Hello Fremont!  I am not here today, so here are the things you can do while I am gone.

1st Grade

First, you will all watch the story “Arthur’s Computer Disaster” together.

http://www.speakaboos.com/story/arthurs-computer-disaster/

In this story, Arthur causes a big problem that could have been avoided.  Can you think of ways he could have kept the problem from happening?  Discuss them with the teacher.  Then use Kid Pix to draw a picture of Arthur doing the right thing.  When you are finished, print your story.  Now you may choose to spend the rest of your time either coloring your pictures or listening to more stories and playing games at http://www.speakaboos.com/

2nd Grade

With help from the teacher, you will spend your time on the carpet looking at all the computer parts in this very, very messy room.   Then you will go to your assigned seats and search the room for all 12 hidden parts.  Click here when you are finished to choose another game about computers. You may also go to the typing links on the Fremont page and choose a typing game if you want to.

Research and File Management

This week we will “access prior knowledge to pose questions for investigation of an authentic problem” (3-5.3.a) and learn how to save work as files on our computer.  By the end of the week, students will be able to do two things: Create research questions to help them solve everyday problems and save files and put them into appropriate folders.  Here’s how…

Grades 3-5

We will look at a SMART Board activity on creating helpful research questions.   Then we will look at the different ways to find answers to those question using computer resources.  Before we do that, let’s create some folders.

Creating Files and Folders

Here’s how to find your class folder:

1. Open  “Lab Share”
2. Open “Student Work – SAVE HERE”
3. Open your class and teacher’s folder (eg. “1 Davis” means Ms. Davis’ 1^st Grade Class).

Follow these steps to create a new folder:

1. Right click on the number of your folder.
2. Left click the word “rename”.
3. Type your first and last name with correct capitalization.
4. Press enter.

Follow these steps to create a sub folder:

1. Open the folder with your name.
2. Follow the same steps from above to create a new folder.
3. Title this folder “Research”.

2nd Grade

1st Grade

Kindergarten

We’ve spend so much time in the upper grades working on our Technology Ethics presentations that they are coming along very well.  So far they look great, have excellent content, and show that Fremont Students are good decision makers when it comes to being safe online.  Awesome work!

This week the younger grades are focusing on typing, spelling, and math skills with interactive activities.  3rd and 4th are presenting their PowerPoints (which, again, are fantastic), and 5th grade is going to do some research into Thanksgiving.  Here are the plans for each grade:

(EDIT: I have a sub today, so do a great job!)

5th Grade

You’ll be doing a mini-webquest in groups to discover things about Thanksgiving that you probably didn’t already know.
Some Facts- http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/

More Facts- http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/history/first-thanksgiving/,

And games- http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/thanksgiving/games.htm.

4th Grade

Finish and present PowerPoints, typing or math when you are finished.

3rd Grade

Finish and present PowerPoints, typing or math when you are finished.

2nd Grade

EM Games, then Thanksgiving Research at http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/history/first-thanksgiving/, then games at http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/thanksgiving/games.htm.

1st Grade

StarFall book and games about the short vowel sound for the letter “O”, then KidPix pictures to show what you know about “O”.  When you are done, go back to StarFall for Thanksgiving games.

Kindergarten

EM Games

Bullying Prevention Awareness Month

…was  a huge success.  The PowerPoints in 3rd and 4th Grade look great and contain good, well-researched information about how to avoid being a cyberbully or becoming a victim of one.  The 5th grade posters can be seen in the halls of Fremont for the next few weeks until we are ready to present the school with some more information about our next topic, the Environment.   Here’s what we are doing in the C-Lab this week:

5th Grade

Students will learn proper file management skills by using the SMART Board to learn about naming files and organizing information.

4th Grade

Students will complete their PowerPoints and practice presenting with their groups.  Here is the post that has more details.

3rd Grade

Students will complete their PowerPoints and practice presenting with their groups.  Here is the post that has more details.

2nd Grade

Students will practice technology concepts by navigating their browsers to EMGames.com for multiplication practice.

1st Grade

Students will demonstrate understanding of the short e and i sounds by watching videos at Starfall.com then using KidPix to illustrate stories featuring words with those letter sounds.  Students will save pictures with appropriate file names into their KidPix folders.

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Students will practice technology concepts by navigating their browsers to EMGames.com for multiplication practice.

Technology Ethics

We have had some very good talks about technology ethics in all the classes, and this week we are going to show what we know by creating some presentations and printables to share with the school.  Don’t forget the most important thing to remember when you come to an ethical crossroads is the Golden Rule: “Treat others how you want to be treated.”  Here’s what we’re doing:

5th Grade

Using Microsoft Publisher, students will create Cyber Bullying Awareness posters that will raise awareness to the problems of bullies cause and how to avoid facing them.  Each page will contain:

1. A headline, slogan, or quote about bullying in WordArt.
2. Facts about bullying to support the headline.
3. Appropriate clip art or drawings.
4. An attention grabbing border.

When they are finished, we will send them to the color printer then hang them in the school’s halls.

4th Grade

Using MS PowerPoint, students will prepare a 3 minute, 11-slide presentation about 10 Technology Ethics Tips and Hints that includes the following:

1. A title page with your name and the title in WordArt.
2. One slide for each rule.
3. An appropriate descriptive picture or text box for each rule.
4. An appealing theme and custom animations on each slide.

We will present our slideshows on Nov. 2.

3rd Grade

Using MS PowerPoint, students will prepare a 2 minute, 6-slide presentation about 10 Technology Ethics Tips and Hints that includes the following:

1. A title page with your name and the title in WordArt.
2. One slide for each rule.
3. An appropriate descriptive picture or text box for each rule.
4. An appealing theme and custom animations on each slide.

We will present our slideshows on Nov. 2.

2nd Grade

Students will watch “Router’s Birthday Surprise” and learn about online and real-world safety at NetSmartzKids.org.  Upon completion of the lessons,  students will sign a safety contract and earn an Internet Safety Badge, declaring them Net Smartz Kids.

1st Grade

Using Internet Explorer and KidPix, student will watch Starfall.com videos about short vowel sounds, then complete a slide show with pictures and words that contain those sounds.

Kindergarten

Students will interactively learn about Autumn on the SMART Board then apply what they know in KidPix to make pictures with a Fall theme.  Each picture will contain a self portrait and some favorite things about the season,  like leaf piles or the World Series.

2011-2012 has already been an exciting school year, we’ve been very busy in the lab learning the basics about software and hardware, how the Internet works, and technology ethics.  Kindergarten did such a good job with their mousing and keyboarding skills that they are already surfing our website looking for fun games to play!

1st and 2nd grade used KidPix, our graphic design software, to sketch pictures of a computer and peripherals that they’d like to own.  They are very accurate as well as colorful;  They look great hanging on the classroom wall!

October is National Bully Prevention Awareness Month, and 3rd-5th have been learning about cyber safety with an emphasis on netiquette and cyberbullying lessons from NetSmartzKids.org and BrainPop.com.  This week they will be showing what they’ve learned with PowerPoint and MS Publisher.  Up next- email from Gaggle.net for 3-5, EM Games for K-2.

Now that we’ve learned about blogs and seen what they have in common, it’s time for you to make your own blog post!  Don’t forget what make a blog unique:

1. Theme
2. Date
3. Title
4. Words/Pictures

Kindergarten

Use kidpix to draw a “blog post” and give it a title.  Today’s theme will be “At The Farm”.  You can draw or use stickers and stamps to illustrate what you saw at the farm today.  Don’t forget to add a title and today’s date at the top of the page.

1st

Use kidpix or PowerPoint to make a “blog post”.  Try to make it look as much like the blogs we saw in class as you can.  Don’t forget to add a title and today’s date at the top of the page.

2nd

Use PowerPoint to make a “blog post”.  Try to make it look as much like the blogs we saw in class as you can.  Add a title and today’s date at the top of the page, and include details that relate to your theme.

3rd-5th

First we will talk about the difference between blogs and other web pages, then discuss how to write an interesting blog post.

http://www.gaggle.net/blog/tmiano

Today we will look at the economics of running a hot dog stand.  There a lot of things you have to do before you start selling Hot Dogs to the public, so we will consider them with a rousing game of Hot Dog Stand!  Then, after you’ve had some experience running a stand at the stadium, we’ll crank up the pressure a notch and let you run things your own way with Hot Dog Bush.

Hey there! Finish your Excel project then click here for a while.  If you have a great day, we’ll spend some time at the end of class doing free time.

www.timeforkids.com

holidays.kaboose.com/earth-day

www.fws.gov/endangered/

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