B1-2 Technology:
Back at school after 3 weeks of Fall Break! For this new session, youngers get to do Keyboard Climber. They had been begging the last few weeks of Summer session to do what the olders had been doing, and now they found it wasn't so easy-that monkey falls if you don't type the letters quickly enough. We talked about frustration and perseverance and the fact that we are just practicing, not trying to be perfect. My olders met in the "clubhouse" for a discussion of Home Row Fingers. They will be starting Dance Mat Typing next week. After keyboarding, everyone went to the computers and used Paint to draw a picture of something that happened over Fall Break. We also used a new tool-the text tool-to write about our break in our pictures. I put the pictures together into a Smilebox presentation which I will post here next week.
3-4 Technology:
Class started with Dance Mat typing and our new computer challenge-comment on the class pet post and suggest a name. Students have a week to comment before we vote. After that, we read a poem by Jack Prelutsky about a mythical creature called a Wumpaloon. Students had to use the details in the poem and add their own to draw a Wumpaloon. Besides practicing moving between documents, mouse control, editing colors, and following written directions in order, this was a great activity to learn some new color words like crimson, teal, lilac, and indigo. After saving their picture, students inserted it into the poem and formatted the words. Here is my Wumpaloon.
The Wumpaloons by Jack Prelutsky
The Wumpaloons, which never were,
had silver scales and purple fur,
their wings were alabaster white,
their manes as black as anthracite,
their legs were pink and indigo,
with toes of bright pistachio,
their noses were a bottle green,
their antlers tan and tangerine.
The Wumpaloons had crimson lips,
their tails were teal, with flaxen tips,
their lilac eyes were flecked with dots,
as gold as summer apricots,
their necks were lemon, striped with blue
their ears were of a ruby hue.
How nice to think they might occur,
the Wumpaloons, which never were.
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