SMOY HAS A NEW WEBSITE!

Don't forget to check out SMOY's new website!
www.smoyschool.com

Think you can navigate SMOY's website?  Try this SCAVENGER HUNT!
Can you find the following items?

• What are the hours of the school nurse?
• What is the first picture that shows up on the SMOY Parish website?
• What is the color of your teacher's shirt?
• How many teachers are there here at SMOY?
• Where did our Guidance Counselor graduate from college?
• What is the background of the teacher blog?
• What is one of Miss Cooper's favorite restaurants?
• BONUS QUESTION:  On what day did Miss Wilmes post about "avatar" as our Word of the Week?

Words of the Week: Webpage or Website?

Think you know the difference between a webpage and a website?

A website is a group of pages on the internet.  A website is made up of several webpages.  A webpage is a specific page online that is located within a website.

Still stuck?  For example, Target.com offers tons of information about all the cool products they sell.  If you are looking for a specific game for your Wii, you would go to the Electronics webpage.  Target.com is the website, whereas the Electronic section is one of it's webpages.

Think you're a pro?  See if you can come up with another example and let Miss Wilmes know!

Week 14: Webpage or Website?

We did several things in computer this week! 

SMOY HAS A NEW WEBSITE!  

This week in computer, the students have the opportunity to visit SMOY's new website.  We visited their class webpage, as well as navigated around the site.  Feel free to check out this website at home!  Don't forget to check their classroom webpages at least twice a week for important announcements from their teachers.

LESSON:

INTRODUCTION:

What is the difference between a website and a webpage?  Students will navigate around SMOY's new website and visit their class webpages.

THINK YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WEBPAGE & A WEBSITE?  Ask your student to explain this week's Words of the Week!

KEYBOARDING SKILLS:
Over the next month, we will begin working on Keyboarding Skills.  With only a limited amount of time to work on this in the lab, students will need to practice at home.  Please visit my webpage on the SMOY's new website for some KEYBOARDING resources!  These include games, lessons, and even speed tests.  We will be working on keyboarding skills until Christmas break, as well as maybe into January.  Please encourage your student to work on their typing skills as much as they can, as this skill will need to be perfected on their own time.

Check out Miss Wilmes' Keyboarding Resources Folder Online:  CLICK HERE

STAR READING TEST: 

Each student in Grades 1-8 took the STAR Reader test at the beginning of the school year to assess their reading skills.  This week, each student took the test again to see if they have approved.  Check with their English teacher to receive your child's individual reading level.  Each teacher will get their students' results after their students have finished their time in the lab this week. 

EXTENSION: 
DISCUSSION: is a blog a a webpage or a website?

PRACTICE ONLINE:  Check out SMOY’s website at home!  See if you can find all of your teacher’s pages.  Don’t forget to check out the blog at least once a week. 

Lesson 12: FREE WEEK!

Because of all of your student's hard work over the trimester, I have given the students an opportunity to use their computer time to explore the computers.  When given time to explore, students often learn things on their own, as they are putting into practice what they have learned in the classroom and their time away from class.  

EXTENSION:

All 3rd - 8th graders just turned in their Invitation Project to show what they have learned in Microsoft Word.  Have some free time over Thanksgiving?  See if you can create your own invitation from scratch.  See below for an example!  Don't forget that this particular invitation will be folded into fours to have a front, back, and an inside.

K-2: Thanksgiving Computer Projects

Kindergarten through Second Grade has been working on drawing what they are thankful for to prepare us for Thanksgiving season.  Don't forget to check out the PowerPoints each grade has created!  Turn up your sound and enjoy seeing what your children are thankful for this year.  ENJOY!

K - 2: THANKSGIVING PROJECTS

Download eBooks & Audiobooks for FREE!

Did you know that the Cincinnati Public Library offers downloadable music, eBooks, and even AudioBooks for free?  All you need is your library card number and pin.  With the Ohio eBook Project, you can even check out books and transfer them to your iPad or Nook!

Check it out here:  Cincinnati Public Library

Lesson 10 & 11: Creating a Template from Scratch

The students have been working on a study through Microsoft Office to learn how to complete basic functions in this program by concentrating on creating invitations.  They have discovered what a template was and how a template could be useful when working on documents created in Microsoft Word. This week, the students will continue to focus on making an invitation using Microsoft Word and finish creating their invitation from scratch.  They will then save this as a template in their classroom folders.

TASKS:  Students will use a template as a guide to create an invitation from scratch.  They will have be able to edit images, rotate images, insert text boxes, and format the page into four quadrants to create a foldable invitation of their choice.  This project will be a final culmination to showcase what they have learned over the past few weeks during their study of Microsoft Word.

MICROSOFT WORD WORKSHOP:

Think you know a lot about Microsoft Word?  Below are the requirements for the invitation your students will turn in as we finish our study on Microsoft Word:

• insert a Wordle they created  
• TASKS: Be able to use the Print Screen button to take a picture of what is on their screen and put into Microsoft Word
• insert an image using PicSearch 
• TASKS:  Import this picture into Microsoft Word / Copy and Paste
• TASK: Be able to search safety for a picture on the internet
• Rotate an image
• Insert WORD ART
• Insert and Edit/Move Clip Art
• TASKS:  Be able to use the Text Wrapping key to make an image “in front of text”
• Change the font and size of the font
• Be able to PRINT the document to the Smoy Lab Printer
• Save and Open a project on the SMOY network