Mid-Year Typing Successes

All 3-6 graders take a mid-year typing test to see how their typing speed has progressed through the year. Below are the top typist for the individual grades.
For parents that are not familiar with the Typing Pal program, there is a page on this Blog that gives you more information.... or ask your student to show you.

Hour of Code Tech at FCE

Sixth Grade created Google Doodles for the Hour of Code Event.  Below is a sample of one of the Doodles

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Primary grades worked on some unplugged activities to help understand how to program the BeeBots. They practiced being robots and programers. After learning how to program their partner, they worked on programing the BeeBots around the community map.

Intermediate grades worked on solving the Hour of Code puzzles on code.org, and creating projects in Scratch. We did a couple of unplugged activities to help understand the designing of exact directions and learning to fix problems that arise.

This unit uses a lot of collaboration and perseverance!

Tina's Class - Google Expedition Field Trip

Tina Petrick's class celebrated their classroom success by going on a virtual field trip. They explored different creatures of the ocean using Google Expedition viewfinders.  It was so much fun to listen and watch the excitement as they discovered where the different sharks were hiding.

Week of December 4th in Tech

First grade has been working hard to create PuppetPal videos using the beginning, middle and end story elements.  We celebrated all story videos with "popcorn and a movie"

A sample of one of the PuppetPal Stories:

Sixth Grade kicked off Hour of Code working through an unplugged activity - Creating an algorithm on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Learning how important each direction is to the success of a sandwich.

This Week in Tech

3rd Graders are using Google Earth to research different locations in the countries they are studying with their Expedition.

6th Grade participated in a "Breakout" to show off their Digital Citizenship skills. They had to solve different puzzles to unlock the different locks on the box - all in 35 minutes!

Tech Club Exploring

Morning Tech Club used Google Expeditions to explore some virtual field trips. While others of us worked on programming Dash And Dot to play the xylophone. 

Fourth Grade’s Virtual Field Trip

Today 4th Grade experienced a virtual field trip to The Arctic to explore Polar Bears and their Ecosystem.  They took notes and shared the excitement of exploring the Arctic, and viewing the Polar Bears.