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WELCOME, GRADE 4!

I__//**Keyboarding**//__

Keyboarding is a fundamental skill for data entry into a desktop or laptop. Jobs are built around this skill in business. Therefore, students are still required to practice this skill and build upon it over the school year. This year we are using an online program found at [|www.typeonline.co.uk]. Students can practice at home. They are required to use proper placement of hands on the keys as they type. Also, their goals are to achieve their personal bests, not compare themselves to others. Some is dependent upon the development of fine motor skills and the size of their hands. Fourth grade has more special characters to practice with all the letters and numbers on the keyboard.

__//**Working in the Cloud**//__ Children will be given gmail accounts to use for school emailing as well as setting up accounts for school subscriptions. They have access to google drive to create and share documents. Grades 4 through 8 are developing their use of cloud files.

Children need to know their AppleIds and Passwords as well as Passcodes for using their iPads. Their AppleIds must be the same as their school email account.

 **//__First Trimester__//**

 Now that the children have their iPads, we will be working to show comparisons of using the desktop, window operating system and the iPad IOS8 operating system. They will need to know their usernames and passwords to get on their email and App store.

 Throughout the first trimester, we will be working to establish the connection between Word and Google Docs. How Word can be uploaded to Google and how they can download a Doc to Word. Also, the differences in Saving vs automatic Saves. We will work with Google Sheets and Excel in a basic project for charting.

 Students worked on setting up accounts with Glogster. We found out that our gmail accounts needed to be in Setting for Mail in order to email to teachers. They did very well in following the directions.

 They, also, built their first mini database with Excel about favorite colors. Children will copy and paste it into their Google Drive in order for it to be "in the cloud".

They counted their candy from Halloween and added them to a Google Sheet. Now we are exploring the ways to make a chart.

__//**I**////**n Trimester 2**//__ Students will continue to practice keyboarding skills with a goal of 25 Words Per Minute by May. The children will continue to create charts in Excel and Google Sheets. Students reviewed the way to Download a Google Sheet to Excel or to upload an Excel spreadsheet to Google sheet.

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Shoo Rayner //__**In Trimester 3**__// Students become familiar with search engines and their use for finer searching. http://materdeiit.wikispaces.com/Research+Tools The topic will be Pennsylvania. Students will learn to use the parts of Google Slides to make notes and create source pages. @https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=Pennsylvania