Monday, December 6, 2021

Happy Winter and Happy Holidays!

 Kindergarten:  

  1.  Enjoy holiday activities
  2.  Continue to learn about Starfall 
  3. Begin learning about coding using the app, Kodable. 


















1st Grade:
1. Continue to learn about coding using Kodable
2. Continue to practice typing skill using Typing Club.
3.  Make a Holiday card or thank you card using Kid Pix.
4. Learn about the app, Garageband to create a musical piece
5.  Learn how to create a graphic word art






2nd Grade:
  1. Continue to learn about coding using Kodable and code.org
  2. Continue to practice typing skill using Typing Club
  3. Create a creating holiday/greeting card using the following links 
  4. Survey and Graph using  the iMac app, Numbers
Try these activities from Code.org



3rd Grade: 
  1. Continue to learn about coding using Kodable and code.org
  2. Continue to practice typing skill using Typing Club
  3. Create a holiday/greeting card using the links below, and email the card
  4. Survey and Graphs use Google Sheets 
4th Grade:
  1. Begin leaning and creating using Scratch 
  1. Continue to use Kodable and explore code.org
  2. Continue practice using Typing Club 
  3. Create and email a greeting card
5th Grade:
1. Use Scratch to create a project
2. Continue to use Kodable and code.org
3.  Create a Holiday Pixel Art using Sheets
4. Email a Holiday Greeting Card 





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Monday, October 25, 2021

 Happy Fall! 

Kindergarten: 

 






1st and 2nd Grade:

1.  Begin Exploring Kid Pix and learning the tools associated with the application
2.  Begin making a book using Kid Pix (to print and enjoy)
3.  Continue to practice typing skills using Typing Club
4.  Start learning about Kodable (a coding/programming site for kids)

2nd Grade:
1.  Continue Typing Skills using Typing Club
2.  Continue using and learning Pages, a word processing document app
3.  Explore and create using Kid Pix
4. Use Keynote (an apple application) to create a slideshow/book. 

3rd Grade/4th Grade:
1.  Continue to learn and explore the different Google apps:  Google Slides and Google Drawing (Fall theme) 
2.  Begin using Kodable
3. Continue practice Typing Skills using Typing Club 
4. Begin using Kodable
5. Create music and playlists using Garageband.

5th Grade:
1.  Start Google Sheets Unit (learn about spreadsheets, formulas, graphs, and other tools associated with google sheets)
2.  Use Comic Life to create a comic 
3.  Practice Typing Skills 
4. Create music and playlists using Garageband.
5. Begin using Kodable 

Other Links to Explore:











Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Welcome Back!

 Welcome Back to School! (2021-2022)

All grade levels will learn/review about:

1.  Discuss Computer Lab behavior and expectations.
2.  Practice basic skills and expectations.
3.  Begin learning about technology vocabulary. 
     Words of the week: Web Browser, internet, bookmark, keyboard, mouse, monitor
4.  Learn/review web browsers and applications we will use.
5.  Get to know each other and the computer lab.
6.  Discuss Digital Citizenship and Internet safety.


Kindergarten and K1 Links: 
Get to know the computer lab, mouse, and computer. Start learning to navigate the internet by exploring some of activities below.




                                                                           











1st Grade/2nd Grade: 
1.  Discuss Digital Citizenship/internet safety, complete citizenship activities as a class, and computer activities.
2.  Discuss Technology Vocabulary
2.  Create a folder on your computer to save your documents
3.  Practice Typing (discuss home row)  Learn about Dance Mat Typing and Typing Club.
4. Revisit Kid Pix and start Creating a Poster using an application called, PAGES 
                                  






3rd Grade: 
1. Discuss Digital Citizenship/Review Vocabulary
2. Complete digital citizenship activities 
3. Discuss Google account
4.  Practice logging into your google account
5.  Begin creating your own user account on your computer. 
5.  Begin learning about your google account and the some of the different apps associated with it

4th/5th Grade: 
1. Discuss Digital Citizenship and review Technology vocabulary.
2.  Complete digital citizenship activities.  
3.  Begin creating your own user account on your computer. 
4.  Sign into Google account and begin using and learning and reviewing the different apps associated with it!

OTHER LINKS: