Fall Session Week 3

B1-2 Technology:

1. Tux Typing Lesson 3

2. Put together your Pumpkin Math book

Check out the world's largest pumpkin grown by Jim Bryson in Quebec, Canada. It weighs 1,818 pounds!



http://inhabitat.com/nyc/worlds-largest-pumpkin-to-be-carved-at-the-new-york-botanical-garden/

3. Play some pumpkin games!

http://www.onlinepumpkincarving.com/

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/braingames/pumpkins/pumpkins.htm

http://www.physicsgames.net/game/Pumpkin_Remover_3.html

4. Watch a Halloween video at Speakaboos

3-4 Technology:

1. Check in on your blog and see if you have any comments. Respond to questions that people asked if needed.

2. We will talk about Creative Commons and how to insert a picture that you did not take

3. Try the keyboard challenge picture-what did it make?

Fall Session Week 2

B1-2 Technology:

1. Start with Tux Typing lesson 2. Try to keep your fingers on the home row keys.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/46257312@N04/4444061098

2. Let's learn some facts about pumpkins!



Open your folder and find the powerpoint called Pumpkin Math. Complete the activities and save-don't forget to include some pumpkin facts on the last slide and format the text. We will make these into a little book next week.

3-4 Technology:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/31699569@N00/2836828090

It's time to start blogging! We will talk about blogs, learn how to log in, write our first post, insert a picture, and discuss commenting etiquette. Away we go!

Fall Session Week 1

B1-2 Technology:

Welcome Back to Fall Session!

1. It's time to start trying to use some home row fingers. Meet A Silly Dancing Frog. Do Lesson 1 of Tux Typing.

2. Let's learn about Fall with Brainpop Jr.

3. Go to Kerpoof and make a Fall picture. Use the text box to add a sentence about why you like Fall. Save the picture as a jpeg in your folder.

4. Play some Fall games

Nut Hunt

Build a Scarecrow

Spot the Differences

3-4 Technology:

1. Type to Learn keyboarding

2. Let's learn how to write a story with Big Universe! Make sure you save your story. If you finish early, you can read other stories or go to Study Island.

Fort Craig Flash Mob

We surprised our students and parents with a Flash Mob on our last Friday Family Gathering before Fall break. So much fun! Great team building activity as well-I think we look pretty good after only two practices. What do you think?
 

Summer Session Week 10

Time for fun!

Our last class of  the summer session was a fun free day. B-1-2 practiced making pictures, spelling pictures, and spending their "money" on kerpoof. 3-4 students loved challenging each other and unknown students around the world in Arcademic Skill Builder games.  See everyone in October!

Summer Session Week 9

B1-2 Technology:
For a change of pace, this week we played Key Bricks as our keyboarding warm-up. We talked more about monarch life cycle and migration, and explored the monarch winter home in Mexico.  We used kerpoof to make a picture of the life cycle of a monarch. It was the first time our youngers used kerpoof, so logging in was an adventure! Remember, you can have kerpoof fun from home-everyone should have brought home sheets with log in instructions.

3-4 Technology:

Students started class by taking a timed typing test and recording their score. We will take the same test several times throughout the year to see how our speed and accuracy improve. Students finished their Cybersmart powerpoints by adding slide transitions, backgrounds, and custom animation. Finally, the last few minutes were spent playing math skill games with people from all around the country, maybe the world, on the Arcademic Skill Builder site.

Summer Session Week 8

B1-2 Technology:

No keyboarding this week. Instead, we gathered in the "clubhouse" to read Gotta Go! Gotta Go!, a great book about the monarch migration to Mexico. Each fall, monarchs from all over the United States and Canada migrate to the same 12 mountain tops in central Mexico where they roost all winter long in the oyamel fir trees. They find this spot all on their own, never having been there before. It is an incredible story, one that you can learn all about by exploring the fantastic site, Journey North. We used Google earth to check out the monarch sanctuary and to "fly" the 1900 miles there from Maryville, Tn and discussed how monarchs are a shared resource between the countries in North America. The students all made symbolic monarchs which will also spend the winter in Mexico. In the spring, we will get back paper monarchs from students all over the United States and Canada. Thanks to Journey North, everything will be entered on a collaborative map so we will be able to track where our butterflies landed in the spring. Very exciting!

3-4 Technology:

Are you Cyber Smart? Fort Craig students are! After some Dance Mat keyboarding, we started working on a Cyber Smart powerpoint. This week, students added slides for each of our SMART rules: Safe, Manners, Attachments, Reliable, Tell. They wrote text and inserted pictures for each slide. We spent the last 10 minutes of class exploring the social networking features of Kerpoof, including the message boards, emailing pictures, and "favoriting" pictures.