This week in the library

This was a week to catch-up.  Most of the classes continued on with the lesson from last week.

Pre-K

Last week we spent more time on the library side and didn't have much time on the computers.  I reviewed the concept of fiction and non-fiction books.  We read How to Share with a Bear by Eric Pinder.  Prior to reading the story we talked about building blanket forts and what kinds of things the students like to do in their forts.  In hind sight it would have been fun to try and recreate a form of blanket fort that we could all fit in to read the story.  I'll have to consider how I could manage that for another time.

Kindergarten

We reviewed the differences between a real field trip and an online field trip.  The students did great remembering the 3 rules of going online.
1. Ask permission.
2. Only talk to people you know.
3. Only go to just right websites.

1st Grade

The students finished their snowman glyphs.  I will be putting them on display in the hallway.  When they were done they had fun with the keyboarding games.

2nd and 3rd Grade

The students had their second and last day doing Hour of Code.  Due to the cold temperature we have a lot of indoor recess.  Living in North Dakota our guideline is if the windchill is -10 degrees we have to stay inside.  I reminded the students that during indoor recess this would be a great time for programming.  On my website, OGElab.weebly.com I have a link to a variety of programming games and websites.

4th Grade

I really wanted to do Hour of Code, but to time my lessons to our calendar I needed to go ahead with my website evaluation lesson.  This week we went over internet vocabulary and the parts of a URL.  We spent time looking at the different domain suffixes and what they can tell us about the website.

5th Grade

We continued on with their projects.  I have several conferences to do.  I like it when presentations are spaced out a little better so I don't have so many students to conference with at once.  However, they do have a better chance to form new groups when they wrap up their projects at the same time.