3rd-5th+Grade+Team

Hi 3rd-5th Grade Teachers! Please talk with your team partner regarding laptops and laptop use with sending home. Also, please talk with them regarding ideas you have with taking them home. Homework Assignments, not curriculum specific, but things they could do for homework. Please post your responses below. Thank you!

3rd Grade -

__**Ideas for using Laptops*__*


 * Listen to or read the anthology on the interactive CD
 * Check out a book and podcast themselves reading
 * Type spelling words in Word and make sentences
 * Create an "All about Me" Keynote
 * Write story problems for math
 * Math Math Fact Keynote
 * Create a Comic Page with Comic Life
 * Create a writing piece with Word using Step Up to Writing Guidelines
 * Create a song with Garage Band

__Laptops Going Home__ We are thinking about sending home computers Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. This would eliminate confusion for teachers, students and parents with the no school Fridays.

4th Grade - -- Goal driven GarageBand reading (podcasting) -- Independent writing including drafts, editing and skills practice -- Inspiration activities focused on the target skills in core reading (sequence of events, character maps, etc.) -- Keynote activities in math emphasizing problem solving skills -- Keynote activities in math with creation of flash cards for multiplication facts to 10 and division facts.

-For the sake of consistency, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday make sense for taking computers home. We also have charging concerns. Perhaps we can discuss this at an upcoming team meeting - Jamie

5th Grade - "Ideas for using Laptops"--

--Read into garageband and have parents listen (bring back signed sheet) --Do their spelling homework on Word (sentences, alphabetical order) --Using Word--complete a journal prompt writing assignment --Using Word-complete a writing assignment we have started in class. --Check out the 1 minute readers from the library and chart their results. --Complete ongoing projects (Keynote, Pages, etc.) that we are working on in class.

Laptops Going Home-- We agree with 3rd grade to do 3 nights per week (Mon-Wed)

Other Tech comments-- --We would like our kids to take home their chargers each night, but in order to do this Nancy will need a new cow or have a new and "improved" portable station set up in her classroom. Right now, her cow will not allow her kids to take or plug in their chargers easily. --Nancy is still in need of 3 more laptop sleeves. If anyone has any extras could you please get them to her ASAP.