroom.  Exactly how I am going to do that unfolds everyday as I am working over the summer on my classroom blog.  Here I will keep track of all the wonderful and exciting projects the kids are doing throughout the year.  To start with, I will once again be coordinating the Lincoln School Tech Club- which I started last year after GVC ended.  Students just kept showing up at the computer lab every day and I decided that they must really love technology and want to learn more.  I will be starting with the fifth graders this year and hopefully include other grades as the years go by.  The fifth graders will be participating in the Global Virtual Classroom (GVC) Contest again this year as we have done for the past eight years (click on the the GVC tab at the top to see some awesome work by Lincoln students).  We will also be collaborating with Ein Ganim School in Israel as  part of their Global Dreamers project and Harrison Elementary School in Warsaw, Indiana.  It is going to be an exciting year of learning with technology.
Mr.K

Lincoln School's GVC Team is Recognized for Outstanding Website in International Competition

Oak Park Schools - Four Wins in International Web Contest

Article about District 97 Winners from Triblocal.com

Global Virtual Classroom Contest (GVC) is a free online collaborative learning project that fosters creativity, cross cultural understanding, helping others, and teaches IT and website design skills amongst students working together from around the world.

Sponsored by GSBI [Give Something Back International], the GVC program provides an opportunity for primary and secondary school students from different countries to work with and learn from students in other countries, as they collaboratively design a website on a topic of their choosing. Teams are comprised of either three primary or three secondary schools from different countries. A panel of international judges evaluates the final work and determines the winners.

Student efforts are judged for content, presentation, collaboration, and a helping focus. The helping focus was added to encourage students to also demonstrate achievement of a helpful objective such as personal, social and/or environmental responsibility or support for a worthy cause.

Each division has 3 prize winners and 3 special merit awards.
Oak Park Schools received 4 of these awards in the 2009-2010 contest.

In the primary division [grades 3-7]:
Julian Middle School's 7th graders won 1st prize with the site: Save Earth! Partners from: Olean, New York and New Delhi, India. Teacher: Janet Barnstable

Lincoln School's 5th graders won 3rd prize with the site: Imaginary Island. Partners from: Florida, and Taiwan. Lincoln School was also recognized for EXCEPTIONAL Helping Focus for their work in creating the Haiti House Project. Teacher: Matt Kuntz.
http://gvc0905.gvc09.virtualclassroom.org/

Mann School's 4th graders won a special merit award for the site: Animal Stories. Partners from: New York, and Czech Republic. Teacher: Jim Hayward.

In the secondary division [grades 8-12]:
Julian Middle School's 8th graders won 3rd place for the site: Mystical creatures and gods. Partners from: Malaysia and Kenya. Teacher: Janet Barnstable.

These sites and all the winning sites can be viewed by going to http://www.virtualclassroom.org/win09.html

Kate and Miyumi's Holocaust Blog

Check out Ellen's Holocaust Blog at
http://holocaustprojects.blogspot.com

Check out Kate and Miyumi's Holocaust Blog. The fifth grade reading students will be contributing projects to this blog- make sure to check back frequently for updates.

http://katemiyumiholocaustblog.blogspot.com/

We will be working collaboratively with the Ein Ganim School in Petach Tivka, Israel on the Holocaust Project. Check out their website at
http://www.globaldreamers.org/holocaust/index.html






Lincoln's Fifth Grade Holocaust Web Page



Hannah's movie


Sample of Anna's Morph Movie- Anne Frank morphed into Anna K.


The Fifth Graders will be watching the movie Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo and creating projects about the Holocaust. Several students created movie tickets for the show.





Click here to view the movie Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo




Students will also be writing letters to the directors of Safe Haven- Richard and Gary Lester. Check out the film's website at http://blueheronpix.com/safe_haven_the_warsaw_zoo

Hannah's Safe Haven admit one















Hannah's warsaw ghetto vs. warsaw zoo















Holocaust Wordle by Anna

Oak Park District 97 is adopting an orphanage in Haiti

The Lincoln School Fifth Grade Tech Club will be communicating and collaborating on a project featuring video pals and pen pals from Haiti.

A group of Oak Park District 97 teachers led by Karen Tokarz, the Multicultural Education Department and community members led by former District 97 teacher, Gale Liebman, are part of a collaborative effort committed to supporting and rebuilding the Horizon de L'espoir Orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

The orphanage was destroyed in the terrible earthquake earlier this year. Drs. Mildred Olivier and Serge Pierre-Louis, from Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago have been working with Horizon de L’espoir to address the immediate needs of the children and are raising money for temporary housing for the children until the facilities can be rebuilt once the ground is stable.

Our Oak Park Haitian Initiative is enlisting faculty from each of the 10 District 97 schools to help raise funds for these Haitian children over the course of the next two years.

As a kick off to our efforts, there will be station at the 30^th Annual Ethnic Festival sponsored by the Multicultural Education Department on Saturday, May 1^st at Whittier School, where we will be accepting donations of new and gently used toys and clothing; sealed over the counter medication; and school supplies (see the list below).

Helping Haiti is also helping kids!

Newspaper Article in the Oak Leaves

Supply list:

Television and cd player with dvd and cassetttes

Small table and chairs

blackboard and chalk

Coloring book and crayons

Plastic storage boxes

Play dough

Puzzles and games

Paper and scissors for arts and crafts

Story books and informative books

Flash cards

Plastic cups, plates and silverware

Monetary donations will also be accepted. Checks should be made payable to: AMHE Foundation.

Photos

Dr. Serge Pierre-Louis with some of the children

Dr Olivier is the Haitian woman on the right, the director is in the middle, and the nurse is on the left.

Horizon de L'espoir Orphanage

Pencil

In Fifth Grade Tech club we are learning how to use Pencil- a cool flip book animation program. It is like the old fashioned flip books but using the computer. Students are working on creating animations about Spring for the GlobalDreamers website. Click here for directions on how to use Pencil.

Check back soon for our Pencil creations about Spring.

by Ava T.

Hannah's Pencil Movie