Selah Viking Tech

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Friday, February 10, 2017

SECOND GRADE- 1st Grading Period

Our TECHNOLOGY WEBPAGE: http://selahvikingtech.weebly.com/

We started the year with 2nd graders creating an ABC Mouse account with an avatar. This would allow them something fun to do whenever they had completed the daily task. This program is FREE for our users. Just email your request to have it and I can send to you your child specific code.

Next we taught them how to use the Microsoft Paint program and related it to the Kidpix program they used last year.

The following few weeks we learned how to safely search Internet images, save using a right click in the documents folder, organize and label. In the future, we will be talking about copyright issues when using other people's images.

By the end of October, we were introducing the new EPIC website. These are free high interest ebooks just right for primary & intermediate students. Many of these are Acclerated Reader books and they have a large selection of Read to Me Audio books (my personal favorite). From this website we learned to use the Snip Tool to save screenshots.

By November, we were full speed into our first keyboarding lessons. We use a program called Typing.com. Each student has an individual account that tracks their progress. Weekly, we try to fit in 5-10 minutes of practice. Students work toward a goal of 12wpm with 100% accuracy.

Finally, we reviewed our Safety Rules and Coding that we did last year.

Please feel free to contact me with questions.

Mrs. Carney

Thursday, February 2, 2017

FIRST GRADE: 1st grading period

FIRST GRADE

Students began the year on ABC mouse adding avatars and learning the new login procedure. We taught them how to use the Paint program on a PC computer with the focus on tool bars.

Next we drew a connection with the tool bars they were already familiar with in Kidpix.

EBOOKS were on the agenda after working with publishing and tool bars. These are great free websites! http://www.getepic.com http://www.uniteforliteracy.com/

Each class has had a different experience in technology due to 2-hour delays, school assemblies, Winter program practice, Thankgiving and Winter breaks. In light of that here is a list of activities your child may have participated in:

1. Create Thank you cards for our Veterans using:

https://printable-cards.gotfreecards.com/categories/thank-you

2. Internet Safety http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/internetsafety99

3. Coding http://selahvikingtech.weebly.com/coding.html

4. Navigating from our new Selah Schools webpage to our technology page

Questions? SuzanneCarney@selahschools.org

Friday, January 13, 2017

KINDERGARTEN: First Grading Period

KINDERGARTEN

Students began the year learning to login to our computers. It's a little tricky when kids don't know their numbers or how to hold a mouse yet. Next, we selected avatars to use with our K-2 computer program called ABC Mouse. Then we began working with other programs suitable for Kindergarten use. Starfall is a teacher and kid favorite. Both ABC Mouse and Starfall make learning fun. ABC mouse is available for home use FREE of charge. Just contact Mrs. Carney (me). Starfall is available for home use in a limited form at http://www.starfall.com.

In addition, students have been working on a word processing program called Kidpix. They got to type their names, add backgrounds and stickers to their work. We work with the text resizing and changing the font, using capital letters and lower case, changing colors etc... With stickers we use the hotboxes to resize and flip as well as the moving tool to put things where we want them. We will continue these type of skills throughout the year.

Next students were introduced to eBooks from EPIC and Unite for Literacy. EPIC is an amazing site for books on audio as well as high interest educational videos. Unite for Literacy has some good books for very young readers that include audio.

Finally, we spent 2 class periods with internet safety and 1 session on Spanish websites.

Most of the programs above can be found here. http://selahvikingtech.weebly.com/.