1st+Grade+2008_2009

=**Typing Assessment & Practice**=

Students will:
 * Week of September 8th, 2008**
 * take a typing assessment at http://www.typingtest.com/default.asp
 * practice identifying letters on the keyboard by using [|Typing Master Bubbles]

Students will:
 * Week of September 15th & 22nd, 2008**
 * practice keyboard skills
 * practice mouse skills
 * practice computer lab routines

=My Family: Using Digital Image Skills (Tux Paint)=
 * Weeks of October 6th, 2008 to November 24th, 2008**

Students will:
 * Lesson 1**
 * learn how to open a new file & save it
 * use the paint and fill bucket tools to draw a picture of themselves

Students will:
 * Lesson 2**
 * view a presentation exhibiting different types of families (nuclear, extended & multi-generational)
 * create a digital image of their family and identify if it is nuclear, extended or multi-generational
 * open a new file, save it, and use the draw, fill bucket and text tools

Children's Progress Assessments (K-2)
 * Week of October 20th, 2008**

Students will:
 * Lesson 3**
 * view a presentation about the roles & jobs of family members
 * create a digital image about one of their roles or jobs in their family
 * open a new file, save it, and use the draw, fill bucket and text tools

Students will:
 * Lesson 4**
 * view a presentation about family customs, traditions or language
 * create a digital image about one of their families customs, traditions or languages
 * open a new file, save it, and use the draw, fill bucket and text tools

Students will:
 * Lesson 5**
 * use PowerPoint to create a slide show about their families
 * insert jpeg images into PowerPoint
 * rename & save their PowerPoint files

Students will:
 * Lesson 6**
 * present their slide shows to the class

=Introduction to Pixie=
 * December 1st to 12th, 2008**

Students will:
 * Lesson 1**
 * open Pixie
 * use the brush, fill and shape tools

Students will:
 * Lesson 2**
 * open Pixie
 * use the brush, fill, shape, sticker and text tools

=Digraphs (Pixie & PowerPoint)=
 * December 15th, 2008 to February 13th, 2009**

Students will:
 * Lesson 1**
 * discuss words that have the digraph "sh" in them
 * create a drawing in Pixie of a word with "sh"
 * use the text to tool to write this word
 * add their name to the image
 * save the image as: (color_sh_room)

Students will:
 * Lesson 2**
 * discuss words that have the digraph "ch" in them
 * create a drawing in Pixie of a word with "ch"
 * use the text to tool to write this word
 * add their name to the image
 * save the image as: (color_ch_room)

Students will:
 * Lesson 3**
 * discuss words that have the digraph "th" in them
 * create a drawing in Pixie of a word with "th"
 * use the text to tool to write this word
 * add their name to the image
 * save the image as: (color_th_room)

Students will:
 * Lesson 4**
 * discuss words that have the digraph "wh" in them
 * create a drawing in Pixie of a word with "wh"
 * use the text to tool to write this word
 * add their name to the image
 * save the image as: (color_wh_room)

Students will:
 * Lesson 5**
 * discuss words that have the digraph "ck" in them
 * create a drawing in Pixie of a word with "ck"
 * use the text to tool to write this word
 * add their name to the image
 * save the image as: (color_ck_room)

Students will:
 * Lesson 6**
 * create a PowerPoint slide show of their digraph images
 * save the slide show as: (color_di_room)

Students will:
 * Lesson 7**
 * present their slide shows to the class

=Children's Progress: Spring Assessments=
 * February 23rd to 27th, 2009**