Dec. 8-12, 2025

Dewey Decimal System Day, celebrated every December 10th, honors the birthday of Melvil Dewey (1851–1931), the librarian who revolutionized how we organize and find information. 

Due to ATLAS testing for 1st & 2nd grades on Tuesday & Wednesday beginning at 8:30am, all other students are to stay off Chromebooks.  The classes I see at this time will listen to a My Weird School book and do the coding/AI lesson next week.

Student-friendly "I can" statement:  I can learn basic block coding. I can learn about Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Also:

Students who can check out a book will do so.

Brain Breaks will be utilized as needed.

Arkansas Computer Science Standards: 

CSK8.K.6.1 - Use a block-based programming language individually and collaboratively to solve level-appropriate problems

CSK8.G1.6.1 - Use a block-based programming language individually and collaboratively to solve level-appropriate problems

CSK8.G2.6.1 - Use a block-based programming language individually and collaboratively to solve level-appropriate problems

CSK8.G3.6.1 - Use a block-based programming language individually and collaboratively to solve level-appropriate problems

CSK8.G4.6.1 - Use a block-based programming language individually and collaboratively to solve level-appropriate problems

CSK8.G5.6.1 - Use a visual block-based or text-based programming language individually and collaboratively to solve level-appropriate problems

CSK8.G6.6.1 - Use a visual block-based or text-based programming language individually and collaboratively to solve level-appropriate problems

This week is U.S. Computer Science Education Week and we will be celebrating it by learning to code and growing our coding abilities!  :D   (Dec. 8-14, 2025)

Hour of Code Intro

2023 Hour of Code

Push Yourself - Anyone Can Learn

How do computers work?

Another video about how computers work

What Most Schools Don't Teach

Former President Barack Obama Wants You To Code, Too! 

Choose your coding course by clicking on the appropriate link below:

K, 1, 2, 3 - Click here

4, 5, 6 - Click here

3, 4, 5, 6 - Click here to try out a coding activity

Dance party challenge

Minecraft challenges

Lots of other challenges

Technology can change the world, and YOU can create it! 

 Click here to read about a girl who used technology and science to help people in Flint, Michigan.  She also created an app to help end cyberbullying and has been named Time magazine's very first Kid of the Year for her work.

A young man in Pennsylvania created a device to warn parents if they accidently leave their baby in the car seat.

$$$$$$ net worth in 2025 - Richest People in the World (https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/)

1. Tesla & SpaceX - Elon Musk - $342 billion (was $195 billion last year)

2. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg - $216 billion (was $177 billion last year)

3. Amazon - Jeff Bezos - $215 billion (was $194 billion last year)

4. Larry Ellison - Oracle - $192 billion (was $141 billion last year)

7. Larry Page - Google - $144 billion (was $114 billion last year)

8. Sergey Brin - Google - $138 billion (was $110 billion last year)

10. Steve Ballmer - Microsoft - $118 billion (was $121 billion last year)

13. Microsoft - Bill Gates - $108 billion (was $128 billion last year)

16. Jensen Huang - semiconductors for tech - $98.7 billion (was $77 billion last year)

17. Dell - Michael Dell - $97.7 billion (was $91 billion last year)

23. Zhang Yiming - TikTok - $65.5 billion (was $43.4 billion last year)

29. Ma Huateng - online games - $56.2 billion (was $30.2 billion last year)