Mrs. Weiland K-12 Computers

I first want to say I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s! I hope everyone safely travels to their destinations.
The elementary grades will be finishing up our Publisher Christmas cards/posters and we will work on some Christmas online games. These games can be found on their grade level websites. The 7th graders will be finishing “promoting our school” assignment and taking a quiz on Publisher. The 8th graders will be researching and creating a brochure of a theme park and taking a quiz on Publisher. The 9th graders will be working on computer hardware and working on a few assignments in Publisher.

Mrs. Smith gets a golden star from me for her K-12 music concert! Way to go Mrs. Smith and the students!
In Kindergarten we continue to work on parts of a computer and home row keys. We will be working on a word document. The 2nd-6th graders are working in Publisher and their projects are producing a Christmas card or poster to a loved one. The 7th & 8th graders are working on Christmas cards to the elderly and to a loved one. The 8th graders will be creating a brochure on Theme Park attractions and the 7th graders will be working on a card that promotes our school. The 9th graders are finishing up on databases and we will be working on powerpoints and publisher.

St. Mary’s Football team did a job well done throughout their season and into state finals. Way to go!
Kindergarten will be working with lower keys on the keyboard and some fun Thanksgiving websites. 1st Grade will be finishing up their 5 senses document by adding clip art pictures. 2nd Grade will be working on “Feed the Hungry Poem”. 3rd Grade will be working on Lego avatars. 4th Grade will be creating animals by shapes only using the Microsoft Paint program. 5th Grade will be finishing our internet safety unit by creating a comic strip that gives steps in staying away from online predators. 6th Grade will be using Microsoft Powerpoint to create a slide show of information they have learned through-out our internet safety unit. 7th Grade will be working on a word document and creating page and section breaks. 8th Grade will be working on their interviews and developing a photostory project of computer technology changes over the years. 9th Grade will be creating charts and diagrams using Microsoft Excel.

Hello Everyone!
This week in computer class the Kindergarten will be working on their home row keys in keyboarding. The 1st and 2nd grade will be working on clip art techniques and some keyboarding skills. The 3rd-6th grade classes will be working on internet safety discussing online predators, viruses, and e-mail safety tips. The 7th graders will be working on creating columns and tabs. The 8th graders will be finishing up their “How do computers impact society” projects and also presenting them. The 9th graders will be taking their Chapter 5 test and working on formatting a spreadsheet. I hope everyone has a wonderful week! God Bless

Way to go St. Mary’s Football team we are so very proud! Good luck on Saturday! Kindergarten we have been working on using our mouse through some websites. 1st Grade we will be opening a saved document, adding and resizing clip art. 2nd Grade we will be working on opening a saved file, renaming a file, adding and resizing clip art and keyboarding skills. The 3rd-6th Graders will be working on internet safety lessons discussing physical community versus cyber community and how to be safe in both. The 7th Graders will be discussing networking. The 8th Graders will be working on how computers impact society today. The 9th Graders will be working on spreadsheets and the various tools using Microsoft Excel.

I can’t believe we have completed 1/4 of the school year! Wow! I also missed two days last week because my children were sick, so remember to wash those hands. In Kindergarten we worked on some online coloring websites, they had lots of fun. In 1st and 2nd grade we will be talking about Internet Safety. Parents, a good online resource for internet safety is netsmartz.org In 3rd grade we will be creating wild avatars and writing about their new wild self. We will not have school on Friday so I will be missing the 4th graders. In 5th grade we will be completeing our inuit domes and later posting them on my webpage and we will also be discussing Internet Safety. The 6th graders will not meet this week because of Teacher In-Service. The 7th graders will be discussing networking while the 8th graders will be working on the impact the society has on technology. The 9th graders will be working in Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets. God Bless

Thank you to those who have donated software, computers, and their time to making our K-12 Computer Lab a successful part of our school!

I hope the students and teachers enjoyed their 3-day weekend!  I thought it was wonderful to be with my family an extra day at home!

The Kindergaten will not be meeting this week because of the holiday.  The 1st Grade will be reviewing paint tools and creating a fall paint picture.  The 2nd Grade will be building avatars of themselves.  They had so much fun building an avatar of someone else last week!  The 3rd Grade will not be meeting this week because of the holiday.  The 4th Grade will be working on a word assignment with a substitute as I will be gone for the entire day.  The 5th Grade will not be meeting this week.  The 6th Grade will be working on an internet scavenger hunt!  The 7th and 8th Grade will be working on avatars and creating outlines.  The 9th Grade will be working on Microsoft Word and comic strips for our blogging challenge.

It was really nice seeing parents at the parent/teacher conference, as always any questions and concerns are always welcomed.

Kindergarten will continue to work on logging in and logging off along with learning their homerow keys on the keyboard.  1st Grade will be working on Microsoft Paint tools.  2nd Grade will be working on avatars using “My Avatar Editor” and then pasting the picture onto their newspaper report.  The 3rd, 4th, and 6th graders will be working on internet typing games.  The 5th Graders will be using Google Sketchup to create Inuit domes.  They learned about the Inuit tribe in their classroom.  The 7th & 8th graders will be taking a quiz over some features of Microsoft Word 2007 and we will also continue to work on creating outlines.  The 9th graders are will be finishing up our Chapter 3 covering features of Microsoft Word 2007, continue to work on the blogging challenge, and Officer Osmer will be coming in to talk about internet safety, social networking, and textine.

Hello,
I will be having my 9th Grade Students introduce themselves to the Blog Challenge! This is our first time in the Blog challenge, so it will be a little rough at first.

- Hi my name is Lexie! I love sports- especially basketball and track. My favorite artists are Taylor Swift and Gloriana. I love food, especially Subway and Dairy Queen! I love my school and my friends.

- Hey my name is Mikayla. My favorite sports are track and volleyball. I love listening to music like Gloriana, Taylor Swift, and many others. I love to hang out with my friends and going to eat or to get ice cream! School is pretty fun this year, and my friends are the best!

-Howdy, my name is Amanda. I love listening to music like country and alternitive rock. My favorite band is the Jonas Brothers and my favorite song by them is “Inseparable”. My favorite sport is softball.

-Hey my name is Danielle. My favorite sport is volleyball. I like to listen to music like Chris Daughtry, Paramore & many more. I love to hang out with friends and go walk around town or do something fun.

-Hi my name is Annastasia. My favorite sport is softball. My favorite band is Paramore & 3oh3. I love hanging out with my friends and walking or driving around town. I also like to hunt with my dad.

-My name is Kyle. I like food. I play some sports and go to school.

-My name is Alec I like to play football and I like cars. My favorite car is a prius because i like th earth I also like to play video games.

-Hello my name is Peter and I enjoy listening to rock. my favorite activity is golf and i love to text my friends. 

-Hey, my name is Theresa. Music is my life; I listen mostly to hard/alt/punk rock, screamo, and metal. I love food, but I’m a vegetarian. I also read, write, and draw a lot.

Hey, my name is Rachel. I love country music, but also like some pop/rock songs. I also love to read, right n0w my favorite book is The Named, the first of the Time Guardian Trilogy. I don’t like drawing but I love to color geometric coloring sheets.

Hi, my name is Tori. I love to draw and paint. I also enjoy reading, my favorite book right now is The Named (Rachel and I both read it). But my favorite book series is The Shadow Children Series. I love to listen to country and rock music, but I also like ohter kinds of music. Volleyball is my favorite sport, aside from table tennis

Hi my name is Spencer. I enjoy Basketball, baseball, football, golf, and ping pong. My favorite food is Qdoba and Hu Hot it is the bomb. I could eat those two things and Mcdonalds any day.

Hi my name is James. I like to play all sports, but my favorite is golf. I like to text people. My favorite subject in school would be math. My favorite food is tacos. My favorite tv show is everybody hates chris. I could watch that all day. Its hilarious.