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Lower
School students
have access to approximately 110 networked windows computers
located in a computer lab, and classrooms. Each student
in grades K-5 spends at least 40 minutes per week in the
computer lab for formal instruction.
Sample of class projects:
- Kindergartners demonstrate their emerging mastery
of initial letter sounds by creating name posters
linking each letter in their name to pictures (stamps)
of things that begin with that letter or sound;
- First graders write and illustrate stories about
their lives or something they are learning in their
classroom;
- Second graders work cooperatively on an interdisciplinary
unit in which they create a game (in Physical Education
class), write a description of the game including
equipment needed and rules (during Language Arts time),
and "publish" their results, including original
illustrations (in computer class);
- Third graders conduct independent research on Arctic
and Antarctic animals using age-appropriate research
CDs and creating illustrated slide show presentations
of their findings.
- Fourth graders graph and analyze the activities
in a "typical" day for math class; and
- Fifth graders create robots using Lego and the Logo
programming language, challenging themselves to ever
higher reading goals with Accelerated Reader, or working
with digital cameras and scanned photos as part of
a project for history or science.
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