Ms. Tenebrini's Class Conquer the Lego Mindstorms Challenges

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Mr. Andersen's Class Accepts and Conquers the Challenge

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Mrs. Moulton's Student Conquer the Robotics Asteroid Challenge

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Sony QRIO Robots Dancing

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Snipping Tool

You can take a "picture" of your work on the computer by using the Snipping Tool that is installed on Windows 7.  It should be located in Start, Snipping Tool or you can type it in the search option.



Once you open the application you can click, hold and drag over the image you want. Once you let go it will open the Snipping Tool application and you can save your "picture".



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Robots are Here!

Teachers and assistants spent part of the September 11 PD day building Lego Mindstorms for use with the 5th graders this coming week. It was great fun to build them and more fun to program. Students will be using the NXT-G software to plan, test and modify sequences of instructions from a variety of real life robotic behavior.[gallery]

Special thanks to Mr. Gorneau, Mrs. Uhlman, Dane and Annabel Ulhman who came in to build and program the bots during the weekends.

Do You Know Your Math Facts?

Two Tens for a Five

UltraKey

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Students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade focus on improving their keyboarding speed and accuracy. These are a few of the many benefits to learning the correct technique:

• Improve written communication skills


• Communicate in a digital world


• Increase muscle memory


• Prevent injury

Lessons are for learning and practicing. Lessons are broken into 12 categories which teach you the best way to type each letter and letter combinations.

When you complete a lesson you earn a green check. You must go through all steps of a lesson to earn a green check mark on the lesson menu.

Every lesson you complete has a matching skill check. Use the blue check Skills check icon to check your speed and accuracy if you complete the check successfully you earn a green check mark. Once you complete a skills check you can move onto the next lesson.

Lesson completion timeline:

• Lesson 1 - Sept. 21


• Lesson 2 - Oct. 12


• Lesson 3 - Nov. 2


• Lesson 4 - Nov. 30


• Lesson 5 - Dec. 20


• Lesson 6 - Jan. 25


• Lesson 7 - Feb. 28


• Lesson 8 - Mar. 15


• Lesson 9 - April 19


• Lessons N1-N3 – May 31

Grade level expectations:

• 3rd grade: 15 words per minute with 94% accuracy


• 4th grade: 20 words per minute with 96% accuracy


• 5th grade: 25 words per minute with 98% accuracy

Students can also practice at home using Typing Pal

Best Self, Best Work

Wordle Sizes

The size of a word is determined by how many times you type in the same word.



Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

Mrs. Morris' Class Likes to Read Books...

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Ms. Hobbs' Class Likes to Read Books

Mindstorm Bridge

Ms. Walter's Class Likes to Read Books

LEGO Mindstorm Creations

Password Word Search

Words can be forward, backward, or diagonally. Good luck!

Who Teaches Who?

This year your child will have 2 different teachers for Information Technologies. Below you can see who is working with each homeroom teacher for Semester I. Please contact your child's IT teacher if you have any questions: Ms. Sloan or Mrs. Gorneau. The teachers will switch for Semester II.

Typing Pal

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Students should be practicing Typing Pal at home every other night for a maximum of 15 minutes to improve their speed and accuracy. Parents should be supporting their children by encouraging them to use correct posture and finger techniques. Students should be monitored at all times while using the Internet and Typing Pal requires Internet access to practice. Parents received an email with login and password information.

Student expectations:
Grade 3: 15 WPM with 94% accuracy
Grade 4: 20 WPM with 96% accuracy
Grade 5: 25 WPM with 98% accuracy

Please contact Ms. Sloan or Mrs. Gorneau if you have any questions.