Welcome Battle Geeks!
I'll post photos and information about our techological adventures throughout
the school year on this page.
Reading Eggs (grades K & 1) and Study Island (grades K-5) are ready for you to
explore and will be embedded as concept reinforcement (practice) and
remediation at every grade level. If you haven't seen the letter sent home in
your child's agenda ask for another copy at Literacy Night, September 20.
Reading Eggs provides a unique login when a parent enrolls using their home
computer.
We've adjusted the Study Island login procedure for K-2nd Grades to use
district assigned lunch numbers as username and password. However, some
usernames/lunch numbers were already assigned to Study Island users at another
school. If so, your child's first name was placed in front of the lunch number
for their username and the password remained their lunch number alone.
FasttMath is being completed by different grade levels and groups within grade
leves. This Scholastic published program reinforces student development of
their math facts: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. All of
second and fourth grade participate several times a week for approximately 15
minutes. Selected groups of students in third and fifth grade also participate
two or three times a week.
If you have questions about these programs please contact me via phone or
e-mail at 209-5747, ext 269 or rosenow_s@hcde.org
BattleBots Robotics
Team
This Spring we return to a one day a week schedule Mondays 3:00-5:00PM in the
Forum, working on the four parts of our program: Design, Programming, Teamwork
and Project Presentation. The 2011 First Lego League Challenge is called Food
Factor and focuses on how food is produced, distributed, protected from
contamination and preserved. We will participate in the TVA Showcase in May.
Nineteen third graders have joined our team with four remaining fourth
graders. (Fifth grade rotates off in the spring to allow room for the new
participants.)
Meeting one day a week has allowed another program to be introduced: Jr. FLL.
This program is designed for a smaller group of first and second graders. We
will explore the basic philosophy and concepts of the First Lego League while
experimenting with Lego building blocks and simple machine mechanisms. This
program called Lil' Bats & Lil' Bots will meet on Wednesdays 3:00-5:00PM in
the Forum.