Signs of Spring

We were so busy in Trimester II. Here are the highlights:

K-4 participated in Hour of Code.

Kindergarten used the following sites to work on their computer skills:

• Daniel Cook
• ABCya Kindergarten

1st Grade

• Introduction Microsoft Word (typing poems, inserting clip art, resizing text)
• Introduction to Kerpoof (adding text boxes, moving objects, printing)
• Introduction to timeline animation/making movies (Kerpoof)
• Green sceen pictures
• Copy/Paste Leprechauns
• Typing Fun
• Building and designing with Legos
• Kidspiration graphic organizer with microphone recordings
• jpg vs gif files - having fun with animated gif pictures

2nd Grade

• Strengthening Copy/Paste skills and text skills
• Changing cells, columns, rows in Microsoft Excel
• Learning PowerPoint
• Wax Museum PowerPoint
• Making movies with Kerpoof
• Green screen pictures
• Using microphones
• Word clouds with Tagxedo

3rd Grade

• Programming Angry Birds
• Programming a Flappy Bird game
• Using iTouch cameras to take pictures of geometry shapes
• Making movies or PowerPoint shows of geometry shapes
• Creating geometric objects (grouping) and posting work to Wallwisher
• Olympic Fact Search
• Logic Game: Red Remover
• Dance Mat Typing
• Using Fotoflexer to edit photos

4th Grade

• Using Tagxedo
• iTouch Brain Labeling
• Excel graphs
• Coding with Tynker
• Using Microphones
• Updating Parish Profile Pages
• Global Blast Flyers (desktop publishing)
• Dinosaur Project (Tagxedo, Inspiration, and Excel)