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Thursday, May 14

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Good Afternoon,

We will start with 10 minutes of Master Key, followed by 5 minutes of ParaTyper (I will let you know when to start).
You will spend the last part of class finishing you movie(s). This will be the last day to work on them. Remember to be respectful to other students by keeping a quiet classroom.
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Good Morning,

4th Graders: Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful trip. We sure missed you.
Please start today off with typing for 15 minutes. I will then have a few things to show you.

5th Graders: Please take the first 15 minutes of class to either type or work on class assignments (Ms. Jen’s Class). We’ll then get back to the project we started yesterday.

Wednesday, May 13th

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Good Afternoon,

Please start with typing for 15 minutes.
I’ll then show this amazing new plugin for Google SketchUp.
Finally we’ll get to finishing our video projects. I would like to have a sharing on Thursday.

Good Morning 5th Graders,

Please fill out the walk and bike survey.
We’ll then be typing for 15 minutes.
More to come…

Wednesday, May 6

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Good Afternoon,

Please finish one drill in Master Key.
Afterwards continue working on your silent movie project.
When you have finished your voice recording, begin adding two or three music track to enhance your video.
I’ll will be giving a couple of examples later in class.
If you need head phones, grab them off of the keyboard cart in the back of the room.

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Good Morning,

First, please fill out today’s walk and bike survey.
Next you will have most of class today to finish your comic life photo project.
When you are done make sure to save and then choose one of the following.

1. Finish Sketch Up Bird House project to share at art night.
2. Finish Animationish Run for the Arts Project to share at Art Night.
3. Work in Animationish, Comic Life or Google Earth.

Remember that Boomin Beats meets today at lunch recess!

Tuesday, May 5

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Good Morning,

Please fill out your walk and bike survey for today and Monday.
Next we need to finish up our pictures for Art Night.
You are choosing 5 pictures to share. Make sure they look the way you want them in iPhoto, then bring them into your Comic Life document that you started last week.
When you think you are finished call me over.

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.

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.

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.