1st Grade

6/1--Due to the popularity of the giveaway across schools, and to give everyone a chance, we are extending the deadline to this Friday. It seems the system is stopping your entries.

Please send your name, grade, and school to jkershner@holyfamilyaston.org and I will forward them on.


5/26--There are no new assignments for Technology class for this year, but I do have an end of year message for you, and my company, Education Technology Professionals is doing a giveaway. One student in Prek-3 through 3rd grade will get a StoryTime Chess set.

You may watch a video with the message and giveaway announcement at: https://youtu.be/6rpgGuGg3QU

To enter to win the StoryTime Chess set, send your name, grade, and that you are a Holy Family student to: giveaway@educationtechpros.com


Our current assignments (as of April 1, 2020):

  • If you have a standard keyboard, please log onto typing.com (if you can remember your login, other wise just go to the site and start) and practice typing without looking at your fingers for 10 minutes each week.
    • For class A, the login is lastname, first initial, "hf", with password first four letters of first name, 2019, so my login would be kershnerjhf, and Jona2019.
    • For class B, the login is first initial, last name, "hf", with password first four letters of first name, 2019, so my login would be jkershnerhf, and Jona2019.
  • Please log onto code.org/join, class code for Class A is LTYVPV, and class B is CXSDJF. Click on your name and the picture from your sign-in card. If you do not remember your picture, please contact me at jkershner@holyfamilyaston.org and I will share it with you. Please spend about 30 minutes a week at code.org.
  • If you have completed Course A, please click on create in the upper right corner and play with an Artist or Dance Party project. Make something interesting and share it with me at jkershner@holyfamilyaston.org.
  • If you have completed both of these, then you are ahead of the class. I encourage you to play around on code.org, making other projects, or go to scratch.mit.edu and play around there. Have fun. Learn how to do complicated things. Please share what you create with me.