Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Announcements and Reminders for Wednesday/Thursday, August 30/31, 2017:                            School Pictures will be taken during math classes on Thursday and Friday, August 31 and September 1. Cavetime will begin on Tuesday, September 5.  Scholastic Book Orders:   If you'd like to order Scholastic Books online, and benefit our classroom, go to http://pcool.scholastic.com/parentordering/login.jsp, register, and enter code GKLJW. To order through me without going online, bring me the filled out order form and a check written to Scholastic Book Orders.  I'll be sending in orders on September 15, or sooner if I receive orders totalling $25 or more. Order forms are available on the back counter near the door. Your disclosure document signatures (with the pre-assessment on the back)  are due by today.  You can still hand them in after today, but you will receive less points.  Hand them in to the top wire basket for your class.

Targets for Today: I can more effectively use the Internet to do well in school, and to do research.

Today’s  Agenda: Your disclosure document signatures (with the pre-assessment on the back) are due by today.  You can still hand them in after today, but you will receive less points.  Hand them in to the top wire basket for your class. 1. Brief, quiet, individual reading time. 2. Computer lab 224.  instructions Receive your folder/computer number, and  Receive a packet of information to use as you complete the assignments. Leave your backpacks in the classroom, Take a book to read in case you finish early, and a pencil for notes.  Walk QUIETLY to the lab.  In the lab we will have a quiet, individual working time.  If you need help, ask your teacher or Mrs. Dansie, our computer lab specialist.  Sit down at your assigned computer. Log in to the computer using your active directory login: User name: What comes in your school email BEFORE the @ Password:  The password you set. Open a browser.  Follow the directions on your handout.   Answer the questions on the handout.  Find the information about Lexile Tests and Levels on the menu. Find the information about Lexile Tests and Levels on the menu, as well as about Internet Safety.  Look for this box at the end of this post.  😒   Both A3 and A4 were too loud in the halls today.  Next time we leave the classroom as a group, we will need to go in a more orderly way.

If You Were Absent: Complete your reading make-up. You may pick up the handout from class or download it on Skyward or here: Using the Internet.docx  Complete this assignment at home, and turn it in as soon as possible.

Vocabulary: URL:  the address of a web page