Sunday, May 23, 2010
Spring Session Week 8
Things are winding down! Kindergarten had pinata parties, B1-2 made cool magazine covers with their picture on the front for "Tech Student of the Year" and 3-4 added music and titles to their Fort Craig movie. I hope parents got a chance to check out all our hard work during Portfolio Night! It has been a great year-I'm planning new projects for after Summer Break. Hope everyone has a good one!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Spring Session Week 7
Kindergarten Spanish:
Our last week of the session before our pinata party next week! We read Paco and the Giant Chile Plant by Keith Polette and rotated through 4 different centers: hi ho cherryo, farm and transportation play, playdoh fruits and vegetables, and fruit salad minibook creation. I've really enjoyed these little guys this year and look forward to seeing them next year in technology class.
B1-2 Technology:
My first attempt with a Google Earth Lit Trip went well! We watched Make Way For Ducklings and then tracked the journey of the ducklings through Boston using google earth. It was interesting to compare the street views of today's Boston with the illustrations in the 1940's story. Afterwards, we used Kerpoof to make pond pictures that also included a key point learned this session about ponds.
3-4 Technology:
As a year end project, 3-4 students are making a movie called "Fort Craig Fun" using Windows MovieMaker, a free program you can easily download if it is not already installed on your computer. This week, the students imported their pictures from the yearbook folders and added video transitions. They also made their own original music to use in their movie at the website MyBytes Students created a username and password so this site can also be used from home-enjoy the music!
Our last week of the session before our pinata party next week! We read Paco and the Giant Chile Plant by Keith Polette and rotated through 4 different centers: hi ho cherryo, farm and transportation play, playdoh fruits and vegetables, and fruit salad minibook creation. I've really enjoyed these little guys this year and look forward to seeing them next year in technology class.
B1-2 Technology:
My first attempt with a Google Earth Lit Trip went well! We watched Make Way For Ducklings and then tracked the journey of the ducklings through Boston using google earth. It was interesting to compare the street views of today's Boston with the illustrations in the 1940's story. Afterwards, we used Kerpoof to make pond pictures that also included a key point learned this session about ponds.
3-4 Technology:
As a year end project, 3-4 students are making a movie called "Fort Craig Fun" using Windows MovieMaker, a free program you can easily download if it is not already installed on your computer. This week, the students imported their pictures from the yearbook folders and added video transitions. They also made their own original music to use in their movie at the website MyBytes Students created a username and password so this site can also be used from home-enjoy the music!
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Spring Session Week 6
Kindergarten Spanish:
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! It was time to paint the maracas this week-I hope they made it home in one piece. They turned out great, though I am glad to be done with "art" projects for this session!
B1-2 Technology:
Dance Mat keyboarding to start-some of the students have already made it to level 2! We reviewed our powerpoint skills this week by making a powerpoint of pond life, complete with clip art, formatted text, and slide transitions.
3-4 Technology:
We started class this week with a one minute typing test before moving on to some keyboarding games. The students had fun using powerpoint to make business cards for their market day-we formatted the slide design for a "professional" looking card, then copy and pasted it to get 6 cards which I printed on cardstock.
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! It was time to paint the maracas this week-I hope they made it home in one piece. They turned out great, though I am glad to be done with "art" projects for this session!
B1-2 Technology:
Dance Mat keyboarding to start-some of the students have already made it to level 2! We reviewed our powerpoint skills this week by making a powerpoint of pond life, complete with clip art, formatted text, and slide transitions.
3-4 Technology:
We started class this week with a one minute typing test before moving on to some keyboarding games. The students had fun using powerpoint to make business cards for their market day-we formatted the slide design for a "professional" looking card, then copy and pasted it to get 6 cards which I printed on cardstock.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Spring Session Week 5
Kindergarten Spanish:
For our 5th week of the session, and in preparation for next week's Cinco de Mayo, kindergarten made paper mache maracas. Gracias to all our parent helpers!! I would love to be able to post some pictures, but there was no time (and to much ooey gooey) to take them-hopefully I'll get some next week when we paint. In the meantime, they need to dry and be stuffed with semillas before I can attach the stick handle.
B1-2 technology:
The children took a walking field trip to the greenbelt this week, and we discussed the things they would see (and saw) in a pond. We put the ideas into a word document, learned how to copy and paste text (a challenge-left click highlight, right click copy, right click paste-yikes!) and made a "word cloud" with the great site Wordle. The kids had a great time customizing their word cloud and we printed the results to hang in the classrooms.
3-4 technology:
In preparation for Market Day, this week was all about money. We learned about supply and demand with lemonaid stand and saved money with Ed's Bank. The real fun, though, was doing some online shopping with a spreadsheet and $1000 pretend money-there were a few students who didn't quite grasp that "pretend" aspect and wondered when their goodies would be shipped!
For our 5th week of the session, and in preparation for next week's Cinco de Mayo, kindergarten made paper mache maracas. Gracias to all our parent helpers!! I would love to be able to post some pictures, but there was no time (and to much ooey gooey) to take them-hopefully I'll get some next week when we paint. In the meantime, they need to dry and be stuffed with semillas before I can attach the stick handle.
B1-2 technology:
The children took a walking field trip to the greenbelt this week, and we discussed the things they would see (and saw) in a pond. We put the ideas into a word document, learned how to copy and paste text (a challenge-left click highlight, right click copy, right click paste-yikes!) and made a "word cloud" with the great site Wordle. The kids had a great time customizing their word cloud and we printed the results to hang in the classrooms.
3-4 technology:
In preparation for Market Day, this week was all about money. We learned about supply and demand with lemonaid stand and saved money with Ed's Bank. The real fun, though, was doing some online shopping with a spreadsheet and $1000 pretend money-there were a few students who didn't quite grasp that "pretend" aspect and wondered when their goodies would be shipped!
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