It is Digital Citizenship Week!

October 19-23 is Digital Citizenship Week in LAUSD.

In 1st-5th grades we will be watching and discussing the Common Sense Media video, "Pause and Think Online".

You can watch it here:

Common Sense Media offers lots of good resources for adults trying help kids safely navigate all sorts of media.

BrainPOP also has quite a few good videos that relate to this topic.

For the past couple of weeks in kindergarten, we have been using the laptops.  This is the first time that many of them have been on a computer.  We are learning about opening a web browser, using bookmarks to visit websites, and the basics of using mouse.

A Beautiful Week!

It's been a beautiful week so far at Community.  Such a lovely view outside of the Technology Lab!  :-)

This week, in addition to typing practice...

In 1st grade we played math games in the 1st Grade area of abcya.com.  There are a number of great, FREE, educational games on this site, but many address subject matter that has not yet been covered in the 1st grade classrooms.  This week we tried "100 Number Chart", "Number Grid Fireworks", and several different levels of "Connect the Dots".

2nd and 3rd graders played the spelling and vocabulary games that are a part of the Treasures (Language Arts) online curriculum. They started with activities using words from stories they are reading this week, and then went back to play games using words from stories from previous weeks.

4th and 5th graders discussed responsible email use, school (not private) vs. home (private) email accounts, and cyberbullying.  We also watched BrainPOP's "Cyberbullying" video to reinforce the main ideas.  These guys are at the age where we need to start talking about this stuff.

The Acceptable Use Policy went home in backpacks this week.  Please read and sign it with your child, and return it to school as soon as possible.  The intent of LAUSD's AUP is "to prevent unauthorized access or other unlawful activities by users online, to prevent unauthorized disclosure of or access to sensitive information, and to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act."