Archive for October, 2008

Thursday, October 30

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

3rd Graders: Today will spend the first 15 minutes of class playing Para Typer. After that we’ll return to Sketch Up to finish tutorial 1 and look at tutorial 2.

4th Graders – Start with 10 minutes of Para Typer. We will then start the second tutorial for Sketch Up.

5th Graders – Start with 10 minutes of Para Typer. We will then have time to complete work on your election unit.

Wednesday, October 29

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

3rd Graders – Start with Master Key for the first 15 minutes of class. After that we will continue to work on our Sketch Up tutorial, “Learning to Draw Part 1″

4th Graders – Start with 10 minutes of typing. We will then work to complete the first of our three part tutorials in Sketch Up, “Learning to Draw Part 1″.

5th Graders – Let’s review what we learned about formatting. There will then be time to work on election unit projects.

Tuesday, October 28

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Good Morning,

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

4th Graders – Start with typing for 10 minutes or so. We will continue working on our Sketch Up tutorial. You can find this easily in the documents folder, or under File > Open Recent after launching Sketch Up.

5th Graders – Please start with typing. After 15 minutes we will look into some basics of page formatting. You can then continue to work on the Election Unit.

Thursday, October 23

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

3rd Graders we will continue working on our Google Sketch up tutorial. You’ll find it on the desktop calles “Start Drawing Part 1″.

4th Graders – We will continue working on the Sketch Up tutorial we started yesterday. You can find in on your desktop “Start Drawing Part 1″.

5th Graders – There is time today to continue to work on the election unit web quest. But before you begin I’d like to review what we did in Google Docs yesterday and give a option for working collaboratively on these projects.

Wednesday, October 22

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

3rd Graders – Start with typing for the first 15 minutes. We will then continue learning about Sketch Up.

4th Graders – We will watch another Tinikling video and talk about it. After this we will be getting into a little google Sketch Up.

5th Grader – We will start with another Tinikling video and talk about it. Afterwards we will continue working on our Election Unit. Today we will also discuss Text formating and document sharing in google docs.

Tuesday, October 21

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Good Morning,

We’re typing for the first part of our time together.
We will then look at a few videos about the bamboo dance that we are doing in music class.

Tinikling

Friday, October 17, 2009

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Good Morning…
This morning Ms. Jones will be working with you in the lab. I would like you to do 10 minutes of Master Key and then you can work on one of the following:
Google Docs
SketchUp
Garage Band
Google Earth…

Thursday, October 16

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Good Afternoon 3rd Graders,

Today we are doing the Sketch Up!
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Good Morning,

4th Graders – Please finish up you surveys and bar graphs. I would like us to share our graphs at the end of class.

5th Graders – Please get to work on you’re election units. There are some copies of papers you might need in the back. Use your time wisely. Section B is due Friday.

Wednesday, October 15

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Good Afternoon,

Today please start with typing.
Later we will be learning about a new program called “Sketch Up”.
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Good Morning,

4th Graders – We will get back to our surveys and bar graphs that we started last week. You should log into Google Docs to get started.

5th Graders – Please get work on the Election Unit. Remember that section B is due this Friday. If you are finished with section B, you should get started with section C.

Tuesday, October 14

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Good Morning 4th and 5th Graders,

We will spend most of our time together typing today.