This week, in addition to typing practice, 2nd-5th graders continued to discuss internet safety. We wrapped it all up by watching the BrainPOP video, "Online Safety". It's a great one to watch and review with your kids at home.
In 1st grade, we've been practicing typing as well, but have also been making use of the online components to the Treasures (Language Arts) and Everyday Math curricula. Everyday Math has some really fun two-player math games!
The kindergarten teachers have been interested in having students work on "beginning sounds" and "end sounds", so this week students have explored the Letter Muncher, Word Magic and Reading Raven apps. Word Magic is especially useful with regards to the skills that the K teachers wanted to target, because you can go into the settings and tell it to focus on "beginning sounds", "middle sounds" or "end sounds". I anticipate using all three apps throughout the year to help the students practice their reading skills.