Sycamore Ridge ESC Events

Sycamore Ridge Band
Thursday Dec. 15, 6:30 pm-Beginning and Advanced Band Winter Concert in the MUR

Current Learning in the Technology Lab
Kindergarten- Mouse control, Pixie for drawing and typing names, using razkids.com for reading practice.
First Grade- Using Pixie for creating student passports, drawings of plants with labels, and razkids.com for reading practice.
Other Primary Web sites used: www.starfall.com, McMillan-McGraw Hill Math, Dance Mat Typing.
Second Grade- Using Pixie to create booklets on the seed and plant cycle, writing sentences and illustrating the booklets.
Third Grade- Keyboarding, using Pixie to create images of landforms. Soon to be beginning Kumeyaay PowerPoints.
Fourth Grade- Keyboarding, using Frames to create animations of solving a math problem, using PowerPoint to create interactive quizzes about Interdependence.
Fifth Grade- Keyboarding, using Frames to create animations of Cellular Respiration, animated to student created song lyrics, using Prezi.com to create presentations about Regions.
Sixth Grade- Using Frames to create animations of Plate Tectonics, Sea Floor Spreading, etc, using Google Earth to learn about Topographic Maps.
Other Upper Grade activities include using Google Apps for Education to write, edit, share, collaborate, create spreadsheets, documents, and presentations.