Mrs. Breen is looking for working or broken holiday lights for a 4th grade project. If you happen to have some, please send them in with your child and/or you can drop them off at either MHS or WES offices.
Also, it would be lovely to receive tubs of disinfectant, alcohol, or vinegar wipes.
Thank you,
Natalie Breen
nbreen@awrsd.org
GRADE 5
In 5th grade, we have been engineering instrument inventions using recyclable materials. With the help of conductive tape and a device called a Makey Makey, we will be coding our instruments to play musical notes on the website www.scratch.mit.edu
The students have been amazed with each step of this unit. In actuality, this lesson began when the students were in 4th grade, where they learned about circuitry. Back a year ago, they learned about how electricity worked by using small holiday lights and a battery to make series and parallel circuits on cardboard panels. Now fast forward to the present day, where they are using that knowledge to make a conductive instrument and using their coding skills to make our instrument invention run.
The students will be bringing home their creations in a few weeks, so make sure to ask them what they learned.
GRADE 4
In 4th grade, the students have just begun learning the parts of a website. Headers, sidebars, blog posts, footers…? Web designers use a lot of lingo. Don’t worry, it’s not too hard to explain or remember the parts of a website once you understand the basic structure.
In this unit, the students will learn the basic structure of different websites and the philology of why they are designed in such a way. With this knowledge, the students will become better digital learners and web researchers for the future.
GRADE 3
In 3rd grade, we have been learning about computer keyboarding. The students are learning typing skills so they can use the computer like a pro.
We have also just finished our “My Healthy Plate” unit. In this unit the students learned about visual design, shape insertion, theme selection, image selection, resizing, word art, and visual placement. Including, how to create multiple layered graphics and what a healthy plate should look like. Have your student log onto their Google Drive to see their amazing work.
GRADE 2
In 2nd grade, we just finished our digital story sequencing project. During this project the students selected a pass event about either their family or a friend and recreated such an event in a digital format. We also used some important vocabulary words, such as “first”, “then”, and “later”. These projects were sent home last week. Use the printed QR code to view the entire project.
Next, we will be learning about frog’s life cycle, what type of environments frogs live in, and the anatomy and physiology of how frogs live. With this knowledge the students will create a poster and label them as such.
GRADE 1
Over the past month 1st graders have been learning how to log onto our new Chromebooks, navigate through our Classlink applications, and learn how to access different online softwares, such as Wixie and Seesaw.
They have become proficient in so many different skills in such a short amount of time.
Next, we will be starting our trees and seasons unit, where we will learn about the change in seasons and why trees lose their leaves. We will be using the application to create an animation about what we learned.
KINDERGARTEN
Over the past month the kindergarten students have been learning how to log onto our new Chromebooks, navigate through our Classlink applications, and learned how to access different online softwares, such as Wixie and Seesaw.
Our next unit is learning the keyboard and typing skills, so we can work more efficiently and improve our English language skills working on these devices.
