Disc Golf
4/30/2018
All you need to play disc golf is a few new or used discs and a place to play. Luckily, you can easily get discs at many places around town (REI, Play It Again Sports, Hoarding Marmot, etc) and there are many courses to play (Hanshew, Hilltop, Kinkaid, Westchester, Russian Jack, Peters Creek, etc). The kids seemed to thrive during our quick disc golf tutorial and I can certainly understand why. Usually disc golf doesn't get the heart pumping like some of the other sports and activities that we do in physical education class, but it has some other great benefits. The kids really enjoyed being outside and the social aspect of disc golf is unparalleled. The chatting, laughing and cheering for each other could be heard across the parking lot while groups navigated the 3 hole course that they orchestrated for themselves. Check out these links below for courses, tournaments, and a plethora of great disc golf information for the beginner to expert.
List of Disc Golf Courses in Alaska: www.discgolfscene.com/courses/Alaska Alaska Disc Golf Association: www.discgolfscene.com/clubs/Alaska_Disc_Golf_Association Music
4/20/2018
6th Grade YOUTUBE Children's Stories PBL
Every year the 6th grade works on being more expressive and engaging in how they speak by reading children's books. This is all to prepare them for those big future roles in the PNA Musicals!
Usually, they just read them to the younger students at the school. But, the vein of Project Based Learning, I wanted the project to have an impact on people in the community and possibly further! So 6th Grade is currently creating videos of some fun children's stories where THEY are the narrator! Here is our introductory event:
Then we watched a video about St. Jude's Hospital. 6th Grade is hoping to bring a little entertainment and escape to kids who may not be able to get out and play like other kids and who just may need some cheering up.
We are hoping to load the videos to YouTube May 21st!!! But right now, it is a work in progress!
Betty is hoping to take a child on a virtual tour of PARIS!
Hayden has chosen the adorable tale of Hugless Douglas!
Clarie chose The Book With No Pictures...and how do you make a book with no pictures into a video? Take look!
When reading their stories, students have been working on finding descriptive words that can be more acted out and verbal actions. Verbal actions are how actors put meaning and want behind the lines they say.
Meanwhile in 7th and 8th grade...
Games! Games! Games! Improv Games that is!
Hold that pose Keno! Maggie is amazed!
And just like that, Keno and Anna are pirates sailing the high seas!
AND...it was Zach's birthday! Improv with the birthday boy!!!
Las Presentaciones
4/9/2018
Confidence!The importance of character skills such as creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and confidence are of paramount importance in modern education. The fact is that the world is changing rapidly, and the world that today's kids will be emerging into as adults cannot be fully imagined or predicted. With this in mind, the best schools are using visionary guidance to prepare students broadly with a foundation of character skills that will undoubtedly be an inexorable part of a successful launch into the mid-21st century world of work. The globalization movement happening over the past decades has made 2nd and even 3rd and 4th language skills more important than ever. Having not only communication skills, but also cultural awareness and confidence can be an immensely valuable tool for any professional. Students at PNA from 3 years old through the 8th grade are getting language and cultural instruction through the school's Spanish program, which in truth might be better titled as "Global Citizenship, Spanish Language, Cultural Competency, and YOU" allows kids to be kids, creating wild, hilarious, and otherwise original stories, and re-telling them to a crowd of their peers in Spanish. These opportunities to mix public speaking, collaboration, and creativity are myriad at PNA and reach across subject areas to provide students with a uniquely powerful learning experience each and every day. Here we see 4th and 5th graders working together to re-tell stories about a trip through space to planets near and far, this coming on the end of a multi-week unit involving reading, writing, group storytelling, creative drawing, public speaking, listening for understanding, pronunciation, and more. Each day at PNA is another day that students make valuable gains that will provide the basis for their successful future. |
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