This Week in the Lab 9/30

What is happening in the Elementary Project Lab for the week beginning Monday 9/23?

Kindergarten

• Practice logging on the the computer
• Navigating the GCMS website
• Visiting Toy Theater to practice mouse skills (holding the mouse properly, clicking and dragging).

1st Grade

• Practice logging on to the computer
• Navigating the GCMS website
• Play Keyboarding Zoo on ABCYa to practice keyboarding.
• At this point we are not as concerned with using the correct finger for each letter, the main goal is to make the students more familiar with the location of the different letters on the keyboard.

2nd Grade

• Create a document containing their name in a stylized form (fonts, colors, etc)
• Make a printout of the document

3rd Grade

• Practice typing a sentence
• Learn to use Copy/Paste
• Save the files in their class folder.
• Create a printout of the document

4th Grade

• Continue the project from last week.
• Conduct Google Image searches on geography terms and save an image to their folder
• Insert the imate into a Word Document with an appropriate title

5th Grade

• Continue the project from last week.
• Conduct Google Image searches for pictures of organs in different body systems
• Create a PowerPoint featuring the images and the web addresses of their sources

This Week in the Lab 9/23

What is happening in the Elementary Project Lab for the week beginning Monday 9/23?

Kindergarten

• Practice logging on the the computer
• Navigating the GCMS website
• Visiting Starfall to practice our letter of the week.

1st Grade

• Practice logging on to the computer
• Navigating the GCMS website
• Visiting Spelling City to practice the week's spelling list

2nd Grade

• Introduce Microsoft Word
• Students will practice typing their names
• Save their files in their class folder.

3rd Grade

• Introduce Microsoft Word
• Practice typing a sentence
• Learn to use Copy/Paste
• Save the files in their class folder.

4th Grade

• Conduct Google Image searches on geography terms and save an image to their folder
• Insert the imate into a Word Document with an appropriate title

5th Grade

• Conduct Google Image searches for pictures of organs in different body systems
• Create a PowerPoint featuring the images and the web addresses of their sources

This Week in the Lab 9/9

What is happening in the Elementary Project Lab for the week beginning Monday 9/2?

Map Testing

All grades are completing MAP testing this week and next week so we will not have the usual computer lab classes.  The regular schedule will resume on Monday, September 23.

This Week in the Lab 9/2

What is happening in the Elementary Project Lab for the week beginning Monday 9/2?

Kindergarten

• Continue practice on signing in to the computers
• No materials are necessary

1st Grade

• Practice signing in to Accelerated Reader
• Take the STAR test
• Students should bring their AR folders

2nd Grade

• Sign in to Accelerated Reader, finish the STAR test for those needed
• Sign in to ThinkCentral
• Time permitting, sign in to Sumdog
• Students should bring AR bookmarks

3rd Grade

• Finish STAR tests as needed
• Log in to Think Central
• Log in to Sumdog
• Students should bring assignment books for recording passwords

4th Grade

• Log in to Think Central
• Log in to Sumdog
• Students should bring assignment books for recording passwords

5th Grade

• Log in to Think Central
• Log in to Sumdog
• Setup 5th Grade folders
• Students should bring assignment books for recording passwords

This Week in the Lab 8/26

What is happening in the Elementary Project Lab for the week beginning Monday 8/26?

Kindergarten

• We will go over the seating chart.
• Get introduced to Mr. Willis and his rules for the lab
• Begin practice on signing in to the computers
• No materials are necessary

1st Grade

• We will go over the seating chart.
• Get introduced to Mr. Willis and his rules for the lab
• Begin practice on signing in to the computers
• Introduce Accelerated Reader
• Students should bring their AR folders

2nd Grade

• We will go over the seating chart.
• Get introduced to Mr. Willis and his rules for the lab
• Begin practice on signing in to the computers
• Sign in to Accelerated Reader, take the STAR test if time permits
• Students should bring AR bookmarks

3rd Grade

• We will go over the seating chart.
• Get introduced to Mr. Willis and his rules for the lab
• Begin practice on signing in to the computers
• Sign in to Accelerated Reader, take the STAR test if time permits
• Students should bring assignment books for recording passwords

4th Grade

• We will go over the seating chart.
• Get introduced to Mr. Willis and his rules for the lab
• Begin practice on signing in to the computers
• Sign in to Accelerated Reader, take the STAR test if time permits
• Students should bring assignment books for recording passwords

5th Grade

• We will go over the seating chart.
• Get introduced to Mr. Willis and his rules for the lab
• Begin practice on signing in to the computers
• Sign in to Accelerated Reader, take the STAR test.
• Sign in to ThinkCentral and Sumdog as time permits
• Students should bring assignment books for recording passwords

More of our students have reached the Study Island high score tables!

• Allie Heavilin - 5th in Island Hoppers for Probability with a score of 1304

Study Island is an ISAT prep website used by students all over Illinois. Visit their websiteto learn more.

Discover the Forest

Every year our four sections of 1st grade each take a different habitat to explore.  One habitat is deciduous forests, and the website Discover the Forest proved to be a great way to introduce the topic.  The website has several different games where students identify different plants and animals found in this habitat.  There is a great deal of multimedia content that the students loved.  The best part is that the activities on the website all tie directly to activities students can actually do outside, and there is even a guidebook of things to do in the forest.