Monday, November 21, 2011

Kindergarten Sites

Here are the websites I shared with the Kindergarten class.  They had fun with the sites and I hope you have time to check them out at home!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Sites

Thanksgiving Websites

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I shared these Thanksgiving sites in the computer lab this week.  If you have time during the break you might want to check them out with your family!

I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving break!  I am so thankful to be a part of USD 320 and working with all your children.  They bring a smile to my face everyday and it's a joy to get to work with them! 

Monday, November 7, 2011

2nd Grade - Week of October 31

Our typing warm up this week was great practice in upper and lower case letters. Aa Bb Cc and continuing on to letter Zz. This would be a great activity to do on your home computer. I typically devote 5-8 minutes for typing warm up. I usually play some children's music while they type. It's a pretty fun time to begin class!

I took the first graders to Super Hyper Spider Helper to practice typing skills. At this level, we are mostly concerned with using the left hand to type letters on the left hand side of the keyboard and right hand typing the letters on the right hand side. This is a fun site to practice keyboarding with letters so please bookmark this site on your home computers.

First Grade - Week of October 31

We worked on ABC order in the first grade classes this week by going to this website.

This website works on dolch site words. The site says a dolch site word and then the student clicks on the word. The site starts with preprimer words and works up five levels to 3rd grade site words. There are also options for nouns and mixing all words. This is a great site to review and practice those high frequency words.

Kindergarten - Week of October 31

This week we spent time practicing letters by typing our name in word. If you have a computer, it's good practice to have them type their first and last names in word. I took them to a website that practiced upper and lower case letters.
Leo's Matching Letters
Another website that is put out by PBS is Calliou. This is an interactive website that has a lot of games and activities geared to their age level. The kindergarteners loved this site, be sure to visit the site at home!