The year is going by so fast!

We have been working on our multimedia skills this year! Students in all grades are using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010.

Grades K-2 are almost finished with their slide show presentation of the alphabet.  

• There is one slide for each letter of the alphabet. Slides include animated graphics, sound files, and original (and sometimes silly) sentences students compose using as many words as possible with the given letter.

• Students continue to practice keyboarding skills using "Read, Write & Type" by The Learning Company.
  
• Students continue to practice basic addition/subtraction using picture math. This is a PowerPoint program with randomly generated flash cards using pictures to help. Summaries are sent home at the end of each trimester.

Grades 3-5 are almost finished with their PowerPoint presentations under the HOW TO theme.

• We worked as a class to create a simple slide show presentation on how to draw a cartoon step by step. After this they will bravely take on the challenge of independently creating their own presentation on how they do a particular task (or their favorite things about school, themselves, their families).

• Students are practicing keyboarding skills. Grades 3-4 use "Adventures in Typing with Timon and Pumbaa" by Disney Interactive. Grade 5 uses "Typing Instructor Deluxe" by Individual Software.
• Students continue to practice basic math operations in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Summaries are sent home at the end of each trimester.
  

  Grades 6-8 are working on a Jeopardy presentation.

• Their presentation includes their own Q&A's for subjects they are currently learning in school. We are almost finished. Students have written their own Q&A's for Spelling, Religion, Math, Science, a research topic of their choice, Social Studies, and Math Word Problems. They were introduce to some programming concepts (Visual Basic programming language makes the template work) and working with macros.

• Students continue practicing their keyboarding skills. Grade 6 uses "Typing Instructor Deluxe" by Individual Software. Grades 7-8 are use "Typing Master Speedskin Edition" by Speedskin LLC.
• Students continue to practice basic math operations in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using integers. Summaries are sent home at the end of each trimester.