Computer Whiz Winners-May

Every month Mr. Morton announces a "Computer Whiz" winner to a student in each 3rd, 4th and 5th grade class that is going above and beyond to showcase First Class Eason Behaviors in the computer lab, and throughout the school day, each and every day. Mr. Morton is just looking for someone that is showing Respect, Responsibility, Safety and Caring as a student, because they "want" to, not because they "have" to.

For the month of May the winners are:

3W-Emily C.

3P-Amber L.

3SC-Jordan S.

3ST-Jack U.

4B-Wil S.

4P-Parker W.

4H-Ashlynn Z.

4N-Jonah D.

5C-Jones P.

5H-Brandon T.

5S-Myles M.

5B-Chris H.

4th Grade CyberSafety Academy

The 4th grade students will be bringing home today (Thursday), tomorrow (Friday) and next Tuesday their finished posters, KWH Chart and information related to their Internet Safety topic they picked and learned a little bit more on.

Make sure you ask them 1 thing they learned and really try to focus on keeping your students comfortable with Internet Safety throughout the summer by talking to them.

It is something that might not happen to you or your student(s), but when it does you should feel comfortable that they know what steps to take to better resolve the issue(s).

Thanks.

3rd Grade Keyboarding-WPM Sheet

The 3rd grade students have finished keyboarding.  They have learned all of the keys on the keyboard and have completed all 4 of their Words Per Minute (WPM) typing tests.  The students will be bringing home a HomeRow Champ certificate attached to a Handwriting Rate worksheet.  On the certificate, in the upper right hand corner, is each students best WPM score from the 4 typing tests they took throughout the school year.  The Handwriting Rate worksheet is something the students took at the beginning of the school year, with the goal of being able to type as many WPM as they could write before the end of the school year.  Most students equalled or surpassed this goal.

Another goal was for the students to be able to type 3+ WPM by the end of the school year as the 4th grade typing goal is 5 WPM and the 5th grade typing goal is 10 WPM.

If you feel your student(s) needs more practice to help them become better typers before the start of the 2011-2012 school year follow this web site and the online games listed at the bottom for more practice.

5th Grade iMovie-5th Grade Memories

The 5th grade students have started to use iMovie to create and produce a movie related to 5th grade memories.  They had 2 topics to pick from.  10 things you liked/will miss about 5th grade or 10 things you want 4th graders to know about 5th grade.

Before they picked their topic they took the opportunity to watch a few iMovie video tutorials related to how to change font, how to add a slide, how to complete transitions, etc.  After learning more about how to use iMovie and after picking their topic they have picked their theme for their production to focus around, have been adding in the title slide, their information slides and their transitions.  Soon they will finish off their iMovie products by adding pictures that students have taken around the school along with sound effects if they have time.

They will export their iMovie project and Mr. Morton will burn a DVD with each classes finished products for their teachers to show to the students.

It will be interesting to see what they liked/miss about 5th grade or what they think 4th graders should know.  Stay tuned

Kindergarten Integration-Flower Drawings

Mrs. Roger's Kindergarten Class took the opportunity to use KidPix 3D to draw a flower/plant and label the different parts based on what they learned in their class.  They did an awesome job drawing and labeling over a 2 class periods and printed their finished product to showcase.  Attached are some student's finished products.  Please take a look.

4th Grade CyberSafety Academy

The 4th grade students are finishing the year picking an Internet Safety topic to explore more in depth.  They are using a wiki, developed by another WCSD Technology Teacher, titled CyberSafety Academy.  The 4 topics the students are allowed to pick from are:

How's Your Cy-Q
Copyright and Plagiarism
Cyberbullies
Viruses, Pop-Ups, and Spam

Once they picked their topic they then used a KWH chart on the computer to type out:

what they already Know
What they want to find out
How are they going to find it

Once they find all of this information, using related web sites on the CyberSafety Academy wiki, they then will use either KidPix3D, KerPoof or MakeBeliefsComix to create a story, poster or card related to the information they learned and they want others to know about.

They will be finishing this up before the end of the school year and will be bringing home their finished KWH chart and finish story, poster or card related to their Internet Safety Topic information.

1st Grade Integration-ABC Book

Mrs. Johnson's 1st Grade class took the opportunity to use KidPix 3D to create an ABC book.  Each student was provided a letter from the alphabet and then they had to use typing words, drawing pictures, stamps, stickers or animations in relationship to a word that starts with their letter. So for example if they had the letter B they could stamp an image of a basketball, draw a picture of a boy, and then do more related to the words they know that start with the letter B. Take a look at their finished products below:

Computer Whiz Winners-April

Every month Mr. Morton announces a "Computer Whiz" winner to a student in each 3rd, 4th and 5th grade class that is going above and beyond to showcase First Class Eason Behaviors in the computer lab, and throughout the school day, each and every day. Mr. Morton is just looking for someone that is showing Respect, Responsibility, Safety and Caring as a student, because they "want" to, not because they "have" to.

For the month of April the winners are:

3W-Cody A.

3P-Cade B.

3SC-Emma R.

3ST-Maggie R.

4B-Molly B.

4P-Jacob G.

4H-Carter F.

4N-Nathan T.

5C-Anna P.

5H-Katelyn M.

5S-Aidan M.

5B-Erica G.

4th Grade Microsoft Excel-Finished

The 4th grade students have finished their Microsoft Excel Survey and Pictograph project.  They did an awesome job picking a topic, making 5 choices related to their topic, surveying the students on which choice was their favorite, and then taking their information and importing it into their survey and pictograph.

With the information they imported into their Survey document they learned how to type their information into each cell, how to add each cell using formulas, and how to make a Pie, Bar and Line graph with labels and titles.

With the information they imported into their Pictograph document they learned how to type their information into each cell, how to find pictures online and save them to their desktop, how to import their pictures into their pictograph and how resize, copy and paste their pictures.

The awesome part with this project is that the students learned about each part of this project using screenshot videos Mr. Morton created. This allowed the students to view a screen recording of Mr. Morton's laptop along with his voice, which allowed the students to learn and differentiate at their own pace.

This web site will show you their finished documents.

4th Grade Microsoft Excel

Keyboarding Skills

The Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students are going to take a couple computer lab integration classes to better understand the use of the keyboard in relationship to typing properly.

The Kindergarten and 1st grade students are going to primarily focus on using both hands properly to type. Not so much focus on the use of the home row, but using the right hand for the keys located on the right side of the keyboard and using the left hand for the keys located on the left side of the keyboard.  This will allow the students to double their typing speed by using two hand instead of 1.  Once they become better on recognizing where the keys are located then they can practice more with using the proper finger related to each key.  The students can use these games at home to better help them learn to type:

Big Brown Bear Keyboard Game
Keyboard Climber Game
KeySeeker Keyboarding Game
3D Typing

The 2nd grade students are going to primarily focus on using both hands properly to type.  They are going to focus on learning the hand placement on the home row and start off by using their best judgement for which fingers relate to which keys.  They are still learning where the keys are located on the keyboard so over time they will become more comfortable with using the proper finger related to each key.  The students can use these games at home to better help them learn to type, as next year in 3rd grade typing will be the main focus of their curriculum.

Keyboard Climber
3D Typing
Dance Mat Typing