Best Wishes to everyone for a very happy and healthy New Year!
ART CLASS
Grade 1 to Grade 5 students
Don't forget to bring back those old painting cover shirts.
As we start back in January we will be working on projects to participate
in the annual Archdiocesan Art Contest 2009-2010
Theme: The Year of the Priest
Requested by Justin Cardinal Rigali and
the Office of Catholic Education
KINDERGARTEN: Priests are ministers of Baptism.
GRADE ONE: Priests help build schools to educate children.
GRADE TWO: Saint Peter, our first Pope, leader of the Church.
GRADE THREE: Priests are ministers of the Eucharist.
GRADE FOUR: Symbols of the Priesthood.
GRADE FIVE: Design a vestment for a priest.
GRADE SIX: Priests as Missionaries.
GRADE SEVEN: Priests who are Saints.
GRADE EIGHT: Priests as Chaplains for the Armed Services.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology classes focus on proper computer use and maintenance in the lab,
library laptop cart and at home. Internet safety rules and procedures are
continually emphasized throughout the school year. Students and teachers
participate in real world adventures using classroom Smart Boards as well as
in the computer lab.
Each grade work on activities that integrate with academic subjects taught
in the classroom. Proper keyboarding skills and techniques are taught and
enforced while creating work in a word document, slide show presentation,
spreadsheet, database, Notebook file or searching the Internet.
KINDERGARTEN: the students are learning to type the alphabet and numbers 1 to
20 in a MS Word document. They are also using the Shapes tool in MS Word to
create a star on their for clay Christmas Crèche.
GRADE ONE: used some of their keyboarding skills in Microsoft Word to type and
print a Christmas Wish List.
GRADE TWO: students are reviewing the use of the proper techniques for
keyboarding. We are still focusing on identification and typing
the correct keys on the entire keyboard. They are using the clip art tool to
find pictures relating to Christmas. Then the students will type a descriptive
sentence of Christmas clip art.
GRADE THREE: the students are typing and printing a list with bullets in MS
Word to create a Christmas word list. They have been formatting the
font, size and style. One of their favorite tools is creating a page border.
When the list is finished they will practice copying and pasting it into
Wordle. Check out Wordle for yourself on the Links page.
GRADE FOUR: students are working on an activity to search for a Christmas
attraction in Pennsylvania online. They will type in a MS Word document the
address, hours, directions and phone number along with a hyperlink and photograph.
GRADE FIVE: students are identifying and creating a practical use for
spreadsheets and charts. Each student has been entering data into a workbook
which records a Christmas Gift Budget ... the use of simple formulas such as
addition, subtraction and multiplication and division in a spreadsheet will
incorporated.
GRADE SIX: class activities include:
1. Researching in a group and planning a budget
for Thanksgiving dinner.
2. Recording on a spreadsheet, menu items with
estimated and actual prices for a typical
Thanksgiving dinner.
3. Illustrate the results in a column
graph.
4. In conclusion each student will write/type a short
paragraph describing what they learned through
this activity.
and a Power Point presentation of Christmas around the World
GRADE SEVEN: students are wrapping up the Fast Food Fun Activity -
Nutrition Data - Do you know what you eat? This exercise integrates science,
health, physical education as well as art and technology. The students have
been using a spreadsheets to enter, format, manipulate data, formulas, and
functions. They also created various types of charts to analyze data. As a
concluding activity they will summarize their results by incorporating the
data and charts in a word document. And finally present their
findings on the Smart Board to the class.
The students also worked on another spreadsheet activity to find the True
Cost of those Twelve Days of Christmas.
GRADE EIGHT: the students are finishing their research on a favorite topic -
cell phones.
During this activity they have been researching available local plans for
purchasing a cell phone. Using a spreadsheet to create a comparison
chart that is complete with formulas for calculating total costs.
Students then were asked to identify new and cutting-edge cell phone
technologies, and by writing a brief report listing the pros and cons (both
personal and work related) for having a cell phone handset with those
features. Their completed findings will be presented to the class using the
Smart Board.
The students worked on another spreadsheet activity using the Twelve
Days of Christmas items. Students used a graphing worksheet and a data
cost sheet to compute the cost of all the items received during the Twelve
Days of Christmas.
