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Aug. 23-Aug. 27
Third graders will be signing in to Google Classroom to access and edit their homeroom Photo Flashcard slideshows like fourth and fifth graders completed last week. Fourth graders are beginning their...
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Aug. 30-Sept. 3
3rd Graders will be learning how to type in the address to their blog, log in with their blog username and password, and create their first post titled My First Post. Students will also understand how...
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Sept. 7-Sept. 10
Things are rocking along in technology. Monday is a school holiday. Fifth graders are beginning to help record and produce Morning Announcements. You can catch the daily announcements here at...
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Sept. 13-Sept. 17
This is Homecoming week for White Oak, which is a big deal since it only happens every three years. I attended Region 7’s workshop on the Robotics Board Competition for 4th and 5th grade G/T students...
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Sept. 20-Sept. 24
5th Grade – Students are continuing to build muscle memory for touch typing in the TypingClub platform. Students are working at their own pace to complete the first 126 lessons. 4th Grade – Students...
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Sept. 27-Oct. 1
5th Grade-Students will continue working at their own pace in Typing Club. 4th Grade-Students will complete the last module in Digital Passport called Mix and Mash. In this module, students review the...
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Oct. 4-Oct. 8
5th Grade-Fifth graders are continuing to work at their own pace to complete the first 126 lessons in Typing Club. I am amazed at how fast they are learning the keys. 4th Grade-Fourth graders have...
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Inspiration and Hope
I had an incident occur this week that inspired me and brought hope to my heart. A fourth grade student had been working on an individual project for about five weeks. She was learning how to play...
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Oct. 11-Oct. 15
5th Grade-Fifth graders are continuing to work at their own pace to complete the first 126 lessons in Typing Club. They are beginning to realize how being consistent and building muscle memory is...
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Oct. 19-Oct. 22
5th Grade-Fifth graders are continuing to work at their own pace to complete the first 126 lessons in Typing Club. They are beginning to realize how being consistent and building muscle memory is...
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Oct. 25-Oct. 29
This is a make-up work/makerspace week. Classrooms that had less than three strikes (a class receives a strike when someone fails to sign out of Google Classroom or put their screen shot in the trash)...
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Nov. 1-Nov. 5
4th and 5th Grade-Students began working on their animated slide to count down the days until Christmas. Students use a program called Tuxpaint to create a unique background image for their slide....
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4th and 5th Grade-Students opened Keynote on the dock of their computer and began work on their Countdown to Christmas slide. Students added the Tuxpaint drawing from last week as the background and...
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Nov. 15-Nov. 19
4th and 5th Grade-Students completed and turned in their Countdown to Christmas keynote slide. Now the hard task of choosing 15 to feature in Morning Announcements begins. You can see them by...
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
This tree was created by 206 images 4th and 5th grade students drew using Tuxpaint. Their artistic creativity never ceases to amaze me. This project is my favorite of the year.
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4th and 5th Grade-Students completed any assignments that had not been turned in or the class engaged in Makerspace if they had less than 3 strikes. 3rd Grade-Students posted the It’s Not All True...
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Dec. 6-Dec. 10
Grade 5 – Students went to the gym to practice for their Christmas Musical. Grades 3-4 Students participated in Hour of Code. Students clicked on the link and filtered the activities by choosing...
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Jan. 4 -Jan. 7
3rd Grade – Students practiced copying (Command C) and pasting (Command V) by creating a snowman using the slideshow created by Eric Curts. You can find a great list of resources on his blog here. To...
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3rd Grade – Students learned about copyright and how it affects them by watching the two videos below. Students then took a short quiz to indicate their level of understanding. 4th Grade – Students...
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