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WELCOME, GRADE 3!

This year we will review the parts of a computer that are needed for computers to work. We will also practice and practice and practice using the Home Row Keys, the QWERTY Row Keys, and the Bottom Row Keys for typing.

Type Online Third graders work to know special keys that are needed for correct punctuation in all programs. Drawing Tools are also tools that help give projects their finishing touches so third graders will work with them. Some research will be done, also.

Dance Mat Typing Practice [] and Typing Practice []

Third Graders will:
 * 1) Review Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).
 * 2) View Internet Safety CD based on the Netsmartz program suggested by the Archdiocesan Guidelines.
 * 3) Practice Keyboarding, Home and Qwerty rows.

Third graders have been working on the punctuation that is on the keyboard and how and when to keyboard them into a story. Quotations are different than apostrophes and need the shift key to use the quotation marks. Quotation marks "HUG" the words that are being spoken on the page.

__//**In Trimester 2**//__ Students continue to practice keyboarding with all the letter rows. They began a story of "We Are Stronger Together" to practice the use of quotations and callouts. This will continue. The use of certain functions and tools will be stressed: Insert Online Pictures, Insert Shapes Callouts, and Drawing tools to enhance Callouts and to set the In Front Of Text option so students can move shapes and pictures around the page.

Next they will create a story with a conversation and then add it to a Powerpoint for presentation.

//__**In Trimester 3**__// Students have a story about a boy and a mother buying seeds for planting. Some want to change the characters in the story. They will add the story to a Powerpoint, add sounds, voices, and animations. They can save as a movie in Powerpoint. Then they will upload to Google Drive and open in Google Slides.