OMG... I forgot to publish this post!! :)

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.