Sunday, January 30, 2011

Lyndon B. Johnson Lesson

How did Lyndon B. Johnson expand the rights and freedoms of people of our county?
How did Lyndon B. Johnson show positive character traits?

Click on the link above to explore the Lyndon B. Johnson glog.

Record important words that relate to the life of Lyndon B. Johnson to use in your word cloud. Choose words that will help you describe him and his efforts to expand our rights through the Great Society and expanding voting rights.

Go to http://www.wordle.net/ and click on the word "create." Type your words into the first box and click "GO." When you see your word cloud click "Print."

Practice reading through your word cloud, so you'll be ready to share it with the class. You'll need to explain how each word relates to the life of Lyndon B. Johnson.

Eighth Week

3rd-5th -It's time to assess our keyboarding skills! After completing a lesson on Type2Learn, we will be visiting sense-lang.org to see how many words correct per minute we can type and compare our results to our first test from September. I'm excited to see your progress!

1st -2nd - We've worked hard learning how to access and navigate Discovery Education, Renzulli Learning, and the grade level blogs. This week we will review these great resources and learn how to save these sites to your favorites at home.

Kindergarten - We are really getting the hang of how to use the mouse and can name several parts of a computer (keyboard, mouse, monitor). We will continue to use the kindergarten blog and explore the list of reading sites. 

All students will be given a cheat sheet of websites. It will be attached to the inside of the front cover of the communication log. Also, their student numbers will be written on the cover. They will use their student numbers for their username and password on Discovery Education and Renzulli Learning.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Grade Level Blogs

Please visit our grade level blogs (to the right of this post)! You'll find lots of lists of educational sites by grade level and subject area. Enjoy!