Mrs. Kahlweiss Technology Teacher

Dear Parents and Students:

We are going to continue with our Excel graphing project with the favorite lunches at Pleasentville Middle School. to learn Excel. Excel is a spreadsheet program and has many functions. We will begin basic understanding in the use of the application. This will involve learning new vocabulary and working on activities lessons within the application. There will be a test on the vocabulary. I have posted the Excel Study Sheet just click on the left side bar that says "Excel Vocabualry Words" (If you no longer have the handout you can print it yourself.)

May 27- Continue Graphing data

June 3- Ultrakey test and Excel vocabulary test.

Left Posted for American Revolution Resources:

Here is the URL: http://www.californiaweekly.com/student%20revolution%20main.htm

What clothing men wore? http://www.history.org/history/clothing/men/mglossary.cfm

What clothing women wore? http://www.history.org/history/clothing/women/index.cfm

Multimedia Biographies: http://www.harcourtschool.com/hss/biographies/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_timeline.html

The students setup the outline of what they need to research for their PowerPoint in class today. We printed out the PPT slides as a handout so they would have a structure for research on their character. Please use books and websites I have provided to help you find information.

This is a reserach project and all work must be cited. Noodletools.com is required for the Work sited Slide.

The 5th grade textbook for Social Studies has a wonderful safe website to use. www.harcourtschool.com/hss

This URL can be found in my Links also.

Keyboarding Homework All Year:

The fifth graders will be responsible for practicing their keyboarding 5 days a week for 10 minutes a day. Practicing each day leads to better progress and more improvement in the long run. There will be two UltraKey tests during the second trimester for a grade.

Tips when practicing in UltraKey: Always go to complete the Lessons first and then the Skill Checks. When your in the Skill Checks make sure you work through 1paragraph, 2 paragraphs, 3 paragraphs and the Entire Passage. If you are not doing well in skill check then go back and repeat the lesson. Your goal is to not look down at your hands but to memorize the proper finger positions. UltraKey shows you the fingers resting on the Home Row and then how the fingers have to reach for the other keys. I gave you the handout with the hands on it and it should be in your computer pocket folder. This paper is to remain in your folder all year so you can always refer to it. Your computer folder is required to be at all your computer class times.

Once a student reaches the grade level goal then a "New Personal Goal" will be issued on that test. The new personal goal is to be reached to earn an "A", this is to keep the students challenged and motivated to grow in their skills. The new personal goals are increased by 3 more words per minute with keeping high accuracy.

5th Grade UltraKey Grading Scale

Goal: 98% Accuracy with 20 Words Per Minute

All of the returning 5th graders have www.noodletools.com accounts from last year. I will setup new accounts for new students. This is a web based software educational subscription program used by the school to teach students how to record their Work Cited for research projects. They are learning how to use the MLA  (Modern Language Association) format which they will need for high school. Please ask your student about their account and have them show you what it does. I will be teaching them again how to cite a book, a website and other resources at school to refresh their minds from last year. This will be used again for projects throughout the year. Each student has their own login and password and are linked to their teachers.

Thanks,

Mrs. Kahlweiss