2nd Grade Computers

After viewing a short video about Thanksgiving and recalling so many of our blessings, we practiced our home row keys.
As a special treat, we visited www.akidsheart.com and enjoyed the many fun Thanksgiving activities on this website.

My wish for everyone is that you have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving and we all look forward to being back to school on November 28th.

Warmly,
Cilla Speck

PS-2-Tablets
PS-3-www.sesamestreet.org/Games/Coloring Book/Dress for Fall-Elmo
PK-www.pbskids.org/Games/Nature Games/Vegetable Patterns/Caillou the Gardener/Matching Game
K-www.starfall.com 
1st-www.abcya.com/Holiday/Thanksgiving Word Search
2nd www.akidsheart.com
3rd Google docs/www.abcya.com/3rd grade/Thanksgiving Crosswords
4th CyberHunt-The Wampanoag Way of  Life

Elementary Library

This week in the library...

PS2 - We read Happy Thanksgiving, Don't Eat Too Much Turkey, and Give Thanks to the Lord.

PS3 - We read Clifford's Thanksgiving Visit, Don't Eat Too Much Turkey, and Splat Says Thank You.

PK4 - We read One is a Feast for a Mouse and Splat Says Thank You.

Kindergarten - We read Fluffy's Thanksgiving and watched Alvin's Thanksgiving Celebration.

First Grade - We read watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

Second Grade - We discussed shelf arrangements and learned where and how books are shelved.

Third Grade - We read The Continents, looked at the website www.lizardpoint.com, and watched Let's Talk about Maps and Globes.

Fourth Grade - did not come to library this week.

First Grade Computers

A good time was had by all this week in computer class.  The students brought their tablets and we had fun exploring the app called 'Book Creator'. The children were able to take pictures throughout the room of their classmates or objects in the lab and then put them into their presentations with text.  Believe me, there was a lot of activity in this room, but the children had fun.  After Christmas we will create a storybook over a certain topic and even add pictures from the Internet, and perhaps even record our voices. I want the students to feel confident when exploring new programs or apps, and there were lots of smiles when they left the lab this week.

Have a good weekend.

Cilla Speck
PS-3www.sesamestreet.org/Elmo/ABC Puzzles/Elmo and the Beanstalk
PK www.funbrain.com/Playground
K-coloring-kids.co/www.starfall.com
1st Grade-Book Creator-App
3rd Grade-Google Docs-Open House Flyer
4th Grade-Google Slide Presentations

Elementary Library

This week in the library...

PS2 - We read My Brown Bear, Barney and watched the video Nursery Rhymes.

PS3 - We read My Brown Bear, Barney and watched the video The Berenstain Bears Big Bear, Small Bear.

PK4 - W read Bear Feels Scared and Feeling Scared.  We then did a pattern activity using M & M's.  We got to eat them afterwards!!

Kindergarten - We read Fluffy's Thanksgiving and watched Alvin's Thanksgiving Celebration.

First Grade - We read Turkey Bowl, A Turkey for Thanksgiving, and Scooby-Doo and the Thanksgiving Mystery.

Second Grade - did not come to library this week.

Third Grade - We read Turkey Bowl and The Berenstain Bears' Thanksgiving.

Fourth Grade - did not come to library this week.

Elementary Library

This week in the library...

PS2 - We read Mama Cat has Three Kittens, Big Fat Hen, and Go Away Big Green Monster.  We watched the video Chicka Chicka 123.

PS3 - We read Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear, What is Orange?, and watched the video The Berenstain Bears Say Please and Thank You.

PK4 - We read Today is Monday, Flora's Surprise, and Healthy Snacks.

Kindergarten - We introduced the book terms spine, cover, and title page.  We used our own spine for the spine, our skin for the cover, and our faces for the title page.  We then did the Hokey Pokey the regular way, then did the Hokey Pokey using our new book terms.

First Grade - We read There's No Place Like Space and Kitten's First Full Moon.  We then colored our own picture of an outer space object and wrote what the object was and what Kitten might think it was.

Second Grade - We did the Digital Citizenship lesson Follow the Digital Trail.

Third Grade - We did the Digital Citizenship lesson Private and Personal Information.

Fourth Grade - We did the Digital Citizenship lesson Digital Citizenship Pledge.

Third Grade Computers

In case you have not heard, we are having a presidential election next Tuesday, November 8th.  Our children have seen news coverage about these candidates and have  heard adults share thoughts and opinions.  Without giving any personal opinions about the political race, we shared 2 videos from www.scholastic.com explaining presidential procedures involving the voting process.  We all agreed that 'voting' is a special privilege  and one that every American of voting age should take advantage of this privilege.

Next we pretended that we were running for president and had to appoint 3 cabinet members and these members had to make sure the budget was balanced.  It was fun to see the selections of the students and working with percentages, they were actually able to balance their budgets.  The print out of this activity named them as President.....that was fun.

God Bless America and the Election of our country!!
Have a wonderful weekend.

C Speck
PS-2 Tablets
PS-3 www.nickjr.com/Free Draw/Free Stickers
PK-4www.nickjr.com/ Halloween/Halloween Party/Coloring
K-www.starfall.com
1st Google Drawing
2nd www.ducksters.com/Colonial Americans/Pocahontas
3rd www. scholastic.com/election
4th Google Slides