October 4 – October 8

Remember, no school this Friday for a teacher inservice day. Hope you have a great long weekend!

Media Literacy

Over the past week, students have begun working on their keyboarding skills. For 4th and 5th-grade students, we have used the program Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Since they have already learned to correct posture and fingering, the program allows them to review their skills and increase their accuracy and speed. Third-grade students have been working on worksheets from the Herzog keyboarding program, which takes them through the alphabet from A-Z. After they have learned the fingering for all of the letters, they too will be working with Mavis Beacon.

Students will also be in the library this week to work on their book-finding skills. After reviewing where everything is found in the library, students were given a scavenger hunt to see if they could find the various resources around the room. Soon students will be working on research in the library and computer lab, so they will be well-prepared to find the resources they need.

P.E.

Over the past week, students have begun a unit on football, which we will be completing this week. We have focused on passing and receiving skills, passing between partners and small groups. This week they are working up to team-based games, finishing up this week with a version of touch football called Ultimate Football.
Classes that finish the football unit will be working together to finish the Scrabble relay, where teams work to build a word, running for 1 letter at a time for their team.