Technology

This week students in Grades 2 through 4 have been practising their word processing skills in Microsoft Word. Second Graders practiced changing the insertion point by adding adjectives to a paragraph about Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Third Graders practised their editing skills by adding the punctuation that was missing from a paragraph about Ellen and her friend Penguin, and Fourth Graders learned to drag & drop or cut & paste text by rearranging the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. They were also able to use Microsoft Paint to create an illustration to accompany the text.

Kindergarten students have been getting to grips with the Kid Pix drawing program in readiness for a project they will be starting soon. This week they practiced using the wiggly line, shape drawing  and flood fill tools. Meanwhile First Grade students got their first taste of Word when they used it to type up their spelling words, with most of them also managing to change the color of the text as well. Meanwhile Middle school students got a crash course reminder on how to create a PowerPoint presentation in order to prepare them for the biography project they are working on with Ms. James.