End of Year Bulletin Board

I have asked my 5th Grade students to use the Drawing Program to create a self portrait and print to the color printer. The students really need to be encouraged to use the WHOLE screen, otherwise they draw themselve to small for a big bulletin board. Next, they open up word and add a talk bubble and type what they liked about computer class or 5th Grade. They can even talk about what they are looking forward to when they begin middle school. This bulletin board is visible during the summer. It's a great board to have up throughout the summer and visiting families can see what the students like about the school and the things that they learn!

This picture is just a small portion of the whole board! It looks great and I have a lot of compliments on it so far.

Donuts!

Our second graders are going to the neighborhood donut shop to learn about businesses in our community. We used Google documents to take a poll of the class’s favorite donut. I limited the number of choices to four: Glazed, Chocolate, Sprinkles, and Jelly filled. The students took the information and typed the Data into an Excel Spreadsheet to create a Doughnut Graph. I used the website http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30209-how-its-made-process-of-making-donuts-video.htm to show the process of making donuts. This page showed a link for the Twinkies which was actually the most popular requested website in my computer lab. This was a 40 minute lesson and could have easily been two lessons.