Here is a link to the Moving Up and CapCon 2021 page on the Heathcote Gateway!
Take a look at the special Moving Up movie Ms. Bescherer made with the fifth graders and the fifth graders’ Capstone presentations recorded by Mr. Casal. Mr. Casal has also uploaded the Moving Up movie created by Mrs. Levendos, a fifth-grade parent.
Enjoy!
It’s nearly the last day of school for my fifth-grade students and it’s time to share a link to their Capstone presentations. Every year I’m always so proud of students’ final work because I have witnessed the full arc of their process, beginning with when their Capstone project was just an idea. This year I’m especially proud because these projects were done while students were learning remotely during a pandemic. Not an easy task. But every single student completed a project and… rocked it! Take a look for yourself…
I proudly present this link to CapCon! 2020 – a Capstone Learning Conference YouTube playlist.
Here are links to each student’s blog. Search for “Capstone” to find each their three Capstone blog posts:
Videos of each 5E students’ Capstone TedTalks and Ignites were taped by our computer teacher, Chris Casal. I’ve created a CapCon 2019 – Class 5Edwards playlist on my YouTube channel.
Below are links for 5E students’ 2019 Capstone blog posts documenting the entire arc of their projects:
Here are links to Capstone TedTalks my students presented as part of CapCon 2018:
Class 5E
Links to Capstone Blog Posts
Where I’m From Poetry
George Ella Lyon’s poem, “Where I’m From,” is credited as the inspiration for the many “Where I’m From” poems written by others around the globe. Here is her poem:
I am from clothespins,
from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
I am from the dirt under the back porch.
(Black, glistening,
it tasted like beets.)
I am from the forsythia bush
the Dutch elm
whose long-gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.
I’m from fudge and eyeglasses,
from Imogene and Alafair.
I’m from the know-it-alls
and the pass-it-ons,
from Perk up! and Pipe down!
I’m from He restoreth my soul
with a cottonball lamb
and ten verses I can say myself.
I’m from Artemus and Billie’s Branch,
fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost
to the auger,
the eye my father shut to keep his sight.
Under my bed was a dress box
spilling old pictures,
a sift of lost faces
to drift beneath my dreams.
I am from those moments–
snapped before I budded —
leaf-fall from the family tree.
Firework by Katy Perry
Wake Me Up by Avicii
Let Her Go by Passenger
Nobody Ever Told You by Carrie Underwood
Beautiful by Christina Aguilera
A Change is Gonna Come
https://youtu.be/6ouOIgoEfC4
America by Neil Diamond
Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins
Everyday People by Sly & The Family Stone
https://youtu.be/TrBOfP8lTSM
Farmer Refuted Lin Manuel Miranda
https://youtu.be/T7uuFz6NhFE
For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield
https://youtu.be/8bl-vbBnJ3I
Imagine by John Lennon
Times They Are a Changin by Bob Dylan
https://youtu.be/JxvVk-r9ut8
Turn! Turn! Turn! by The Byrds
War by Edwin Starr
https://youtu.be/5Dl-mZMl-c8
What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye
A Change is Gonna Come
I created a YouTube playlist comprised of 5E students’ final Capstone presentations. Take a look.
Heathcote fifth graders have been blogging since 2014. Students’ blogs began as part of their ePortfolio, which reside in Google sites. Then, in the middle of our present school year, 2015-2016, students began using Edublogs, in anticipation of “going live” and having our blogs accessible to individuals outside of Scarsdale public schools.
Each student’s blog site contains a mix of posts. Some are in response to a direct assignment (e.g., Rube Goldberg; poetry anthology), while others are student-initiated. Students’ latest posts, as of June 2016, center on their fifth grade Capstone projects, which answer their main inquiry question.
Take a look at my students’ blogs and, if you have time, leave comments for a student or two, preferably for “Capstone” or “Rube Goldberg” (all posts will be from 2015-2016).