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I only saw my Sunday and Monday classes this week because of the holidays so we used it as Reprieve Week — meaning students could work on any late work that was incomplete from Trimester 1. Those who had finished their work had their choice of school-appropriate learning games and activities.
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Happy American Thanksgiving on Thursday! Trimester 1 Ends This Week.
If you didn’t finish your Friendship or Ouch Story last week, finish it for homework. The web site addresses for the story forms are in Agenda 12 and 13 on the portal or below on the home page.
Don’t know how to find copyright-free images for your projects? Here’s how to do that and save them to your own USB stick (MPG4 Video). Speakers are optional.
First Grade: NETS-S 1: MAKE IT! Use tech to make new things to show what I know. We are continuing in ANIMAPS and SCRIBBLEMAPS — we will make Home Tours around Abu Dhabi. Where will you will visit in Abu on your map tour. Do you know your home address?
Second Grade: NETS-S 1: MAKE IT! Use tech to make new things to show what I know. We continue the Book Trailers Unit this week. By now you should have chosen a book.
Third Grade: NETS 1-MAKE IT! Let’s get back to making our digital stories. We have to practice Story Maps/Mountains and begin to outline our plots/
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Fourth Grade: NETS-S 6 Use it, NETS-S Solve it: Making Surveys in Google Docs and analyzing the results.This means you need a Google Account so I’ll show you how to make one.
Fifth Grade: 9 Elements/NETS Standard 5. Bring Your iPad to class! PRESENTING Projects that we didn’t see last week. Standard 2: Use Different Technologies to Communicate and Work With Others. This will require you to know your Office 365 password and the password for your Google account.
On November 16 and 17 I will be absent because I am attending an Ed Tech Seminar in Dubai.
What’s Happening in Week 12
First Grade: NETS-S 1: MAKE IT! Use tech to make new things to show what I know. We are continuing in ANIMAPS and SCRIBBLEMAPS — we will make Home Tours around Abu Dhabi. Decide this week where you will visit in Abu on your map tour. Do you know your home address?
Second Grade: NETS-S 1: MAKE IT! Use tech to make new things to show what I know. We continue the Book Trailers Unit this week. By now you should have chosen a book.
Third Grade: NETS-S 6 Use it! I can show how technology works: Complete Showbie & Puppet Pals 2 by request from your homeroom teachers, then in 1-2 weeks we’ll be back to NETS 1-MAKE IT!
Fourth Grade: NETS-S 5-Protect it! I can be safe, legal and honest with tech. Let’s correct our Digital Passport Packets together. Begin new unit: Making Surveys in Google Docs and analyzing the results. This means you need a Google Account so I’ll show you how to make one a NEW way.
Fifth Grade: 9 Elements/NETS Standard 5. Bring Your iPad to class! PRESENTING Partner Projects! Then we will start a new unit this week for Standard 2: Use Different Technologies to Communicate and Work With Others. This will require you to know your Office 365 password and we’ll revisit your Google account.
GOOD NEWS ALERT RE: GOOGLE APPS ACCOUNTS: Don’t worry about setting up your own accounts. Mr. Kashan from I.T. and I have come up with a better solution. See me for the user names and passwords! :)
First Grade: NETS-S 1: MAKE IT! Use tech to make new things to show what I know. We are continuing in ScribbleMaps and Animaps — we will make Home Tours.
Second Grade: NETS-S 1: MAKE IT! Use tech to make new things to show what I know. We continue the Book Trailers Unit this week.
Third Grade: NETS-S 6: Intro to Showbie & Puppet Pals 2 by request from your homeroom teachers, then in 2 weeks we’ll be back to NETS 1-MAKE IT! Using Technology to Make a Picture Book. We will make a Plot Plan and Story Map first.
Fourth Grade: NETS-S 5: Collect Digital Passport Packets except for Thursday’s class (they get one more week because their packets were delayed in printing office). Begin new unit: Making Surveys in Google Docs and analyzing the results. This means you need a Google Account so I’ll show you how to make one.
Fifth Grade: Due BY END OF CLASS THIS WEEK — Partner Project: 9 Elements/NETS Standard 5. Bring Your iPad to class! We will start a new unit next week for Standard 2: Use Different Technologies to Communicate and Work With Others. This will require you to know your Office 365 password and your Google account password from last year. We will sort that out together.
(Some of you have not had class ten times yet due to holidays, etc. Feel free to ask your homeroom teacher for a catch-up session during my planning periods.)
You’ll Be Needing Sounds, Videos and Images for Your Projects, so Look at this Copyright-Free Help Packet. Ask me if you have any questions and I’ll be glad to help.
Thank for your patience while I was sick this past week. Isn’t Mrs. Judy an awesome substitute teacher? Hopefully we can schedule some catch-up times for the Wednesday/Thursday classes who have missed due to short weeks, holidays, etc.
Week 8 Agenda (Image is not linked)
We will be concentrating on catching up the classes that have missed days due to holidays, assemblies, early release, etc.
What’s happening this week in IT?
(Sunday is Early Release Schedule and Parent-Teacher Conferences on Thursday, October 22)
First Grade: Bring a small stuffed animal to class, please. We will play Sid’s Safety Game if there is time and the animals will help us.
Second Grade: Assessing Surf Swell Comics About Web Safety/Play Booker’s Computer.
Third Grade: Finish Professor Garfield’s Infinite Learning Lab Quizzes (Part 1,
Cyberbullying/Part 2, Online Safety. HOMEWORK: If you have not finished Cyberbullying and its quiz, catch up at home. Study the Cyberbullying and Online Safety sections of Professor Garfield’s Infinite Learning Lab for a summative assessment.
Fourth Grade: Continue Digital Passport Modules. Do “Cyberbullying- EVOLVE” this week. HOMEWORK: re-play “Twalkers” and “Privacy Share Jumper” modules if you didn’t pass with at least 60%.
Fifth Grade: Team Project: 9 Elements/ISTE Standard 5. Finish research Mini-Lesson about Keywords. HOMEWORK: FIND AT LEAST 3 EXAMPLES ABOUT YOUR TOPIC using what you learned about research. In class we will work on our projects.
What’s happening this week in IT?
(Wednesday and Thursday classes will do this next week due to the holiday.)
First Grade: Episode 2 Finish Hector’s World + Finish Lee/Kim Movie & Song. HOMEWORK: Bring a small stuffed animal next time.
Second Grade: Finish Surf Swell Comics About Web Safety/Play Booker’s Computer. Homework: none.
Third Grade: Finish Professor Garfield’s Infinite Learning Lab Quizzes (Part 1,
Cyberbullying/Part 2, Online Safety. HOMEWORK: If you have not finished Cyberbullying and its quiz, catch up at home.
Fourth Grade: Continue Digital Passport Modules. Do “Privacy Share Jumper” this week. HOMEWORK: re-play “Twalkers” module if you didn’t pass with at least 60%.
Fifth Grade: Team Project: 9 Elements/ISTE Standard 5. Research Mini-Lesson about Keywords. HOMEWORK: FIND AT LEAST 3 EXAMPLES ABOUT YOUR TOPIC using what you learned about research.
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I have to be in Dubai for an Apple Training on Tuesday so be excellent for the guest teacher. :)
AISA Portal Login Tutorial in PDF
(Don’t forget to change your password upon your first login.)
Eid Mubarak! We have class on Sunday and Monday only this week.
Let’s continue on Standard 5: Digital Citizenship.
We spent our IT class time this week on testing all our logins and writing them on an index card for safekeeping. Grade 1 had a simplified version of this.
Grades 3-5 Card Format
Grade 1-2 Card Format
