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Weather Paragraph

Ms. Shapiro — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:09:57 +0000

Today you will independently use Microsoft Word to key in your paragraph about weather, which you will use to help teach your Learning Buddies all about weather. Remember to place a school heading in the header area of the page. Center a title and indent your paragraph. When you finish typing run the grammar and spellcheck, change your font, and add a picture. Use your best keyboarding techniques.

Writing Prompt

Ms. Shapiro — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:12:55 +0000

Today we will put your newly acquired keyboarding skills to work! We will learn how to use Microsoft Word to set up a heading, set tab markers, center text, and use the first line indent for paragraphs. Key in your writing prompt once you have setup your heading and title. Next week we will learn how to double space and use the grammar and spelling check.

Type To Learn

Ms. Shapiro — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:27:46 +0000

To complement your keyboarding lessons in the classroom, today we will learn how to use the software Type to Learn. We will be using keyboard covers to cover our hands. Your goal today is to complete Lesson 1 in the software.

What’s For Dinner?

Ms. Shapiro — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:49:25 +0000

Today we will gather at the whiteboard to review the food chain components and play the Food Chain Game.

At your workstation you will conduct research on the food chain of one of five animals. You will use Enchanted Learning’s website below to gather the information in the Food Chain Research document.

Next week you will take your research and organize it in Kidspiration.

Done early today? Try the following websites:

Food Chains

Quia – Grade 3 What Living Things Need & the Food Chain

Cloud Voicethread Poems

Ms. Shapiro — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:47:35 +0000

Cumulus, Stratus, Nimbus, oh my! Grab the digital cameras- we’re heading outside to lie down in the playground field to take pictures of clouds! We’ll write a poem about them and put them in Powerpoint, adding our picture of the clouds as the background. Next, we will create an avatar for our identity on Voicethread using My Avatar Editor. Finally we will create a class Voicethread of our poems.

Cloud haiku

Weather Reporting and Predicting

Ms. Shapiro — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:39:01 +0000

You will use the activities in the website below to help you better understand reporting and predicting weather. In the first activity, you will use common weather symbols to create a weather map to report the weather. In the next activity, you will use temperature, precipitation, and cloud coverage to predict the weather in various regions.

Internet Safety

Ms. Shapiro — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:03:20 +0000

Today we will explore ways to keep yourself safe on the Internet. Click on the picture below to take you to the iSafe website. Then click on watch video. After viewing the video we will regroup on the rug in front of the whiteboard to discuss what you have just seen.

Grade 3 Introduction To The Lab

Ms. Shapiro — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:33:08 +0000

Grade 3 has been doing a great job learning how to keyboard in the classroom. It’s time for an introduction to the lab.

Today we will assign seats, review the rules of the lab, make sure everyone can log in, and review the dock and the Heights Technology Blog. We will also learn how to create a folder to store all of last year’s documents.

Introduction To Keyboarding

Ms. Shapiro — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:46:57 +0000

You will spend several weeks learning how to keyboard using the AlphaSmarts in your classroom. Try the websites listed under the Keyboarding page to help practice your keyboarding skills at home.