We are now officially a month in to the school year and we
are starting to fly in the MS Computer classes.
The seventh and eighth grade started the year off by working a “Selfie”
project that had them thinking about what they are excited about and what their
goals are for this school year, and then trying to find a way to depict that in
a selfie. I am very happy with the way
that this project turned out and if you haven’t been able to catch it when you
have been in at school, I plan on showing it again at Parent/Teacher
Conferences the end of this month. It
was a great way for the students to reflect on what amazing opportunities they
have here at Schleswig.
Sixth grade is just finishing up their first spreadsheet
project of the year. We started by
learning how cells have “addresses” to help us stay organized and ending by
learning how to use simple functions such as AutoSum to do the math for us! The students completed the same spreadsheet
in Excel and Google Sheets in order to compare and contrast the two programs.
Fifth grade also did a compare and contrast project using
Microsoft Word and Google Docs. They
created a calendar using the table functions and then added clip art and
important dates to their work. It was an
eye-opening experience for this class to see that you can use a computer for
more than playing Minecraft and checking email.
