Week of November 29: 1st and 2nd Grade

This week you will practice your typing skills and then use Word for the first time this year.  Your goal is to type a simple wish list for the holiday season.  Good luck!

Dance Mat Typing

Week of November 22: 3rd & 4th Grade

Happy Thanksgiving week!  Today you will continue to work on your keyboarding skills using Dance Mat Typing.  Following, you will challenge yourself and each other, using your math facts, at Arcademic.
Good luck and have fun!

Dance Mat Typing 


Arcademic Skill Builders

Week of November 15: Kindergarten

Please go to Starfall.com and follow Mrs. Singleton's directions. Have fun!

STARFALL.COM

Week of November 1: 1st and 2nd Graders

This week you will work on your keyboarding skills at Dance Mat Typing.  Next, you will work on your mouse skills by painting a virtual picture for me at Art Pad.com if time allows.




Dance Mat Typing

Art Pad

Week of October 25: 1st and 2nd grade

This week you will work on your math and computer skills at the same time.  Please listen to my directions and then click on the link below to get started.


BBC Math Practice

Week of October 11: 3rd & 4th Grade

This week you will continue your Dance Mat Typing Journey to mastery. Later, continue researching your chosen US President.

Dance Mat Typing



Student Friendly Search Engine

Week of September 28: 3rd Graders

This week you will review the many elements of the water cycle.  Below you will test you knowledge through this fun interactive activity.  Have fun!





Droplet and the Water Cycle

Week of September 20th: 3rd and 4th Grade

This week you have an opportunity to explore the National Geographic Kids web page.  This site has an abundance of opportunities to explore the world and support learning in all of the major content areas.  Please start exploring this web page by going on a Critter Cam Antarctic Adventure.

Antarctic Adventure

Week of September 13th: 3rd and 4th Grade

This week you will familiarize yourself with your computer.  To do so, you will complete your KidPix picture and begin your year-long Dance Mat Typing adventure.

Dance Mat Typing

Week of May 9: 1st and 2nd grade

Let's see if you can 'SPRING' into action and make it to the next stage of Dance Mat Typing!  All of you have made amazing progress with your typing skills this year.  Today, work hard to pass the stage you are currently on.  If you do well, you can go to Kid Pix during the last 10 minutes of class.

Dance Mat Typing

Week of April 26: 1st and 2nd Grade

This week you will continue practicing and improving your typing skills.  Using Dance Mat Typing, please select the level and stage that you were last on.  15 minutes before the end of class, you will go to Cool Math For Kids to practice some of your math facts.  Have Fun!


Dance Mat Typing

Cool Math for Kids

Week of April 12: 3rd and 4th Grade

This week you will continue planning and drafting you fairy tale.  With your plan in hand, your team needs to draft your story in a Word document.   After completing your first draft, please revise and edit your story so that it sounds like you want it to and includes fairy tale elements, a beginning, middle, and end, story problem, and  a solution.  Have fun!

Week of April 5: 3rd and 4th Grade

I hope you had a great spring break!  This week you will continue to read your selected fairy tales and then begin drafting your own.  By next week, I hope to start typing and inserting pictures into your story.

Week of April 5: 1st and 2nd Grade

Welcome back!  I hope you had a great spring break!  Today we will refresh our typing skills and, using Kid Pix, illustrate what you did over spring break.

Week of March 15: 1st and 2nd Grade

This week we will learn a new way to experience technology and also classroom behavior using our whole brain!  Also, in the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, you will go to Funschool and complete some interactive activities.

FUNSCHOOL

Week of February 22: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, &4th Grades

This week we are going to work hard on our typing skills.  Your goal today is to complete at least one stage of Dance Mat Typing.  3rd and 4th graders need to try to complete two stages or even an entire level.  Good luck and happy typing!

Dance Mat Typing

Week of February 1: 3rd and 4th Grade

In the final week of the writing process, students will work to insert pictures into their documents and then publish their reports.  Students who complete their reports early will strive to advance to the next typing level.  During the last ten minutes of class, students will enjoy exploration time using links from this blog.

Week of January 25 : 3rd and 4th Grade

As you enter the third week of your research project, you will focus on drafting, revising, and editing your work.  Please make sure that you have followed the accordion paragraph format and that you have formatted your Word document correctly.  Those who are done with the writing process may look for pictures to insert into their document.  Keep up the good work!

Week of January 4: 3rd and 4th Grade

Happy New Year!  I am excited to be back and hope you are ready to continue with our technology adventure.  As we progress through the year, it is important to combine the many skills you have learned.  Therefore, your job, over the next couple of weeks, is to create a report on your current science topic.  You will use the Internet to locate information, and digital tools to create your exciting report.  Please listen to the directions carefully so that you do not fall behind in this assignment!  Let's get started!

Fact Monster

Student Friendly Search Engine

Kids Click