Goodnight First Grade

Students in first grade just listened to the story Goodnight Moon in computer class. They each created a PowerPoint slide saying goodnight to something in their room at home. The slides were then put together to make a complete presentation. Click here to see the shows.

Helping Each Other

This week in computer class Kindergarten students are experimenting with the amazing paint brush tools in Kid Pix. One big part of the lesson is asking for help and helping others. Students show each other where to find different tools.

Sharing Shortcuts

The easiest way to have your students access a web site is a shortcut in the Shared folder. This video shows how to create and rename a shortcut.

Mad About the Parts of Speech

This week third grade students are practicing the parts of speech, including singular and plural nouns, adjectives, present and past tense verbs, and adverbs. They are using a "Mad Libs" type web page called Wacky Web Tales. Students fill in the blanks and the web shows them their story.

The 50 States

After six weeks of work, the fourth grade web page project for this year is up! Each student researched, wrote, illustrated, typed, and formatted a web page about one of our states. Click here to go to the main page and then click on the links to see the different pages. I am really proud of the kids, especially how hard they all worked!

Book Apps

I love to read books, but my purse is not big enough to take them everywhere. It wouldn't even hold an ereader if I happened to own one. I do have an iPhone, though. With the free Kindle and iBooks apps I can take books with me everywhere. I don't read new books on it. I like the feel of books and being able to look at my bookmark and see what fraction of the book I have read. I do like to reread the free classics on my iPhone. I have now read books by Alcott, Austin, Burnett, and Dickens while waiting at the doctor's office, drive thru, and hair salon.

Teach Your Parents

Thursday is Teach Your Parents Computers night for first and second grades. Students can bring in their parents or other adults to teach them how to do different things on the computer. First grade students will be teaching their guests how to type on the home row. Second grade students will be helping their guests make a slide show in Microsoft PowerPoint. The lab will be open from 5:30 to 7:00 pm for people to stop by.