Order Scholastic Computer Programs Here! Just like the Scholastic Book Club earns books for your child's classroom, the Clicks! Software Club earns free software and technology for the computer lab at MOT. Now they have made it easier to order than ever. You can now place your Scholastic Software Club orders online privately, 24/7, and pay them online directly, rather than sending a check into school. Your items will be shipped to the school, just like the book club. It is a great way to support MOT! If you want me to hold them for you (for birthdays, etc.) just drop me an email and I will help keep it a surprise!! After you click on the link above, enter our user name - mrshassig, and our password - 4mot. Happy Ordering and, as always, thanks for your support!
Key boarding skill practice This is one of the programs your children have tried. Not a big hit. See what you think!
African Thumb Piano Try your hand (or thumb, actually) at the African thumb piano. It is fun! We did “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Do a Deer”, but don’t be intimidated by our talents – we are Mustangs, after all!
Happy New Year!! We are off to a great 2008 in the lower school lab. We just acquired some great new software and are really enjoying it. It is the newest version of Kid Pix and we are having a lot of fun with it. Keep your eyes open for some really great stuff in your child’s back pack coming home soon!
The lower lab has been lending a hand to our traveling Mustangs in the lower school. We have been continent hopping and visiting Africa, Antarctica, and China. We made African masks and listened to traditional music. I don’t like to brag, but I figured out how to play “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on the African thumb piano and record it online. Your children were duly impressed. We went on a website that could print out our names in Chinese - can you believe this website had five spellings for Emily and Chinese characters for each one!
We have gone on a website called BrainPop. By browsing on this carefully screened site (with my supervision of course) the students were able to research and take quizzes on subjects ranging from magnets and electricity, to The Revolutionary War and finally the great leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a great chance to support what is going on in their classrooms, and expand upon it. I think the students really enjoyed it.
The older students are just about done with their PowerPoint presentations and will be presenting them for one another in class very soon. I am so impressed with the skills they have and I am sure you are all very proud. I have to say that I have learned a thing or two from them while doing this project together. I am a firm believer that I learn so much more than I teach every day here at MOT.
More things to look forward to this month…
…we are on a quest for new keyboarding software and the students are actively participating in the evaluation of several programs. The students are filling out surveys and really learning the difference between what is fun, what may not be fun but is educationally valuable and what can sometimes be both. Ask them about what they have tried, liked and NOT liked. We will either find a new one or really appreciate the one we have. It’s a win win situation as far as I can tell.
…we will be collaborating with Senora in Spanish class, working on Mi Catalogo de Ropa. Ask your child what that means in English.
…we will continue our virtual globetrotting and learning about Chinese New Year and the Chinese Zodiac. This is the year of the Rat, by the way, the first in the twelve year cycle, and it starts on February 7th, 2008. Gung Hay Fat Choy!! (Happy Chinese New Year!)
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