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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