Unis: Saw 7th grade Language Arts students checking out biographies for upcoming essays and presentations.
McCollough:
1st Grade:
- iPad demo; how to turn it on, access the internet, change the website, etc.
- Demonstration of Planet Pal on PBSkids.org It’s a fun pattern identification game.
- Independent practice
- Demonstrated how to close a website and close open apps
2nd Grade:
- Short video introducing how to write code “Code Stars”
- iPad demo
- Star Wars coding demo
- Independent practice.
3rd Grade:
- Quick review of dictionary and thesaurus and print vs. digital discussion.
- Demo on iPads and how to navigate dictionary.com and thesaurus.com
- Independent work: using dictionary.com to find the definitions and parts of speech of various words and using thesaurus.com to list synonyms and antonyms for words.
Stout: Check outs with Ms. Thompson and Mr. Melvin’s 6th grade Language Arts classes. Will also finalize my spring order of new books.