Archive for April, 2009

Wednesday, April 29

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Good Afternoon,

Please start with typing for the first 15 minutes.
We’ll then continue with our silent movie projects & scripts.

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Good Morning,
Please start by filling in you walk and bike survey.
Next please do Master Key for 15 minutes.
Finally I’ll show you the Comic Life template for submitting you pictures for Art Night.

Tuesday, April 28

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Good Morning,

Please fill out your walk and bike survey for today and Monday.
Later we will be getting some of our best pictures ready for Art Night.
I’ll show you how after typing.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Good morning… Today Mrs. Crouse will be helping you in the lab. Below is your assignment.

Master Key: Please work on Master Key for approximately 15 minutes. NO PARATYPER…

Then I would like you to choose from the following activities:
Google Sketch Up: design a bird house or bird feeder. Please be sure to save your work. If you are looking for ideas, please look here. http://www.birdhouses101.com/

Garage Band:

Animationish:

These are your only options.
Mr. Lauer

Ms Meyers Native American Research Sites:

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Ms Meyers Native American Research Sites:

http://www.animaltribe.com/

http://nativeamericans.mrdonn.org/northwest.html

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/history/chinook.htm

http://www.peace4turtleisland.org/pages/longhouse.htm

http://www.childrenoftheearth.org/PowerAnimals/shuffle16.html

Aerial View of Lewis Elementary

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Mrs. Kennedy’s husband, Craig Alness, took these images of Lewis while working on a photo shoot. I thought you might enjoy them…

Aerial View of Lewis Elementary

Aerial View of Lewis Elementary

Wednesday, April 22

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Good Morning and Happy Earth Day!

Please begin by filling out your walk and bike survey. 4th Graders should also fill out a survey for Monday April 20th.

We’ll then do our daily dose of typing culminating in a short game of Para Typer.

We’ll spend the rest of class exploring our planet using Google Earth.

At 11:00 AM this morning we will streaming a live broadcast from our own Lewis Garden in honor of Earth Day. This stream will feature some of our Lewis students and will be accessible all over the world.

You can watch this by clicking here.

Tuesday, April 21

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Good Morning,

Please fill out your walk and bike survey for both Monday the 20th and today.
Afterwards please start typing in Master Key.
Ms. Jen’s check her website for new links to your astronomy unit.

Later in the period I show you a very unique web music project call Thru-You.

Wordle and Guttenberg

Friday, April 17th, 2009

wordle.net

Guttenberg Project

Thursday, April 16

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Good Afternoon,

We’ll start with typing for the first 15 minutes of class.
We will then continue our work on our video projects.
You’ll need to find your writing in Text edit and open the Movies folder in a new Finder window.

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Good Morning,

Today’s Agenda:

1. Fill out Walk and Bike survey
2. Master Key
3. iPhoto – effects and editing

Wednesday, April 15

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Good Afternoon 3rd Graders,

Please start with typing.
We’ll working on writing for our movie projects during the second half of class.

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Good Morning,

Please fill out today’s walk and bike survey.
Then we’ll get our daily dose of typing in Master Key.
Finally we will be getting into iPhoto to learn a few new tricks.