This week in the Computer Lab

This week Kindergarten will continue with reading in Starfall. They will focus on activities "The Big Hit," "vowels," and ig/ip word endings.  They will also do activities with "Mox's Shop," "sh," and ot/og word endings. Once finished students will be introduced to Brain Pop Jr. and watch a video on phonics and rhyming.


In First Grade students will start off the class practicing keyboarding skills with BBC Dance Mat. They will then also be introduced to Brain Pop Jr. and watch a video on animals and their habitat.


Second, Third and Fourth grade will be doing their Acuity benchmarks this week on Language Arts.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

With this being such a short week we will start out our class as normal, Kindergarten reviewing Starfall and First through Fourth practicing keyboarding skills. When finished we will explore some activities on sites that have to do with Thanksgiving. Here are a few of the sites... Primary Kids, Too Many Turkeys, Turkey Anagram Game, The First Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day Quiz, Thanksgiving Dinner, Quiz Your Noodle: Thanksgiving, Funny Fill-in: Picture Perfect-Turkey Day.

What we are learning this week in Computer Lab...

In Kindergarten we will go to Starfall and do activities under, "Learn to Read." Students will reinforce skills such as left to right, read "Peg the Hen," and focus on the "en," and "et" sounds. They will then do "Reading with Silly Turkey."  When we are finished with this students will go to Riverdeep and do activities with Sammy Science reinforcing skills on sequencing, sorting, seasons, weather and matching.

First Grade will practice the first 15 minutes on keyboarding skills on BBC Dance Mat. Students will then continue working on their slideshow in KidPix that they began the week before.

Second Grade will also practice the first 15 minutes on keyboarding skills on BBC Dance Mat. Students will then review what we have learned up to this point. This will include Internet Safety websites; Microsoft Word; KidPix; Kidspiration; Penny Panda's Sticker Store; That Spelling is Right; Riverdeep and/or CoolMath for kids.

Third and Fourth Grade will begin the first 15 minutes practicing keyboarding skills with Type to Learn. Students will then continue working on their PowerPoint slideshow and presentation from the week before.

This week in the lab...

This week we will be reviewing what we have learned up to this point in class this week.

Kindergarten will review Starfall - Learn to Read (letters, calendar, pumpkins, etc.) We will also review "Peep and the Big Wide Word," Riverdeep - Bailey's Book House and Millie's Math House and KidPix.

First Grade we will review internet safety websites, Microsoft Word, KidPix, Kidspiration, Penny Panda's Sticker Store and Riverdeep activities.

Second Grade will continue with their Acuity testing in Math this week.

Third and Fourth Grade will review internet safety websites, Microsoft Word, KidPix, Kidspiration, That Spelling is Right and Hot Shot Business.

The following week First, Third and Fouth will continue working on their slideshows from last week.

This week in computer lab...

Kindergarten will be discussing fire safety. We have several sites that will be integrated into the lesson. We will visit "Elmo's Fire Safety," "USFA Kids," and "Get Out of the Way!"

First grade will start out with BBC Dance Mat. We will then have discussion on presentations. We will navigate through Kid Pix slideshow and make our own three slide presentation. We will be working on this the next two weeks.

Second grade is taking part in Acuity Testing. This is a benchmark to see how they are doing in Language Arts and Math. Third and Fourth took this several weeks ago so now it's time for Second grade to take part. This will take two weeks as they will do Lang. Arts this week and Math next week.

Third and Fourth grade will start out with Type to Learn. We will then have instruction on using Power Point. Students will be making their own presentation over something they have been learning in class. They too will be working on this the next two weeks.