I gave Charlie the option of making something in Industrial Arts or playing chess. Since he said he had been practicing with his Grandfather, he preferred Chess. So we played two games; one game was a tie and the other was won by Charlie. Way to go Charlie!!

Objectives:* Computer skills- keyboard, mouse, and navigating
through the web to get to RAZ Kids A-Z...
After navigating through the web, Kelcy spent most of the time on RAZ Kids A-Z reading various stories and answering the questions associated with the stories. He plans to do a few more in the next 2 days in hopes to level up before returning to New Jersey.

Objectives:* Knowledge of the keyboard...
* Navigate for information on the web...
* Key details of an informational text...
When reading our story this morning, Kelcy wanted to know the difference between a crocodile and an alligator. We did research on the web writing the facts on a Venn diagram. When he gathered the information, he wrote a paragraph on the differences and similarities.

Objectives:* Computer skills- keyboard, mouse, and navigating
through web sites...
* Characteristics of Living Things...
* Habitats...
* Research...
In the morning we read a story about a pond habitat. This lead to our afternoon discussion on habitats. Kelcy was asked to select a habitat he wanted to research. He selected the rainforest. He was provided with a few questions that would be used to help locate information needed for this project and off we went , clipboard in hand, to a computer. He was provided several links to information on his habitat. Using the keyboard and the mouse he navigated through the web collecting the information needed. He then took the information and made an nonfiction informational book. He will complete his book tomorrow and wants to share it with his family. He is excited about bringing it home.

This morning Charlie began with Typing Club. He forgot it was Tuesday so he didn't bring his own computer so we used a computer in another classroom. He did well with the different lessons he was working on and scored a100% on a few. He was working specifically on the middle row of the keyboard. Charlie also did some reading comprehension lessons on the computer where he read a passage and answered 5-6 questions per passage. Charlie did well on those, too! Finally Charlie showed me what he had been working on with "Dash". He programmed it to go around the green square in his room and it even danced at the end. Very neat!

Jayne and I brainstormed topics of interest. She decided on unicorns and we searched for an image of her liking. We have it saved as a document ready to be edited with color.

Will wrote and formatted a letter in MS Word. He applied paragraph spacing, line spacing, font type and size, margins, and borders.

Will continued to work on his document to make formatting changes. He added a border, page numbers, header, and a picture and caption.

Will continued to work on formatting his document. He applied styles (Title, Normal, Heading1) and then modified them. He also learned how to incorporate hyperlinks.

I gave Will an unformatted two-page document. He is independently figuring out what formatting and styles he would like to apply. He has begun with adding a title, changing the line spacing, and adding a numbered list.