Elementary Library

This week was Guidance week, so all classes went to Mrs. Coleman.

4th Grade Computers

The fourth graders come into the lab each week knowing exactly what is expected of them..their class meets twice on Wednesday. At 10:30-11:00 the students come to the lab and only keyboarding is emphasized.  Keyboarding is such an important life skill, so this extra practice is time well spent. 
After lunch the students return to the lab and continue working on their Google slide presentations.  Again...these students will be making presentations throughout their educational life and probably their professional life as well.  This is time well spent understanding the basics of making these presentations.  They are so creative and will be giving their presentations to their peers this next week.

A great class!!  Thank you Ms. Clevenger!!

Have a great weekend.

Mrs. Speck
PS-2-Tablets
PS-3 www.belmikri.com/Coloring/Memory Match
PS-4 www.abcya.com/Pre-K/Skills/Same & Different/ Shape Construction
K-Google Docs/ www.starfall.com
2nd Grade-Google Drawing
3rd Grade-Google Drawing
4th Grade-Google Slides

Elementary Library

This week in the library...

PS2 - We read Turtle and Snake Spooky Halloween and Go Away Big Green Monster.  We watched the video Barney's Halloween Party.

PS3 - We read Froggy's Halloween, Trick or Treat Little Critter, and Five Little Monkey's go Trick or Treating.  We watched the video Barney's Halloween Party.

PK4 - We read Halloween Day and Dragon's Halloween.

Kindergarten - We read There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat, From Seed to Pumpkin, and Pumpkin Countdown.  We then did an activity with pumpkin seeds which we got to eat afterwards.

First Grade - We finished reading Junie B. Jones, First Grader, Boo! and I Mean It!

Second Grade - We read Horrible Harry at Halloween.

Third Grade - did not come to library.

Fourth Grade - We did the Digital Citizenship lesson The Key to Keywords.

3rd Grade Computers

Third graders are always ready for new activities.  Learning how to get information from the Internet is so important. The past few weeks we have had 2 assignments to research.  Third graders are always given the exact website to search.  Johnny Appleseed has been taught since Kindergarten, so the students actually know the story; however, the third graders were given questions to answer from a website. This type of research encourages their confidence.

 Recycling is always a subject that is relevant to all of us.  The students were given a certain website to explore and were to find several ways to help our environment.  Open discussion followed. 

Fall is such a beautiful time of the year, and this past week the students were told to search for 5 different fall leaves, insert their image and resize, and label.  Finished products are in the hall. This is a great class!!

Have a nice weekend.
Mrs. Speck

PS-3 www.turtlediary.com/Pattern Match/I Spy Numbers
PK-www.sproutonline.com/Dress-Up/ Bernstein Bears
K-Google Drawing
1st -Google Docs
2nd Google Drawing
3rd-Google Drawing
4th-Google Slides

Elementary Library

This week in the library...

PS2 - We watched videos from Sparkyschoolhouse.org about fire safety. 

PS3 - We watched videos from Sparkyschoolhouse.org about fire safety.

PK4 - We watched videos from Sparkyschoolhouse.org about fire safety.  We read Arthur's Fire Drill and Fire Fighters.

Kindergarten - We read Fluffy and the Fire Fighters and watched videos from Sparkyschoolhouse.org about fire safety.

First Grade - We began reading Junie B., First Grader, Boo and I Mean It.

Second Grade - We did the Digital Citizenship lesson My Creative Work.

Third Grade - We read The Halloween Party for the Black Lagoon.

Fourth Grade - We looked at some banned book and discussed why they were banned from some libraries.  We also wrote a persuasive paragraph discussing our view of one of the banned books.