2nd Grade Media/Technology
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Golden Keyboard Contest
Starting in October, each class will compete against one another in a keyboarding battle every month. The "Battle" is a 2-minute keyboarding test that the students get to take 3 times. The student's highest WPM score with 90% or more accuracy counts for the contest. The class with the highest average score wins the battle, and gets to keep the golden keyboard in their classroom. The class that wins the Championship round gets their name on the Golden Keyboard and Klondike Bars.
Golden Keyboard Battle Dates:
Battle 1: October 9-13, Winner: Iverson
Battle 2: November 13-17, Winner: Olsen
Battle 3: December 11-15, Winner: Iverson
Battle 4: February 5-9, Winner: Iverson
Battle 5: March 4-8, Winner: Iverson
Championship: April 22-26: Olsen
Accelerated Reader Challenge
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a program that tracks your independent reading. When you finish a book, you take a comprehension quiz on the computer to show your understanding of the book. Every student has an AR goal for each quarter of the school year. Part of the Media/Technology requirements are that you at least meet your AR goal, and hopefully double it, triple it, or more! You will receive points for doing this. One great feature of AR is that it tracks the number of words you read. You can see this for this quarter on the graph. Parents, click here to see your student's progress. You can sign in to Clever with their PSD Email address and password.
Fingers on Home Row
Encore Store
2nd Grade: Fourth Quarter
Day 30 (4/29-5/3)
Typing: Optional until 12:50. Shout outs, gummy bears, and badges for the Championship battle.
Insignia: Log in to Insignia with your username and password to see what books you still have. All books are due by May 10th.
Library: Go to the Book Fair and shop.
Point Sheet: About Me Google Slideshow.
Day 29 (4/17-4/23)
Keyboarding: Warm up and Championship Battle until 12:50.
Insignia: Log in to Insignia with your username and password to see what books you still have. If you have 3 or more books, get to work. If you have less than 3, you can check out up to 3 more.
Point Sheet: About Me Google Slideshow.
Day 28 (4/10-4/15)
Keyboarding: Practice until 12:50.
Insignia: Search up books and find them in the library.
Point Sheet: My 2nd Grade Keyboarding scores, other green assignments, white assignments.
Day 27 (4/1-4/8)
Keyboarding: Practice until 12:50. Take Battle #5 if you haven't.
Insignia: Search up books and find them in the library.
Point Sheet: My 2nd Grade Keyboarding scores, other green assignments, white assignments.
Day 26 (3/25-3/29)
Keyboarding: Practice until 12:50. Take Battle #5 if you haven't.
No Library today.
Point Sheet: Complete green assignments. New assignment: My 2nd Grade Keyboarding Scores (Google Sheet). Watch the video to see how to make your chart cool like the one to the left. Pick a white assignment if you're finished with the green ones.
Day 25 (3/18-3/21)
Got your AR Goal last quarter? Have a free choice day! Choices include building with Keeva planks, trying to set the Ping Pong volley record, or playing on your computer. If you are in Merrill's class and doubled (or more) your goal, you get a treat, too. (You won the Challenge for 3rd quarter. Congrats!)
Keyboarding: Practice/Shoutouts/Gummy Bears/Badges until 12:50. Take Battle #5 if you haven't.
Library: Get a book in your AR level. Check your AR page for recommendations of books. Use Insignia to help you find a book. Be back to the lab by 1:00.
Point Sheet: Complete green assignments. New assignment: My 2nd Grade Keyboarding Scores (Google Sheet). Pick a white assignment if you're finished with the green ones.
2nd Grade: Third Quarter
2024 Battle 5 Promo.mp4Day 24 (2/28-3/7)
Keyboarding: Warm up in Typing Club. Type until 12:50. Show Battle #5 who's the boss!
Library: If you've returned your library books, check Insignia on your computer first if you are trying to find a book. If you know the book you're looking for, go get it.
Point Sheet: Complete green assignments first. When you have points for all green assignments, you can shop in the Encore Store, and choos from any white assignments. See new assignments: About Me Google Slideshow, Make an Animated GIF with Wixie, and Wixie: Write and Illustrate a Story.
Day 23 (2/20-2/27)
Keyboarding: Warm up in Typing Club. Type until 12:50.
Library: Check Insignia on your computer first if you are trying to find a book. If you know the book you're looking for, go get it.
Point Sheet: Complete green assignments first. Memes for the Mountain should be the priority. Please read all instructions carefully and watch any videos.
Day 22 (2/12-2/16)
Keyboarding: Warm up in Typing Club. Type until 12:50. Battle #4 shoutouts during typing.
Library: Check Insignia on your computer first if you are trying to find a book. If you know the book you're looking for, go get it.
Point Sheet: Complete green assignments first. Memes for the Mountain should be the priority. Please read all instructions carefully and watch any videos.
Battle 4 Promo '24.mp4Battle #4 Promo
Day 21 (2/2-2/9)
Keyboarding: Warm up in Typing Club. If you can, practice lessons 57-70 in Typing Basics. These have all the letters you'll have in the test. Take Battle #4 three times. Show it who's boss!
Library: Check Insignia on your computer first if you are trying to find a book. If you know the book you're looking for, go get it.
Point Sheet: Complete green assignments first. Memes for the Mountain should be the priority. Then choose any others you want.
How to put a book back on the shelf if you don't want it.MOVWatch the video to see how to put a book back on a shelf the right way if you don't want to check it out.
Day 20 (1/26-2/1)
<= Watch this video. Books need to be put back in the right place so people can find them when they're looking for them. Here's a trick that will help you do this.
Typing Club: 8 minutes of practice in Typing Basics, or 10 races in NitroType.
Library: Check Insignia on your computer first if you are trying to find a book. If you know the book you're looking for, go get it.
Point Sheet: Complete green assignments first. Memes for the Mountain should be the priority. Get it done and turn it in if you haven't already. Then choose any others you want.
No Read Aloud
Day 19 (1/19-1/24)
AR Prizes: Get a prize from the prize drawer if you reached your goal.
5 Minutes of Typing in Typing Club, Typing Basics
Scoreboard > Point sheet > Memes for the Mountain
Day 18 Read Aloud
Day 18 (1/10-1/16)
Library:
Read Aloud: The Cool Bean
Check out up to 3 books if you brought your others back.
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password
Take an AR Quiz on The Cool Bean. Quiz number: 505496
AR Prizes: Get a prize from the prize drawer if you reached your goal.
5 Minutes of Typing in Typing Club, Typing Basics
Scoreboard > Point sheet > Pick an Assignment > Click Mark as Done when you're finished with an activity.
2nd Grade: Second Quarter
Partner Reading
Day 16 (12/11-12/15)
Library:
Partner read an AR book you haven't read before.
Pair up by team number. (Mr. Deakin will tell you.)
Teams 13-4, 12-4, 11-4 or 1-5 in blue rockers, others on cushions.
Get a book from the pink or blue table to read. You will take it to the computer lab when you are finished. Put your chairs back where they go before leaving.
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password.
Take an AR Quiz on the book you partner read. Use the quiz number from the back of the book. Put the book in the rolling cart when you're finished.
Typing Club: Warm up with a lesson or 2 and show Battle #3 who's the boss!
Book Checkout if you need one, two or 3 books.
Scoreboard> Point sheet > Memes for the Mountain. Watch the video to help you. Pause the video after each step, go to your slides tab and do it.
Partner Reading
Day 15 (12/4-12/8)
Library:
Partner read an AR book you haven't read before.
Pair up by team number. (Mr. Deakin will tell you.)
Teams 6-10 in blue rockers, others in scoop rockers or on cushions.
Get a book from the pink table to read. You will take it to the computer lab when you are finished. Put your chairs back where they go when you are finished.
Check out at least 1 AR book for independent reading. The longer the book, the more points you get if you pass a quiz. Go to the computer lab.
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password.
Take an AR Quiz on the book you partner read. Use the quiz number from the back of the book. Put the book in the rolling cart when you're finished.
4 minutes of keyboarding practice. Battle #3 is next week!
Scoreboard> Point sheet > Memes for the Mountain. Watch the video to help you. Pause the video after each step, go to your slides tab and do it.
Partner Reading
Day 14 (11/27-12/1)
Library:
Partner read an AR book you haven't read before.
Pair up by team number. (Mr. Deakin will tell you.)
Teams 1-5 in blue rockers, others in scoop rockers or on pads.
Get a book from the pink table to read. You will take it to the computer lab when you are finished.
Check out at least 1 AR book. The longer the book, the more points you get if you pass a quiz. Go to the computer lab.
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password.
Take an AR Quiz on the book you partner read. Use the quiz number from the back of the book.
6 minutes of keyboarding practice, take Battle #2 if you haven't. Shout-outs and badges.
Scoreboard> Point sheet > Make a Turkey with Wixie. Practice watching a video to help you complete a lesson. Click Mark as done with finished so Mr. D can put it on the TV's.
Day 13 (11/13-11/17)
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password
Battle #2 Video.
Warm up in Typing Basics with one lesson and take Battle #2, 3 times. Try to beat your best score.
Go to the Book Fair, buy one, two or a few great books and come back when your finished.
Scoreboard> Point sheet > Make a Turkey with Wixie. Practice watching a video to help you complete a lesson. Click Mark as done with finished so Mr. D can put it on the TV's.
Day 12 (11/8-11/10)
Library:
Read Aloud: Good Boy, Fergus!
Check out books if you brought books back.
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password
Type for 5 minutes on Typing Club, Typing Basics
Scoreboard>Point Sheet> Programming with Angry Birds, Debugging in Maze, Collecting Treasure with Laurel.
Day 11 (11/1-11/7)
Library:
Read Aloud: Leonardo the Terrible Monster
Check out books if you brought books back.
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password
Type for 5 minutes on Typing Club, Typing Basics
Take an AR Quiz on The Hallo-Wiener (13785) if you haven't, and Leonardo the Terrible Monster (88782)
Scoreboard>Point Sheet> Programming with Angry Birds, Debugging in Maze. New assignment: Collecting Treasure with Laurel
Day 10 (10/25-10/31)
Library:
Read Aloud: The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey
Check out books if you brought books back.
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password
Type for 5 minutes on Typing Club, Typing Basics
Take an AR Quiz on The Hallo-Wiener.
Explore Pebble-Go
2nd Grade: First Quarter
Day 8 Read Aloud
Day 9 (10/9-10/24)
Library:
Read Aloud: Mr. Brown can Moo! Can You? by Dr. Seuss
Check out up to 3 books if you brought your other books back.
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password
Typing Practice: Typing Basics and Battle #1 Shout outs, badges, and gummy bears.
New Assignment: DeBugging in Maze. (Pair program if you want.)
Battle #1 Promo.mp4Day 8 (10/9-10/13)
Library: Check out books. Read: There's a Wocket in my Pocket!
Typing Club: Learning Target: Test your skill. See how fast you are today...
Sit up straight, line B key up with my belly button, put my feet flat on the floor, put my fingers on the home row keys, use the app to help me touch type without looking at my keyboard.
Today: Battle #1!!! Show it who's the boss!
Scoreboard > Point Sheet: Programming with Angry Birds
Day 7 Read Aloud
Day 7 (10/2-10/6)
Library:
Read Aloud: A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
Check out books if you brought them back
Computer Lab:
Log in to your computer with your username and password
Go to the Tavelli Home Page > Students
6 Minutes of typing practice at Typing Club, Typing Basics. Battle #1 is next week!
Pair Programming with Angry Birds.
No Read Aloud
Day 6 (9/25-9/29)
Library:
Check out 3 books if you brought your books back
Computer Lab:
5 Minutes of Typing Practice in Typing Club. Take Pre Test 3 times if you haven't.
Learning Target: Improve your speed and skill. I can:
Sit up straight, line B key up with my belly button, put my feet flat on the floor, put my fingers on the home row keys, use the app to help me touch type without looking at my keyboard.
Join my Google Classroom
Use the Point sheet to open: Programming with Angry Birds. Learning Target: I can use my toolbox and workspace to arrange my code to make my sprite complete different tasks.
Day 5 Read Aloud
Day 5 (9/15-9/21)
Library:
David Goes to School Read Aloud
Check out 3 books if you brought your books back
Computer Lab:
Programming with Angry Birds
Day 4 Read Aloud
Day 4 (9/8-9/14)
Library:
Duck on a bike read aloud.
Check out up to 3 books
Computer Lab: Sign in to computers with your username and password
Keyboarding at Typing Club
Sign in with Google
Warm up with Typing Basics for 5 minutes.
Take the 2nd grade pre-test 3 times
Sign in to Google Classroom
Free choice
Day 3 Read Aloud
Day 3 (8/31-9/7)
Library:
Waiting is not easy read aloud.
Check out up to 3 books
Computer Lab: Sign in to computers with your username and password
Keyboarding at Typing Club
Sign in with Google
Warm up with Typing Basics for 5 minutes.
Take the 2nd grade pre-test 3 times
Sign in to Google Classroom
Free choice
Day 2 Read Aloud
Day 2 (8/24-8/30)
Library:
Amy Giggles Read Aloud
Check out up to 3 books
Computer Lab: Sign in to computers with your username and password
Sign in to Google Chrome with your PSD email address and password. (User name@psdschools.org).
Sign in to Google Classroom
Free choice
Day 1 Read Aloud
Day 1 (8/17-8/23)
Library:
Read Aloud, together with expression: The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!
Library Tour
Check out books/laptops
Computer Lab: Sign in to computers with your username and password
Sign in to Google Chrome with your PSD email address and password. (User name@psdschools.org).
Sign in to Google Classroom