Keyboarding practice

Our students continue to practice keyboarding skills this week. The goal is to become familiar with letter location on a QWERTY keyboard and reduce "hunt and peck" typing habits. Keeping your fingers on the home row will greatly improve speed of typing as well. Our current bulletin board enforces this idea as it will demonstrate for students the amazing things you can create in writing when looking for letters on the keyboard is not something you are concentrating on.

Our third graders will help to decorate our board with creative figures 😀!

Signs of Fall and Typing Goats!

This past week our students used Word to type "Signs of Fall", changing the font type, size, and color to one of their choice. They then inserted pictures of what they like about fall: Autumn leaves, scarecrows, pumpkins, etc.

They also practiced keyboarding skills with a typing Scottish goat 😀.

IPads on Wednesday and Thursday

Here are pictures of our students using iPads in the lab on Wednesday and Thursday.  It was fun using the QR code app to read and compose "Would you rather" questions, and Scratch Jr coding was challenging!

QR Code Tuesday!

Here are questions our students made up themselves:

"Would you rather be 7 feet tall or 1 foot tall?" - Isaiah

"Would you rather be stuck in space or stranded in the desert?" - Fatimah

"Would you rather eat spiders or ghost peppers?" - Paige

"Would you rather be a tree or a fish?" - Benjamin

Our classes continue making up "Would you rather?" questions to turn into QR codes and share with friends:

QR Codes Monday

Today we did work with iPads! We learned how to use QR codes to read "would you rather." questions, and then we learned how to create our own QR codes. Later we did a little coding work using Scratch Jr apps.

Friendly Letters and Puppies 😀

Our classes have been practicing typing skills by writing friendly letters to their teachers or to me.  Letters that they wrote to me will be kept for future reference because I asked them to tell me five favorite things. We will use those favorite things to work on research and PowerPoint projects later in the year.

We also had our first assembly!

Our kindergarten classes are still practicing using the mouse on the computer.  Joshua, a fifth-grader, made a wonderful smart board project for our kindergarten students! He covered pictures of puppies with layers of "paint" , and the students each took a turn at uncovering the puppy by erasing the paint with the mouse. Then, each student got to erase the paint another time using the smart board eraser. Good fun and good practice!

Joshua, our smart board hero!

See you next week!