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Welcome to my technology page where you can find out what your child has been up to in technology class.

__First Quarter: __

Our 3rd and 5th graders have been learning about computer parts including input and output devices. We have also covered what "www" stands for and how to navigate the internet. This is becoming increasingly important as our learners receive a majority of information from the online world. Futhermore, our students spent a class going over internet safety. Check out this link to see the game they played to reinforce being safe on the net. Our kids have a deeper appreciation for keeping private information private. [|Internet Safety]
 * Fourth and Fifth Grade Students will use multimedia and student friendly research websites to research a topic [|www.glogster.com], [|www.picsearch.com], www.askforkids.com

__2nd Quarter: __
 * Third Grade Students used [|www.kidwings.com] to deepen their understanding of animal behavior.
 * **K-2nd Grade students are using Kidpix to create pages about main idea and alphabet books.**
 * Kindergarten students focused on counting, patterns, and adding games through thinkfinity resources and online games. Check out the kindergarten to look at the links we have used this quarter.
 * First Grade students created holiday pages using kidspiration and kidpix about veterans day and holidays around the world. Students also practiced their typing skills with dance matt typing (found on the second grade link).
 * Second Grade students took a virtual field trip around the Mayflower, created holiday pages using kidpix, researched holidays around the world (check second grade page for link), and practice typing skills on dance matt typing.
 * Third Grade students took a virtual field trip around the Mayflower, used thinkfinity resources to understand the human body, (check third grade page for link), practiced using angles, deepened their understanding of the lunar cycles, and practiced their typing skills.
 * Fourth Grade created online glogs about North Carolina statehood, researched their animal using the sources on their fourth grade page, used a word document to type, edit, save their research paper, and used [|www.wordle.net] to create word clouds.
 * Fifth Grade created online glogs about the scientific method, used [|www.wordle.net] to create word clouds, viewed online videos for research, used their fifth grade wikisite for research, practiced typing skills, used word docs to write a report and collect information. Students will also be creating an online voki to report on Newton's Law of Motion at [|www.voki.com]