11/1/2015 November 1, 2015Our second project of the first quarter was creating our "wild selves". Our Wild Thing posts are now live and ready for your comments! In this project students each created an imaginary "wild thing". The Wild Self tile on the webmix takes us to a fun website sponsored by the New York Zoo and Aquarium where students used their imaginations to "Build Our Wild Selves" while learning about wild creatures. We hope you will visit and view their creations on our Kidblog page. During this activity students learned to use the snipping tool as well as entering text into their blogs. Our wild things below are Adelia, Marco, and Sara. Come read about us! My comments regarding technology grades:
The first quarter ends this week, and I have just posted grades in PowerSchool. Unless there is a very unusual circumstance, all students in grade three will receive a G for their work in the computer lab. Why? My philosophy is that at this age level they are all giving it their best shot, trying hard, and really want to succeed. They are enthusiastic, ready to learn and to take on new challenges. And in my opinion that is a "good" thing. There are many new skills that will be tackled, from keyboarding, to cut/copy/paste, to saving to a network location, to blogging, to researching information. Some will grasp it more quickly than others, and some will need a little extra help, but they all will succeed at their own rate. I do not want any student to come away with the idea that he or she is "not good at" technology. I will help them as best I can to see that technology tools can make our work easier, help us to learn more, and also allow us to have fun. Comments are closed.
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