Winter Session Week 4

Kindergarten Spanish:
All our talk about snow and snowmen has segued perfectly into body parts (and 5 senses). This week we learned how to say various body parts-head (cabeza),eyes(ojos),ears(orejas),nose(nariz),mouth(boca), stomach(estomago), and hands (manos). We played the ever popular dice game to practice this vocabulary and did a crazy face project where we passed around our papers and drew different body parts on each others' papers. It was fun to draw our snowman body parts on the Promethean board, and our story, The Biggest Best Snowman by Margery Cuyler, fit in perfectly.

B1-2 Technology:
We've started something new during keyboarding time-as the rest of the class does Type to Learn Jr, small groups of students come into the "clubhouse" section of the room to play a letter match game on the body keyboarding mat and do a "home row hop" where they "type" letters with their feet. Next, it was back to our weather theme. After discussing how different animals have different ways of surviving Winter-migration, adaptation, hibernation-students learned how to maniputlate a powerpoint document about animals in winter. They added clipart, slide transitions, and learned how to view the show. It was a little rough, but for the most part they did quite well, considering these are skills that we will continue working on through fourth grade! The last few minutes of class we did a little click and drag practice to see what we could make with 100 snowballs.

3-4 Technology:
Older students are also enjoying the body keyboarding mat in small groups. Our lesson this week practice clipart placement, picture resizing, and formatting in Word as we turned the "Hey Diddle Diddle" rhyme into a rebus story with pictures for key words. The end of class was spent in the Cyber Cafe where we continued our internet safety lessons about email and social networking sites.