"Like a ten-speed bike, most of us have gears we do not use."  ---Charles Schultz

School Year 2008 - 2009

November

Mrs. Rachkis' Technology Classroom Website

Dear Students,

Remember an account has been set up for you and your parents to utilize as a resource for research. This web site has been created by teachers for parents and students to use for academic projects. Log on to the Nettreckker web site using "sacredheartsp" as the username and "studentsshs" as the password.

Please use www.goodsearch as a search engine.


Look What's Happening in the Computer!

Pre-K   Letter People...Find the letter on the keyboard...make capital and lower case 

K-World   Have students type their name in WORD  and change the size, position and style of the text.

First Grade  Kids Time Software

Second Grade  Touch Typing

Third Grade     Create a Silly Shapely Scarecrow in PAINT and then describe their scarecrow in WORD.  Give him/her a name.

Fourth Grade  Using the Thesaurus in WORD rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance

Fifth Grade  Create a Math Fraction table in WORD

Sixth Grade  Create a Halloween Bingo game in WORD.  Play the game and use the highlighter function to keep track of words called.

Seventh Grade  ASCII Autograph  Create your own ASCII name in WORD using the letter and characters on the keyboard.

Eighth Grade  Create a totem pole to represent and correspod with your family history.  Pick 5 symbols for your totem pole.  In Power Point put your totem pole on the first slide with your name.  Describe each symbol along with the picture using one slide.

 Saint of Technology, pray for us.