Monday, May 6, 2019

NJSLA Testing

May 6-17 - 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders will take the NJSLA Math and ELA assessments.
May 22-23 - 5th graders will take the NJSLA-Science assessment.

Technology lessons will resume once testing is complete.

Monday, April 29, 2019

This Week in the Lab - April 29-May 3

Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Choice Lesson - Students will choose between different options from this past school year.  Choices include Crayon Physics, Disney Coaster, and Code.org.

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

This Week in the Lab - April 23-26

Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade - Students will choose between various Code.org activities as well as try Bloxels and Sphero.
4th Grade - Students will plot the places on Google My Maps from the southeast region of their Social Studies books.

Mr. Albert
Mrs. Mayhew
Mrs. Weiland/Mrs. Callahan
Ms. Harlan

Monday, April 8, 2019

This Week in the Lab - April 8-17

6th Grade Space Flight - Students will build and fly rockets in Kerbal Space Program to learn about gravity and orbiting.  Students will then design and build a soda bottle rocket to launch and collect data on height and distance.


Monday, April 1, 2019

This Week in the Lab - April 1-5

3rd Grade Area & Perimeter Minecraft Project - Students will design a house on a paper grid and calculate area for each room.  Students will then build the house using MinecraftEdu and perimeter.

Kindergarten - Students will continue learning about programming by working in their code.org accounts.

1st Grade - Students will build and fly a rocket into space using Kerbal Space Program.

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Monday, March 25, 2019

This Week in the Lab - March 25-29

Kindergarten - Students will practice mouse skills by building a plane using "Simple Planes".

1st Grade - Students will complete their "My School" projects.

2nd Grade - Students will use the engineering design process to build a fly a rocket in "Kerbal Space Program".

3rd Grade - Students will collect weather data, enter into Google Sheets, and graph the relationship between latitude and temperature.

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Monday, March 18, 2019

This Week in the Lab - March 18-22

1st Grade "My School" Project - Students will use Google Slides and Tux Paint to create a presentation about the different aspects of school.  Students will type and edit text, draw and insert their own pictures, as well as search for online pictures to insert.

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Monday, March 11, 2019

This Week in the Lab - March 11-15

2nd Grade Engineering Project - Students will use the engineering design process to create, test, and improve a working racetrack using TrackMania.  Tracks will be scored based on a rubric and students will earn ranks based on their track design.

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Monday, March 4, 2019

This Week in the Lab - March 4-8

Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th - Students will use virtual reality to learn more about various places and topics.

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Discussion
3rd: 21  22  23  24
4th: 16  17  19  20

Monday, February 25, 2019

This Week in the Lab - February 25-March 1

1st Grade - Students will continue to create pictures in Tux Paint for their "My School" project.
2nd Grade - Students will use the Engineering Design Process to build a plane using "Simple Planes".
3rd Grade - Students will begin their "Weather" project by collecting latitudes of various cities using Google Earth.
5th Grade - Students will explore volume concepts using MinecraftEdu.

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