This week's rotation schedule includes grades K - 2.

Enrichment - 1st Grade

News Crew - Staff Meeting

Tuesday - Ms. M. White and Ms. Catlett

Enrichment - Kindergarten and Fifth Grade

Wednesday - Ms. O'Neal, Ms. Duke, & Ms. King

Enrichment - Third Grade

Thursday - Ms. Roberson & Ms. Love

Enrichment - Second Grade

Friday - Ms. Tredway,
Ms. Plummer, & Ms. Saracini

Enrichment - Fourth Grade

Publications and Yearbook Staffs

This is Week Thirty - One

Description of the Lesson:  The students will be working with a program called Microsoft Front Page this week.  They will be working with pre-designed templates to create their own personal web page.  The web page will be linked to their classroom teachers "Student Page."

    Once the students have completed their web page, they will have time to explore and enjoy educational games found within the web site Gamequarium.com.  This site has a wide variety of educational games from varied curricular areas.  They will get to the web site by clicking below:

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They will visit this site and practice with:  ABC, 123, Colors, Shapes, Time, or Money.  These activities are set up for Pre-K through grades 2.

Materials:  The students will be working with the software program, Microsoft Front Page.

Skills Covered will include:

• Launch the program we will be using for class today

• Maximize the screen

• Edit a Web Page Template

• Save their Web Page

• Export their Web Page to a Disk

• Exit a program

Gamequarium.com will work with the following skills:

• ABC Reviews

• Number Reviews

• Colors

• Shapes

• Time

• Money

Kindergarten Enrichment:  Students will work with the Kidspiration Program to complete a science activity titled, "What Lives Here."  They will use the activity template and place pictures that represent what you might find living in the four sample locations.  The locations include the desert, forest, wetland, and farm.

First Grade Enrichment:  Students will work with the Kidspiration Program to complete an activity titled, "What do they mean?"  The students will match graphics with the written signs.

Second  - Third Grade Enrichment:  The students will be working with Typing Master to practice their touch typing skills.  Once the typing lessons are completed, the students will have time to explore the web site Funisland.com.  They may choose from a number of educational games on the site for skills review and practice.

Fourth Grade Enrichment:  The students will be working on their electronic portfolio projects.  They will work on the title and main menu page of their portfolio.  We will also look at scanning documents to a disk for adding to their portfolios.

Fifth Grade Enrichment:  The students will be working on a report for a topic they are currently studying in their regular classroom.  They will need to type their report.  The report will then be used to create a PowerPoint Presentation for the topic of their report.

News Crew Staff Meeting:  They will not meet today because of the Staff Planning Meeting.

  Newspaper Staff Meeting:  Students will be discussing the assignments they have completed.

• Students will practice the role of Publisher and determine which department would be assigned a list of tasks.

• Students will discuss which department would be assigned the sample stories.

• Students will select the stories to feature on the front page of a newspaper.

• Students will determine if examples are facts for news or opinions for an editorial.

• Students will discuss ideas for a feature story on people, places, foods, and miscellaneous articles.

• Students will discuss how a newspaper assigns sports reporters to a "beat."

• Students will use a sample entertainment section from the newspaper to answer discussion questions.

Students will turn in their assignments!

Yearbook Staff Meeting:  The staff will not meet this week.