February+Lab+Updates

We're waiting for spring and keeping busy in the lab!!

Kindergarten - The students have been continuing to work on their Reading skills with the "Teach Your Monster to Read" website. It is a kindergarten favorite and they are doing a wonderful job!! We viewed a Brain Pop Jr. video on counting to 100 and explored online 100th Day of School activities. They enjoyed online Valentines activities and viewed a Brain Pop Jr. video on George Washington for President's Day. The kindergarten students also enjoyed exploring "Peep and the Big Wide World" Science activities.

1st Grade - The students viewed a Brain Pop Jr. video on counting to 100 and explored 100th Day of School activities. They enjoyed exploring online Valentines Day activities and have been continuing to work on their Reading skills with the Teach Your Monster to Read 2 website.

2nd Grade - We viewed a Brain Pop Jr. video on Harriet Tubman for Black History Month. They explored interactive websites on hand washing and germs to correspond to their Science lesson. 2nd graders worked on interactive verb activities to correspond to their Language Arts lesson and viewed a Brain Pop Jr. video on Abraham Lincoln to correspond to their Social Studies lesson. Students explored the Dr. Seuss website in honor of his birthday.

3rd Grade - The students viewed a Brain Pop Jr. video on the water cycle and explored interactive websites on the water cycle to correspond to their Science lesson. They are continuing to practice their keyboarding with the Dance Mat Typing website. I am seeing improvement each week! The 3rd graders viewed a Brain Pop Jr. video on Rosa Parks for Black History Month and synonyms to correspond to their Language Arts lesson. They practiced multiplication and division facts with interactive math websites.

4th Grade - The students viewed a Brain Pop video on Jackie Robinson for Black History Month. They practiced their state capitals and state locations with interactive websites. The 4th graders explored explored interactive geometry activities to correspond to their Math lesson.

5th Grade - We worked on a Word activity to review centering, changing font and color, underlining, bold and italics. We viewed Brain Pop videos on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and explored interactive activities on branches of government and separation of power to correspond to their Social Studies lesson. The students viewed a Brain Pop video on Maya Angelou for Black History Month. The 5th graders practiced fractions with assorted websites to correspond to their Math lesson.

6th Grade - The 6th graders created ThingLinks on the US Presidents. They did a fantastic job! Click here to see their ThingLinks. They explored the Cyber(Smart) website for lessons on cyberbullying, online gaming and sharing selfies.

7th Grade - <span style="color: #141111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The 7th graders took a virtual tour of the Springfield sites and Lincoln Library to prepare for their field trip. We continued the Power Point review on animations and transitions and discuss topics for their project - Andrew Jackson, Trail of Tears, and the Indian Removal Act. We viewed Brain Pop videos on Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to correspond to their Social Studies lesson. The students are finishing up their Power Point projects. They viewed a Brain Pop video on Louis Armstrong for Black History Month and completed an Internet Scavenger Hunt on famous African Americans. The 7th graders explored interactive websites on the Gold Rush to correspond to their Social Studies lesson.

<span style="color: #f01d1d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">8th Grade <span style="color: #141111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> - The students viewed a Brain Pop video on the Harlem Renaissance and completed a Internet Scavenger Hunt on famous African Americans for Black History Month. They completed Word activities on the most common formatting features in Word and setting tabs and margins. We view "The Week in Rap" each week to help us keep up on current events. The viewed a Brain Pop video on WWI and explored interactive WWI websites to correspond to their Social Studies lesson. They also explored the Cantigny website and filled out a worksheet for Social Studies class. They were introduced to the Kahn Academy website and been using it to practice math lessons that correspond to their 8th grade math.