March 2016

Thursday, March 31,2016

Fifth grade:

• Opened Excel
• Chose ranges
• Used Auto Sum tool
• Created Average formula
• Dragged formulas to other cells
• Formatted cells to currency
• Saved document
• Uploaded document
• Submitted document
• Earned Dojo points

Fourth grade:

• Opened Excel
• Chose a range
• Created a Total Column
• Used the Auto Sum tool
• Inserted a chart
• Saved document
• Uploaded document
• Submitted document
• Earned Dojo points

Intervention: worked on Google Slides, editing, and proofreading their presentations.

Kindergarten through Third grade:

• Reviewed rhythms
• Played tic tac toe on the floor
• If they wanted to place their "X" or "O" on a spot, they had to clap the rhythm in that square

Mrs. Parmenter's and Mrs. Naessens' classes earned enough Dojo points to have a Musical Chairs party for a reward.

At 1:30 students celebrated their "March Is Reading Month" with an all school celebration.

Wednesday, Marcy 30, 2016
Fourth and Fifth grade:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Edited spreadsheets
• built formulas
• copied formulas
• worked on Tynker.com
• Using earned Dojo points, they explored pre-approved web pages

Kindergarten through Third grade:

• Reviewed rhythms
• Played tic tac toe on the floor
• If they wanted to place their "X" or "O" on a spot, they had to clap the rhythm in that square
• Mrs. V's daughter Jessica read music stories to Kindergarten students.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Mrs. V had to be gone.

Monday, March 28, 2016
Fifth grade:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Finished editing their Planets project (after downloading Google Slides to Power point)
• They uploaded their projects
• Using earned Dojo points, they explored pre-approved web pages

Fourth grade:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Began editing a Google Sheets document
• Learned vocabulary:
• Row heading
• Column
• Label
• Value
• Active cell
• Cell address
• Spent time on code.org
• Using earned Dojo points, they explored pre-approved web pages

Third grade:

• Crane's class discussed search engines, safe web pages, and reliable web pages
• They learned about kiddle.co
• They earned enough Dojo points to have a party
• Snyder's class worked on kiddle.co
• Learned links
• Previewed a free version of tynker.com (a free coding web page)

First grade:

• Logged onto Google Classroom.
• Navigated to Google Drawings
• Attempted to create an Easter Bunny with drawing tools

Intervention: We did sight words

Kindergarten:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Navigated to Google Drawings
• Attempted to draw a house with Google Drawings

Second grade:

• Students worked on Kid Safe Search Engine: Kiddle.co
• Earned enough Dojo points to have a party (exploring pre-approved web pages)

Friday, March 25, 2016
No School---Good Friday

Thursday, March 24, 2016
Fifth grade

• Began a Google slides presentation: Planets
• Followed these guidelines
• Type your name on the title slide
• Add one fact about each planet.
• Add one piece of clip art to each slide.
• Choose a design template
•  Copy the "share" URL
• Submit
• Spelling counts!
• We updated our Google account settings

Fourth grade:

• Submitted a Marvelous Measurement Glog
• Learned terms:
• Fonts need to all be the same color.
• Fonts need to be the same style.
• Use correct punctuation.
• Sentences must be COMPLETE thoughts.
• Sentences must have upper case letters to begin.
• You need to have the chart uploaded to your glog
• Names have to start with upper case letters.
• You need to submit the correct URL
• Began a Google Spreadsheet
•  Learned spreadsheet terms: 
• column,
• row, 
• active cell,
• navigate
• resize, 
• formula bar
• We updated our Google account settings

Third grade:

• learned about vibration in sound with: 
• How to make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj1ZTBWkTcE
• How they sound professionally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdoTdG_VNV4
• We sang:
• Once An Austrian
• I Shoulda Known Better
• we discussed how good and bad decisions affect our futures
• Rag Mop
• It Matters
• Static Electricity
• We played ZAP with the information we learned today

Kindergarten:

• listened to a story
• interpreted the story with sound
• played instruments on the different parts
• sang various songs

Intervention: Sight words

Second grade:

• learned:
• Once An Austrian Went Yodeling
• The Goat
• various songs dealing with Spring

First grade:

• Due to being in the hallway (they used the Media Center for Kindergarten Round Up)
• We sang:
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• Head and Shoulder Knees and Toes
• Start Your Day With a Song
• We had ear training through various iPad Apps.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Fifth grade:

• submitted their "Google Slides" project via sharing URL
• worked on Master Slides
• worked on Typing Web
• recorded their WPM score on a Google Doc

Fourth grade:

• logged onto Google classroom
• went to Typing web.com
• while the bulk of students worked on Typing Web, individual students came up toe the Teacher's Station for personal conferences about their latest assignment

Third grade:

• learned about vibration in sound with: 
• How to make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj1ZTBWkTcE
• How they sound professionally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdoTdG_VNV4
• We sang:
• Once An Austrian
• I Shoulda Known Better
• we discussed how good and bad decisions affect our futures
• Rag Mop
• It Matters
• Static Electricity
• We played ZAP with the information we learned today

First grade:

• Mrs. Nurenberg's and Ms. Whaley's classes earned a Dojo party so they played Musical Chairs for their music class
• Classes NOT earning their parties:
• learned a song: I like my bike
• played instruments to keeping a steady beat

Intervention: 

• We worked on sight words
• Reading

Kindergarten:

• listened to a story
• interpreted the story with sound
• played instruments on the different parts
• sang various songs

Second grade:

• learned:
• Once An Austrian Went Yodeling
• The Goat
• various songs dealing with Spring

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Fifth grade:

• logged onto Google classroom
• edited their Google Slides document
• submitted their Google Slides document
• took and recorded the score of a timed test
• earned Dojo points to redeem at the end of class

Fourth grade:

• logged onto Google classroom
• went to Typing web.com
• while the bulk of students worked on Typing Web, individual students came up toe the Teacher's Station for personal conferences about their latest assignment

Third grade:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• opened Google Docs
• formatted text
• researched online (using reliable sites)
• submitted our work online

First grade:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• navigated to Google Drawings
• using the line tool and ellipse tool, they played tic tac toe--while sharpening their click and drag skills.
  

INTERVENTION: worked on transition words (per teacher directive)

Kindergarten:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• navigated to Google Drawings
• used the Ellipse tool (we created Easter Eggs)

Second grade:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• navigated to gmail.
• we discussed acceptable use policy
• we discussed what kind of messages are appropriate for email
• we practiced sending email

Monday, March 21, 2016

Fifth grade:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• added slide transitions to their Google Slides presentation
• played "ZAP" to review terms

Fourth grade:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• opened Powerpoint
• created a state report with the following criteria:
• All states start with upper case
  All have four facts about states
  All states have pictures about the state
  All slides have an animation
  All slides have transitions

Third grade:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• opened Google Docs
• formatted text
• researched online (using reliable sites)
• submitted our work online

First grade:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• navigated to Google Drawings
• using the line tool and ellipse tool, they played tic tac toe--while sharpening their click and drag skills.

INTERVENTION: worked on word maps (and what we would like to write on)

Kindergarten:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• navigated to Google Drawings
• used the Ellipse tool (we created Easter Eggs)

Second grade:

• logged onto Google Classroom
• navigated to gmail.
• we discussed acceptable use policy
• we discussed what kind of messages are appropriate for email
• we practiced sending email

Friday, March 18, 2016

Fourth and Fifth grade each earned enough Keyboard points to have a keyboard party. Each class had to have a cumulative score of 100 words per minute.

Kindergarten through Third grade began their listening lessons (since we're without a Chrome cart until after Spring Break).

We explored these sites together:

• Composer Timeline: http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_timeline.asp
• Composer by style: http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_period.asp
• Pictures with facts: http://www.classicfm.com/composers/purcell/guides/purcell-facts/
• To review the facts we learned we played: ZAP!

Intervention: Sight words

Ms. Whaley's and Mrs. Baker's classes earned enough Dojo points to have a party. They played:

• musical chairs
• Go noodle

Our afternoon classes were blessed with the Irish Dancers. Click here to see a short video of them.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Fourth and Fifth grade:

• Worked on Typing Web if they finished their work
• Continued creating a Google Slide Document
• added clip art
• added transitions
• added text (and formatted it)
• searched web for reliable information
• Earned Dojo points
• Spent earned points on free time

Third grade:

• Rehearsed for the 2:15 sing-a-long
• Played: "ZAP" with questions about Bass Clef
• Played Xylophones when they read the Bass clef notes

First grade:

• Prepared for tomorrow's Irish sing-a-long
• http://safeshare.tv/w/ETKfrrCwml
• Practiced listening skills (with the above URL)
• Kept the steady beat with the music

Intervention: Finished Irish worksheets

Kindergarten:

• Prepared for tomorrow's Irish sing-a-long
• Practiced listening skills with "Sleight Ride"
• Kept the steady beat with the music

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Fourth and Fifth grade:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Continued creating a Google Slide Document
• added clip art
• added transitions
• added text (and formatted it)
• searched web for reliable information
• Earned Dojo points
• Spent earned points on free time

Third grade:

• Prepared for tomorrow's Irish sing-a-long
• Renewed their understanding of Bass Clef
• As a class viewed:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZEoZpc8b4
• http://www.musictechteacher.com/music_quizzes/cg_quiz_invaders_music_note_names.htm
• Played "Zap" to reinforce their understanding
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First grade:

• Prepared for tomorrow's Irish sing-a-long
• http://safeshare.tv/w/ETKfrrCwml
• Practiced listening skills (with the above URL)
• Kept the steady beat with the music

Kindergarten:

• Prepared for tomorrow's Irish sing-a-long
• Practiced listening skills with "Sleight Ride"
• Kept the steady beat with the music

Intervention: worked on Arctic Fox report on Chrome Book.

Afternoon classes were cancelled for Professional Development.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Fifth grade:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Took a School Improvement survey
• Began creating a Google Slide Document
• Earned Dojo points
• Spent earned points on free time

Fourth grade:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Took a School Improvement survey
• Continued work on the "United States" slide show they began yesterday
• Earned Dojo points
• Spent earned points on free time

Third grade

• formatted a Google Doc.
• Bold
• Italic
• Underline
• Font Size
• Earned Dojo points
• Spent earned points on free time
• Worked on Keyboarding.

First grade:

• We discussed internet safety
• We looked at: http://www.safesearchkids.com/
• We searched "safe image"
• Worked on keyboarding

Kindergarten:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Took a School Improvement survey
• Learned how to create symbols with keys on the keyboard
• Earned Dojo points for free time later in class

Second grade:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Took a School Improvement survey
• Inserted clip art to a Google Doc
• Formatted Text
• Earned Dojo points for free time later in class

Monday, March 14, 2016

Fifth grade worked on:

• Creating JPEG's on Paint
• using:
• paint brush
• curve tool
• line tool
• holding down shift key to make perfect circle
• holding down shift key to make perfect line
• Checked email
• Cleaned out mailbox
• Earned Dojo points for free time later in class

Fourth grade worked on:

• Google slides
• inserting slides
• Inserting clip art
• Inserting text
• Checked email
• Cleaned out mailbox
• Earned Dojo points for free time later in class

Third grade formatted a Google Doc.

• Bold
• Italic
• Underline
• Font Size

Worked on Keyboarding.

First grade:

• We discussed internet safety
• We looked at: http://www.safesearchkids.com/
• We searched "safe image"
• Worked on keyboarding

Kindergarten:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Took a School Improvement survey
• Learned how to create symbols with keys on the keyboard
• Earned Dojo points for free time later in class

Second grade:

• Logged onto Google Classroom
• Took a School Improvement survey
• Inserted clip art to a Google Doc
• Formatted Text
• Earned Dojo points for free time later in class

Friday, March 11, 2016

Fourth and fifth grade worked on Typingweb.com. They recorded their word per minute scores on a Google Doc.

K-3 didn't have music today, as Mrs. V was required to substitute teach in the lower elementary building.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Fifth grade's lesson was as following (about email) 

ISTE GRADES PRE 3-5: 6, 7:  TEKS: 01.A.01, 01.B.04, 07.B.01, 07.C.02, 08.B.01, 10.A.01, 10.B.03, 10.B.05, 10.B.08, 10.B.11, 11.A.02, 11.A.03, 11.A.04
Prepare	Turn on your computer. Situate your computer in your classroom where all students clearly see it. Open your Internet browser and type the address of your school’s instant messaging program. Create a blank instant message box to use a visual aide during this lesson. If your school does not allow instant message programs in the classroom, you can teach this lesson without your computer.
Software	Internet browser: Netscape Navigator, or Internet Explorer AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ Messenger, MSN Messenger.
Troubleshooting Tips	Before class, check that you have a working connection to the Internet; if your connection is not working properly please consult your school’s technology specialist You need to set up IM and have a screen name for the class. Your students may already have screen names and be familiar with IM.
Lesson Plan	Call on individual students to read aloud the Lesson 4.7 narrative aloud to the class. Emphasize that instant messaging screen names are developed by each individual computer user and can take a variety of formats. Call on individual students to read the method for using instant messaging software on page 205. Emphasize that using instant messaging software is similar to using e-mail software, but communication occurs instantly. It’s like talking on the phone, except over your computer. Call on individual students to read the method for creating emoticons on page 206.
Additional Activities and Exercises	Comprehension Questions: What is instant messaging? What does instant messaging remind you of? Do members of your family IM each other? Who would be on your buddy list? How many people can IM each other at one time? What information do you need to IM another person? What are emoticons? Why would you use them in your instant messages?

Fourth grade earned 1,000 Dojo points and were rewarded with a Party Day (where students spend their class time on pre-approved web sites).

Intervention: Sight words (from packet given by classroom teacher).

Kindergarten:

• Reviewed Irish Fest songs for next week's sing-a-long
• To reinforce pitch recognition we played: Little Sally Walker
• Sing song
• What is little Sally Walker doing in the song?
• Sing the song again
• Move with the song 
• (sing in a circle, "Sally" points to person while singing. 
• the new person becomes "Sally"

First grade:

• Reviewed Irish Fest songs for next week's sing-a-long
• Reviewed Peter and the Wolf
• Played classroom instruments for different characters in the story

Second and third grade:

• Reviewed Irish Fest songs for next week's sing-a-long
• To remember Treble Clef notes we divided into teams
• Each team had a glockenspiel
• Team had to name note pointed to and play it on the instrument
• The first team with the right answer wins a point

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Fifth grade uploaded their videos to Glogster:

Team #1

Team #2

Team #3 

Team #4 

Team #5 

Team #6

Team #7

Team #8

Team #9

Team #10 

Team #11

Fourth grade uploaded their charts to glogster. Navigating to a JPEG on the PC proved quite challenging!

Kindergarten:

• Reviewed Irish Fest songs for next week's sing-a-long
• To reinforce pitch recognition we played: Little Sally Walker
• Sing song
• What is little Sally Walker doing in the song?
• Sing the song again
• Move with the song 
• (sing in a circle, "Sally" points to person while singing. 
• the new person becomes "Sally"

First grade:

• Reviewed Irish Fest songs for next week's sing-a-long
• Reviewed Peter and the Wolf
• Played classroom instruments for different characters in the story

Second and third grade:

• Reviewed Irish Fest songs for next week's sing-a-long
• To remember Treble Clef notes we divided into teams
• Each team had a glockenspiel
• Team had to name note pointed to and play it on the instrument
• The first team with the right answer wins a point

Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Fifth grade:

• Dropped their Lunar Landers
• Recorded their data
• Fixed their Lunar Lander Glog to reflect their findings
• Earned Dojo points for free time

Fourth grade:

• Learned about creating a screen shot
• Learned about pasting and cropping a screen shot on Power point
• We saved their screen shot as a JPEG
• We uploaded their to Glogster

Mr. Murphy reads to first and third graders for: March Is Reading Month

Third grade:

• logged onto Google classroom
• edited a Google Doc
• Font size
• copied (ctrl C)
• cut (ctrl X)
• viewed (ctrl V)
• select all (ctrl A)
• closed window (ctrl W)
• Completed a keyboarding lesson
• Collected scores on Google Doc
• Earned Dojo points, which enabled them to enjoy a few minutes of free time (on Mrs. V's wiki)

First grade:

• logged onto Google classroom
• edited a Google Doc
• learned that the shift key makes things UPPER CASE
• select all (ctrl A)
• closed window (ctrl W)
• learned about Word Wrap
• learned that the ENTER key moves the insertion point down
• learned more about HOME ROW

Intervention: Per classroom teacher's request, student read Phonics books:

Kindergarten:

• Logged on
• Opened a Google Doc
• Typed in dog and cat
• Learned that Space bar puts a space between words
• Ctrl. shift Q Q=Log off

Second grade:

• Logged on
• Opened a Google Doc
• Edited text
• Inserted Clip Art using Google Search
• Earned Dojo points

Monday, March 7, 2016
Fifth grade earned 1,000 Dojo points, which afforded them a "Party Day" where they could choose fun links to explore on Mrs. V's wiki.

Fourth grade:

• completed their T.H.I.N.K. glogs
• worked on Typingweb.com
• recorded their scores on a google data.

Third grade:

• logged onto Google classroom
• edited a Google Doc
• Font size
• copied (ctrl C)
• cut (ctrl X)
• viewed (ctrl V)
• select all (ctrl A)
• closed window (ctrl W)
• Completed a keyboarding lesson
• Collected scores on Google Doc
• Earned Dojo points, which enabled them to enjoy a few minutes of free time (on Mrs. V's wiki)

First grade:

• logged onto Google classroom
• edited a Google Doc
• learned that the shift key makes things UPPER CASE
• select all (ctrl A)
• closed window (ctrl W)
• learned about Word Wrap
• learned that the ENTER key moves the insertion point down
• learned more about HOME ROW

Intervention: Per classroom teacher's request, student typed in her animal report about Arctic Fox.

Kindergarten:

• Logged on
• Opened a Google Doc
• Typed in dog and cat
• Learned that Space bar puts a space between words
• Ctrl. shift Q Q=Log off

Second grade:

• Logged on
• Opened a Google Doc
• Edited text
• Inserted Clip Art using Google Search
• Earned Dojo points

Friday, March 4, 2016
Mrs. V was gone from the school district.

Thursday, March 3, 2016
Fourth and Fifth graders finished their T.H.I.N.K. Glogs. 

Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third grade reviewed Irish Fest music. In addition:
Kindergarten:

• Sang Hello Everybody (in Spanish, French, Japanese, and English)
• Sany Little Bunny Foo Foo
• Played Little Sally Walker

First grade:

• Listened to Peter and the Wolf
• Observed the:
• Dynamics of the story
• Instrumentation of the story

Second grade:

Frere Jacques - Are You Sleeping

One of the first sings we sing to demonstrate the length of half notes is Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?). I sing it first, and students raise their hands when they hear the long words ("John" and "dong"). Then I draw the beats of the song on the board like this:

Then I point to the beats while the students clap the rhythm of the song (each line repeats).Ask students to find which beats are the long sounds. "Tie" the beats together.

Next, ask the students to find which beats are the fast sounds. Add eighth notes to line 3.

Then turn the tied notes into half notes and teach them the name of it.

Add note heads to all notes. Tell students they just turned the BEAT into the RHYTHM!

Third grade:

Ear training: http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/games/music-memo...

Online music games: http://www.musick8kids.com/html/musicgame.php

Three year old drummer http://www.gruntig.net/2014/08/little-kid-drums-with-philharmonic.html

Third Grade  student explanation of Irish famine:    http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=115330   http://musicteachersgames.com/noteChallenge1#

Google Play: Irish Singalong 15

Google Drive (Lyrics)

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Fourth and Fifth grade continued to work on their Glogs, where they describe T.H.I.N.K. before they post:

Third grade:

• edited a Google Doc page by
• spell checking
• aligning text
• coloring text
• submitting their work

First grade studied the World Wide Web. We learned that each web page has its own address. The World Wide Web affects the WHOLE WORLD, that's why each page has its own address. We each went to this panoramic sight to see World pictures: http://www.360cities.net/map#lat=45&lng=19&zoom=2
We earned Dojo points, so we were able to visit these sights for free time:

• http://www.arcademics.com/
• http://www.crayola.com/kids-playzone/fireworks-spectacular.aspx?n_id=2&mt=games

Intervention: We worked on conclusions for our Wolverine and Arctic Fox reports.

Kindergarten:

• Logged on
• Opened Google Classroom
• Opened Google Drawings
• Drew shapes using shape tool
• Practiced submitting assignment
• Navigated to http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/game11.htm after earning Dojo points.

Second grade learned how to spell check using Chrome books. We learned that right clicking and the alt key are very helpful!We earned Dojo points, so we were able to visit these sights for free time:

• http://www.arcademics.com/
• http://www.crayola.com/kids-playzone/fireworks-spectacular.aspx?n_id=2&mt=games