Lutheran Schools Week 2011

Everyone is getting excited about this year's Lutheran Schools Week.  This fun annual celebration will fall on the second week of March.  The ZSJ Book Fair will be held inside the cafeteria throughout the entire week.  The link provides a tenative schedule of the daily activities and information about purchasing your books.  Thank you Mrs. Goebel for hosting the book fair!

Student Animations- 5th & 6th Grade

Bouncing Pig By: The Unknown :)

Score!  By Grant

Go Fish: By Anonymous

Jordan Rampage.  By Christian

Baby Animal Slideshow- 2nd Grade

The Second Graders will begin working on a simple slide show about baby animals.  The students will choose 7 animal species and research what the young of that specie is called.  They will include a picture for each slide.  The students will also be introduced to custom animation and slide transition.

Simple Animations using WMM and Paint- 5th & 6th Grade

The Fifth and Sixth Graders are working on simple animations using Paint and Windows Movie Maker.  So far we have a silly looking monster with eyes that move, a fish that swims across the screen, an explosion, and an optical illusion of squares coming at you.

The video below is a short introduction on the creation of a simple animation using Paint and Windows Movie Maker:

The Water Cycle Movie- 3rd & 4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders will continue learning about the water cycle in computer lab this week. They will use Paint to create a short movie showing evaporation, condensation and precipitation.  The process will include drawing ten + frames, importing the frames to Windows Movie Maker and setting the timeline.  Here is an example of what their work might look like:

Water- 3rd & 4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders will be using one of Scholastic web-sources to help them learn about the water cycle and properties of water. Both activities include a short video and five question online quiz.

Keyboarding- 5th and 6th Grade

One of our Sixth Graders scored a 69 WPM on Free Typing Game!  Mrs. Miller found a cool new WPM testing site: Speed Test

MS Word- 2nd Grade

The Second Graders showed me their Word skills.  They were asked to create a document that includes pictures and words.  They used various formatting and editing tools such as, cut/copy/paste, font, text alignment, and clipart.  The students were given free rein for the topic. 

SIRS Issues Reseacher and Discovery Education Streaming- 5th & 6th Grade

Today the Fifth and Sixth Graders were introduced to Discovery Education Streaming.  I created student accounts, which allows each student to have his/her own user and password to access the website.  The students explored the wide variety of resources and played some of the educational games.  I want the students to become very familiar with the site so that I can create assignments using my teacher account.  This will come in extra handy when I have a substitute teacher in the computer lab.  Ask your Fifth or Sixth Grader how to access the site and take a look for yourself!  The username consists of "zsj[grade #][student's 1st name]" and the password is our regularly used code for all of the student accounts.

Last week the Fifth and Sixth Graders were introduced to SIRS Issues Researcher.  This site requires a username and password. Please refer to the Iowa AEA Online pamphlets for this information.  SIRS provides a safe place to research a wide variety of debatable issues such as abortion, cloning, immigration, teenage pregnancy, etc.