Kindergarten: practicing Mouse skills of click and drag as well as double clicking with opening shortcuts of links on the desktop to these two games:
ABC "Puzzles" & Number Matching.
As always, when the students finish the games/activities assigned, they are able to peruse the rest of the website. Many times, they find some really cool activities that I hadn't discovered yet!
First Grade: Last week, while we were all in circus mode, I found a website with some fun carnival-esque educational games. The first graders are starting out this week with Math Popper. Another one of my favorites is Circus Simon. (I just found a classic Simon game at a thrift store for $2. Circa 1984-ish!) Again, the students are able to go onto other educational games on Funschool after a few rounds of Math Popper.
Second Grade: Second graders are showing me their mouse skills plus understanding of clicking on links (active links), scrolling, etc.... all skills needed for manipulating the Internet and other programs. We are using Mousercise, which ends with a really cute certificate that we were going to print and bring home; However, the names are not showing up when we print them! From there, the students are practicing their typing skills on Alpha Munchies typing game on ABCYa.com.
Third Grade: I am writing this post about 3rd grade before my trial run with the lesson occurs, so I am hoping for the best as it is a tad complex. For the last two rounds of specials, I have been attempting to focus on concept mapping. Our excursion into Scriblink.com was fun, to say the least. I didn't quite go in the direction I hoped it would, with us creating a concept map together. So then last week we created All About Me concept maps on Microsoft Paint, which went very well. I think the students enjoyed the activity which was a little more organized than the Scriblink activity.
ON TO THIS WEEK:
We were going to use showscreen.com to broadcast my laptop to all computers via the Internet. This is a cool tool for anyone to use when explaining a process to someone. However, my 5th and 6th graders tried it on Monday and it did not quite cooperate with our Internet connection here in the lab. So, I scrapped that idea and we created a brainstorm map on bubbl.us together as a group about everything they have learned in Science Specials class. The students then played a game teaching about recycling and cleaning litter called Michael Michael Go Recycle! In their new 3rd grade folder on the desktop of links, I also added Arthur's Groovy Garden, which Mrs. Borg's class played on Monday.
Fourth Grade: Fourth grade is exciting for these next two 'rounds' of specials as we are BLOGGING. These are very safe, educational friendly blogs at kidblog.org. Each class can only view the posts of the students in that class, and the blog is private to only our class and myself. Also, each post has to be approved by me, which goes for posts and comments as well.
Fifth Grade: Fifth graders are finally getting to present their Power Point presentations that they have been working on for three weeks now. All students are grading each other as well, and there have been some great comments coming out of this process.
Sixth Grade: Sixth graders presented their Prezi presentations on Monday over doughnuts. This week, they are delving into the world of blogging. Today they learn some aspects of Netiquette= how to write in a non threatening way on the Internet as well as commenting respectfully, etc. The students will be graded on two blog posts as well as two comments on another student's blog post.
Looking back, this post was quite wordy! I hope some of you are getting use out of the links included in these posts!
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