Mother's Day Portraits using 2Create

6th Age friends have taken a break from the MyCalvert curriculum to create portraits of our mothers. Inspired by the upcoming Mother's Day, we used the program 2Create to make virtual portraits. Some friends even utilized clip art to represent some of their mother's favorite foods, animals, and activities!

Starry Night

Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night, 6th Age friends used the program 2Create to make their very own portraits. What a fun project. Great work friends!

Creating Art Using Technology

Last week we took a break from our MyCalvert technology lessons. We started using a program called 2Create. This program allows us to create art and express ourselves much as we would using crayons, paints, or markers. One exciting feature is the ability to insert clip art to our pictures. Take a look at some of our creations below!

2010

WELCOME BACK FRIENDS!

Calvert is alive with excited friends and teachers happy to return to school. I certainly missed everyone and am excited to get back to work this week! I hope that you all had a healthy and happy winter break. I look forward to continued communication throughout the winter.

Happy New Year!

6's Begin MyCalvert Technology Lessons!

This week we are exploring our MyCalvert Technology Lessons. We are working hard to learn the steps needed to access our personal MyCalvert accounts. Before the lesson of the week, we will often use the Smartboard to preview the skills utilized in the upcoming lesson. Watch below as we take turns, follow directions, and properly manipulate the Smartboard.

Technology

We have been busy!

During the past two weeks we have explored two stories and reinforced concepts on the computer. First, we read "ChickaChicka Boom Boom" by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Lois Ehlert. We loved the engaging story about the letters of the alphabet. We also discussed the sequence of events in the story. To reinforce concepts we played a letter matching game (matching uppercase and lowercase letters). We also played a game where we had to sequence events. Four pictures were displayed out of order. Our job was to distinguish and select what happened first, second, third, and last.

The following week we read "Chicka Chicka 1,2,3" by bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Lois Ehlert. Prior to reading the story I asked the children to discuss what happened the previous week in "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom". Next, we read the new story then discussed how the books were the same and how they were different. We found that the two stories had the same author as well as illustrator. Both involved large trees and both the letters and the numbers fall out of their respective trees. Conversely, one story involved letters and the other was about numbers. One had a coconut tree and the second had an apple tree. The letters fall out of the coconut tree because there are too many. The branch bends and they all topple out. The numbers fall out of the apple tree because a swarm of bees scares them out!

After our discussion we played a number game where we had to count the number of bubbles on the screen. The children used 1-1 correspondence, visual discrepancy, and identification of numerals.

Technology Guidelines

Come to class with clean hands.
Operate the equipment properly.
Make sure you listen to directions.
Push your chair in & clean up when you are done.
Use your inside voice.
Touch the keyboard lightly.
Eat & drink outside the computer lab.
Remember to take your printouts with you.

Log-off - leave the station ready for the next person to use.
Ask for help if you don't understand something.
Be ready to learn something new when you come to the lab.