3rd-5th Grade Weekly Lessons Plans
3rd Grade:
Week 27 March 15: Warm up- Dance Mat Typing- Stage 3, R and U (with covers)! Assignment: Light Bot work continues. March 14: Introduction to coding with Light bot! Week 26 March 8: Warm up- Words Per Minute activity We will finish the keyboard pre-test today. Assignment: Dance Mat Typing- Stage 2, E and I with keyboard covers. March 7: Change seats and Keyboard Review! Week 25 March 1: Snow Day! February 29: Find the Fonts Activity Week 24 February 23: Internet Review February 22: We will continue to wok on the searching online activity at the welcome to the web site. Week 23 February 15 & 16: Welcome to the web- Getting Started and Searching Online. Week 22 February 8 & 9: Introduction to the world wide web. Week 21 February 2: Keyboarding Round up! Please complete the following activities February 1: Catholic School's Week open house. Week 19 & 20 January 19 & 25: Endangered Animal research begins. We will be using the Kids InfoBits database to look up facts and images about their endangered animal projects. January 18: No School! Week 18 January 12: Snow Day! January 11: We will continue to work on keyword searching. January Fact Monster #2 Week 17: January 4 & 5: The Key to Keyword Searching. This lessons focuses on identifying strategies to increase accuracy in keyword searching using Safe Search Kids search engine. Week 16 December 14 & 15: Please complete the next two stages at Dance Mat Typing. Week 15 December 7 & 8: Christmas Poetry activity! We will be using MS Word to write a 5 senses poem. Week 14 December 1: Shift Key Handout. We are looking at the other functions of the shift key beyond capitalizing a letter. When you finish it, please work on the next stage at Dance Mat Typing. November 30: Keyboard Round up continues. We will work on building accuracy. Week 13 November 24: Keyboarding Round up! Please complete the next stage in Dance Mat Typing. November 23: Whole Class: We will gather data about our class today and enter it into the spreadsheet to create a pictograph. Graphing: Pictographs 4th Grade: Week 27 March 17: March Madness and St. Patrick's Day in class activities to build our research and keyboarding skills. March 15: Finish predicting the weather activity. Typing assignment: With your orange cover, please go to Dance Mat Typing and complete Level 1, stage 2, E and I. Week 26 March 10: Please complete the last stage at the Dance Mat Typing website. It is Level 4, stage 12. When you are finished, you may choose an activity from Abcya! March 8: We will finish the Internet review in class today and work on the predict the weather activity. Week 25 March 3: Internet Pre-test review Activity- Edheads- Predict the weather March 1: Snow Day! Week 24 February 25: Snow Day! February 23: Computer skills pre-test review. Activity- Edheads- Report the weather Week 23 February 16 & 18: Typing, editing and finalizing stories in MS Word. When you finish your story, please login to the Tynker website and work on any lessons that are still unfinished. Week 22 February 9: This is the last day to finish the state research for the posters that the students will be completing in their classroom. Early finishers will be working on a Google Maps assignment. Week 21 February 2 & 4: State Research- We will begin using a variety of online resources to find information about a different state to create our state posters. Week 20 January 26 & 28: Keyword Searching! Week 19 January 19 & 21: Tynker Lessons: 3-6 Week 18 January 14: The 4th graders are continuing to work in Tynker. They are doing a great job learning to code and create! January 12: No school-snow day! Week 17 January 5 & 7: Learning to Code with Tynker. Week 16 December 15 & 17: We will continue to present our "Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader?" projects. Week 15 December 10: We will finish and present our "Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader?" presentations today. December 8: No Class! We will be attending Mass. Week 13 & 14 November 23-30 We started our research for "Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader?" projects. Students are researching and writing questions to challenge their classmates. They will create slide shows of their questions to present in class. 5th Grade: Week 27 March 17: Introduction to Scratch! Assignment: Animal Pong Game Week 26 March 10: Continue working on the classic maze, artist or mine craft coding projects. Your sign-in information is on the shelf in the back of the classroom. Remember to type in the address on your sign-in paper to get to the correct website. March 8: Please continue to sign-in and work on your coding projects. Week 25 March 3: Coding introduction at code.org! March 1: Snow Day! Week 24 February 23: We will finish our graphs and formulas today from Thursday's class about the Silver Dollar story. Week 23 February 18: Spreadsheets, formulas and the Silver Dollar Story. February 16: 1. Review Google Maps assignment from last week. 2. Typing Club warm lessons- please complete the next 5 in class today. 3. Earth-Picker activity using Google Maps to solve the mystery location. Week 22 February 9 & 11: "If I Were President..." poem creator assignment. We will use the poem creator found here to think about what each student would do if he/she were President. We will use Google Docs to create the assignment. Week 21 February 4: We will finish our animated hearts project class in today! February 2: Bowling fun for Catholic School's week. Week 20 January 28: High Tech Hearts! We are creating Valentine's hearts in MS PowerPoint and converting them into an animated gifs at Gifmaker. January 26: Online searching- The Key to Keywords Week 19 January 19 & 21: STEM Research! Week 18 January 14: Digital Passport-Cyberbullying activity. This is the last one in the Digital passport classroom! January 12: No school-snow day! Week 17 January 5 & 7: Digital Passport: Sharing information online. We will focus on what is appropriate types of information to share and complete the next activity. If you finish early, please continue to work in Typing club. Week 16 December 14 & 17: Digital Passport- Creative Credit - Mix and Mash Module. Week 15 December 8 & 10: Keyword Searching- We are working today on using Google to do a keyword search. The students will identify the keywords from the topic and locate a reliable website to use for their research. Week 14 December 1: Keyword Searching! Students will login to the Digital Dashboard website to work on an interactive lesson about forming keywords when using a search engine. Week 13 November 24: Keyboard Triathlon- #6-#9. |