Ms. Day's first grade class worked in the computer lab using our new Dell Optiplex 7010s. They experimented with 3D and 2D shapes using the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives website created by the University of Chicago. It's a great learning tool. Check it out!
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Thinking about buying your child a new smartphone, tablet, gaming system, or laptop this holiday season? Visit PlatformForGood.org for a variety of downloadable cards that help you set online use parameters and open up discussions about keeping your child safe in the big, wide, virtual world. Students put their creative brains to work with the Lego WeDo sets recently. The whole grade level gets to experience the fun and learning. Lego WeDo incorporates construction and programming in an easy to manipulate interface. Students learn how to create programs and upload them to machines they have built. The immediate feedback provided is a powerful teacher. Creative problem solving, involving collaboration, trial and error, and estimation are a big part of a fun and engaging learning process. Explore more infographics like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually. Second graders were working on research skills using the Dell Netbooks in the classroom. Students were able to follow teacher movements in the World Book Online research resource. Being able to apply individually and immediately what they see and learn helps students reinforce and strengthen technology and research skills. Many first grade classes incubated chicken eggs in their classrooms in April. They turned the eggs three times daily and waited patiently for twenty-one days for the eggs to hatch. Ms. Gillen's students typed up the chicken facts they learned in a Microsoft Word documents and then recorded their favorite chicken fact into a PhotoStory to share with each other and their parents. |
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