Week at a Glance for Computer Specialty at JQES

2026 - 27 Computer Specialty Weekly Plan

Teacher:  Andrea Blake

Questions?    Email ablake@bostonpublicschools.org

• Exit Ticket to show what you learned

• Computer Science Vocabulary you need to know 

Week 1  9/8 - 9/11

Welcome Back to School!   Let's talk, get to know each other, review expectations.

Our main focus for this semester:

• Grades K-1: Digital Citizenship skills, and Code.org coding

• 2nd grade: Typing.com and Google skills (docs, slides, etc.)

• Grades 3-5: Scratch coding.  We learn coding skills and prepare a final project.  Some students choose to enter their final project for the BPS coders coding competition in January. Details and submission form is usually disclosed in December.

Do Now:  

• Grades 2-5 Start your digital journals today... For your first entry, please take a selfie, tell me one interesting thing you did this summer, and three things that I should know about you.

• Grades 4-5 Challenge: Make a cartoon avatar for yourself at https://www.dolldivine.com/powerpuff-yourself fill out the quiz as well, then take a screenshot of the about you it generates for you, and paste that in your journal. 

Next week...

Make a bobble head doll version of yourself in Adobe Express using this bobble head template, then take a screenshot and upload it to your journal.