Pre-Kindergarten Computers

Mrs. Tidwell's pre-kindergarten class is the first class in the lab on Monday morning.  After praise chapel, the children can be heard singing a praise song coming down the hall and into the computer lab.  The children know the procedures which promotes an orderly transition from one activity to another. Mrs. William's class is first period on Friday..and they also come into the classroom very orderly.

Cinderella was the You-tube this week...from their 4 year old curriculum.  The children know this story, but it is always fun to see a short video taken from their curriculum...I love watching them watch the video.

The letter the class focused on this week was 'R'.  Turtle diary gives us a quick review of words and pictures that begin with that sound. Our next assignment is to color that letter from Internet4classrooms.com and print...

Learning to eat healthy can be practiced very early.  We had fun with 'Eating Healthy' from the website fisher-price.  I was impressed that the children knew so many of the vegetables mentioned.  We also had fun with an activity that let us play songs on the computer piano.... these children are making such progress with their skills and confidence.

Have a great weekend.

C Speck

PS-2 Tablets
PS-3 www.fisher-price
         Little People-Animal Explorer
         Little People-Memory Match
PK- www.fisher-price.com
        Healthy Food Hunt
        Let's Play Piano
Kindergarten
   Gee-www,kodable.com
    Woody-www.starfall.com
1st Grade
  www,abcya.com/1st Grade/Numbers/Marble Math
2nd Grade
   www. topmarks.co.uk
3rd Grade www.greatblackheroes.com
4th Grade www,freetypinggame.net
                  Google Docs

Elementary Library

This week in the library...

PS2 - We read Blue Chicken.  We watched Brown Bear and From Head to Toe on You Tube.

PS3 - We read Blue Chicken, Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum, and watched the video Bear Snores On.

PK4 - We read Fast Food, Ride, Fly Guy, Ride, and watched Transportation for Kids on You Tube.

Kindergarten - We did the Digital Citizenship lesson Keeping it Private.

First Grade - We did the Digital Citizenship lesson Keeping it Private.

Second Grade - did not come to library.

Third Grade - We began learning how to use our library catalog system.

Fourth Grade - We began reading Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days.

Elementary Library

This week in the library...

PS2 - We read Pete's Big Lunch and A Pet for Pete.  We then watched a video from Auto B. Good.

PS3 - We watched Five Little Monkeys, Little Quack, and There's a Nightmare in the Attic.

PK4 - We watched Five Little Monkeys, Little Quack, and There's a Nightmare in the Attic.

Kindergarten - We read Thomas' Snowsuit and watched the video.  We then drew a picture of ourselves in a snowsuit we would like to wear.

First Grade - We read The Emperor's Egg and did a before and after activity sheet to see how much we knew about penguins.

Second Grade - did not come to library.

Third Grade - We did the Digital Citizenship lesson Power of Words.

Fourth Grade - did not come to library.

First Grade Computer Class

   With Christmas break and then a snow day last week, our students are excited  to be back in school.  Class always begins with a short video from www.brainpopjr.com.  This week the video was about 'Winter'--very appropriate..
    After a short time is spent on keyboarding, the students were directed to www.code.org.  Immediately the students were engaged in problem solving and helping each other.  There are many sites that encourage programming; however, we will continue to progress through this site when the students are coding in the lab. Hearing their 'cheering' when a puzzle was completed brought a smile to my face. I inform the students that some of them will be programmers some day and they actually got their start in First Grade computer class.😊

Have a great weekend.

C Speck

PS-2-Jack be Nimble
      Tablets
PS-3
      www.Internet4classrooms.com
         Mouse Skills
         #9 & #10
PK-www.funbrain.com
        Treehouse Builder
        Balloon Blow-Up
K-www.starfall.com
1st Grade-www,code.org/Course 1
2nd Grade-www,code.org/Course 2
3rd Grade-www.code.org/Course 2
4th Grade-www.code.org/Course 2

Elementary Library

1/13/17

This week in the library...

PS2 - We read A Ball for Daisy, Train Man, and Bear Sees Colors.

PS3 - We read Don't Wake Up Mama, Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake, and Five Little Monkeys Jumped on the Bed.  We then pretended we were monkeys, sang the song, and "jumped" on the bed.

PK4 - We read Don't Wake Up Mama, Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake, and Five Little Monkeys Jumped on the Bed.  We then watched the video Arctic Antics.

Kindergarten -  We read Charlie's Snow Day and Snowmen at Night.  We then drew a picture of what we would do if we stayed up all night.

First Grade - We read Three Snow Bears and watched the video Stranger in the Woods.

Second Grade - We did the STAR Assessment.

Third Grade - We learned about Biography and Autobiography and where those books are located in the library.

Fourth Grade - We did the STAR Assessment.

Elementary Library

This week in the library...

PS2 - Did not come to library.

PS3 - We watched the video Peppa's Christmas.

PK4 - We watched the video Peppa's Christmas and read Froggy's Best Christmas and Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear.

Kindergarten - We read Santa's Big Sneeze and colored a picture of Santa with a cold.

First Grade - We read Crispin, the Pig Who Had It All, Peter Clause and the Naughty List, and Click, Clack , Ho Ho Ho!

Second Grade - We read Jingle Bells, Homework Smells, Rotten Ralph's Rotten Christmas, and Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?

Third Grade - Did not come to library.

Fourth Grade - We watched the McGee and Me video Twas the Fight Before Christmas.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!