First Grade
First grade students have been studying about hot air balloons after reading the book, The Big Balloon Race. They have enjoyed creating hot air balloons and learning about them.
Students are learning 2-D and 3-D shapes in class and created designs using their shapes. They will also be creating a shape robot using PowerPoint that teaches the how to put shapes together and gaining more skills with PowerPoint.
First Grade students are learning how to create a simple PowerPoint. They have learned the following skills: PowerPoint page layout, changing background colors and textures, changing fonts with color, size and fonts, finding pictures on the Internet, learning right click on a mouse, copying and pasting pictures, changing sizes of pictures, rotating pictures and repositioning pictures. The have created a PowerPoint "All About Me" and learned many new things about their peers.