2nd Grade

2018-19

June 11th:

Dash & Dot!

June 7th:

Whole Class: Check out Name Animations in Scratch
Lessons in Typing Club
Choose an option:
- ABC Mouse
- Create something in Scratch

June 4th:

Whole Class: Monster Project Results
Lessons in Typing Club
ABC Mouse or create something in Scratch

May 31st:

Keimarey: Turn in your drawing on assignment CA01: Monster Project Redraw
Lessons in Typing Club
ABC Mouse or create something in Scratch

May 21st - 27th:

Whole Class:
- Introduction to our Monster Project partner school
- Reminders on redrawing monsters
Redraw monsters in Tux Paint
Done redrawing? Turn in your drawing on assignment CA01: Monster Project Redraw
Natalie: Sign in to Scratch & finish animating your name
- Make sure every sprite has a script that:
  - Starts on Green Flag
  - Sets the starting position of the sprite (Go to X: Y:)
  - Points the sprite in direction 90
  - A wait if the animation is going to start on the Green Flag
- When your animation is done:
  - Share your project so that other people can see it
  - Add your project to the Class of 2025 Studio
  - If you need to click on sprites to have them animate, add instructions for your project
10 minutes of lessons in Typing Club
ABC Mouse

May 7th - 14th:

Whole Class:
- Introduction to Name Animation project
- Some Scratch How Tos
  - Review how to Move Forever
  - Review how to add a background in Scratch
  - Review how to edit a sprite
  - How to make a sprite spin & make it go back to starting rotation
  - How to make a sprite change size
  - How to make a sprite change color
  - How to name your Scratch project
Sign in to Scratch & animate your name
- Make sure every sprite has a script that:
  - Starts on Green Flag
  - Sets the starting position of the sprite (Go to X: Y:)
  - Points the sprite in direction 90
  - A wait if the animation is going to start on the Green Flag
- If your animation is done:
  - Share your project so that other people can see it
  - Add your project to the Class of 2025 Studio
  - If you need to click on sprites to have them animate, add instructions for your project
Done with everything?
- 10 minutes of lessons in Typing Club
- ABC Mouse

April 30th & May 3rd:

Whole Class: Introduction to Scratch
- How to make a sprite move forever
  - Event
  - Algorithm
  - Loop
Sign in to Scratch & see what you can create!

April 12th:

Whole Class: Easter Egg Hunt
ABC Mouse

April 2nd - 9th:

Sign in to Google Classroom and open your document from Assignment P06: Monster Project Description
- Look at the redraws of your monster
  - Are there body parts missing? Add a description for those
  - Are there body parts that are not the right shape? Fix the description of your shape
  - Are there body parts that are not the right number of parts? Fix your description to have the correct number
  - Are there body parts that are not the right color? Fix your description to have a better description of your color
  - Is there anything else you need to fix on your description?
- Resubmit the assignment when done fixing the problems
10 minutes of lessons in Typing Club
ABC Mouse

March 29th:

Whole Class: What Makes a Computer a Computer?
Let's look inside a computer:
- Can you find the hard drive?
- Can you find the RAM?
- Where's the CPU/GPU?
ABC Mouse

March 6th - 26th:

Sign in to Google Classroom and work on Assignment P06: Monster Project Description
Done?
- 10 minutes of lessons in Typing Club
- ABC Mouse

March 5th:

Whole Class:
- Check out Describing Ourselves slides
- Go Away, Big Green Monster!
- Introduction to Monster Project Description
Sign in to Google Classroom and work on Assignment P06: Monster Project Description

February 25th & March 1st:

Whole Class:
- What words would you think of to describe a monster?
- Listen to Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective and find adjectives in the book
- Introduction to Describing Ourselves
Sign in to Google Classroom and complete Assignment P05: Describing Ourselves. Mark as done when complete.
If done, ABC Mouse

February 22nd:

Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons
ABC Mouse

February 15th & 19th:

Whole Class: Reminders on drawing your monster
- Draw an interesting monster with multiple body parts
- You should use shapes and colors that are easy to describe
- Do not add a background to your picture
Draw your monster in Tux Paint
Done? ABC Mouse

February 11th:

Whole Class: How to add your drawing to the Drawing Tessa Slides
Sign in to Google Classroom and add your drawing and turn in Assignment P04: Drawing Tessa
Whole Class: How did you do drawing Tessa and what could we do to improve the instructions?
ABC Mouse

February 8th:

Whole Class: Introduction to Monster Project by looking at the monsters 2nd grade redrew last year!
Whole Class: Listen to the description and draw the monster described.

February 1st:

Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons
ABC Mouse

January 22nd - 29th:

Whole Class:
- What Makes a Computer a Computer?
  - Review Processing & Storage
  - Correctly identify Input and Output devices
- Finish Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer (Chapters 6 & 7)
Finish Building a Paper Computer including creating an input or output device.
Done? ABC Mouse

January 18th:

Whole Class:
- What are the 4 things all computers do?
- What Processing computer parts did Ruby meet during our last class?
- What Storage computer parts did Ruby meet during our last class?
Finish designing your power plug
ABC Mouse

January 15th:

Whole Class:
- What's inside a computer?
- Let's see what Ruby finds!
  - Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer (Chapters 3-5)
Build a Paper Computer:
1. Cut out 5 hardware components
2. Glue 5 hardware components in place inside the computer on the motherboard
3. Design your own power plug

January 11th:

Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons
ABC Mouse

January 8th:

Whole Class:
- Is This a Computer?
- What Makes a Computer, a Computer?
  - Input
  - Output
  - Processing
  - Storage
- Review of external parts of a desktop computer
- Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer (Chapters 1 & 2)

January 4th:

Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons
ABC Mouse

December 11th:

Whole Class: The Christmas Story
Program Bee-Bot/Robot Mouse to retell the Christmas Story

December 7th:

Whole Class: Bee-Bot/Robot Mouse Dance Moves
- Create the robot bug dance algorithm as a class
Bug Dance:
- Transfer the Bug Dance algorithm to your planning sheet
- Program your robot to do the robot bug dance
- Did your robot do the dance correctly? If not, find the bugs in your plan and fix them and then re-program your robot and try again.
Whole Class: Class Robot Bug Dance!
Plan and program an original dance for your Bee-Bot/Robot Mouse
Whole Class: Robot Dances!

December 4th:

It’s a special week in the lab. It’s Computer Science Education Week and we’re going to celebrate this week with dancing!
Whole Class: Bug Dance!
- Read the book “Bug Dance” by Stuart J. Murphy
- Display the algorithm for the bug dance
- Do the bug dance as a class
Whole Class: Bee-Bot/Robot Mouse Dance Moves
- How do these robots move?
- What dance moves that you did can the robots NOT do?
- What could the robots do instead? Create the robot bug dance algorithm
Whole Class: How to use the Bug Dance Planning Sheet
Bug Dance:
- Use your paper Bee-Bot to plan your robots bug dance on the planning sheet
- Once your plan is done, program your robot to do the robot bug dance
- Did your robot do the dance correctly? If not, find the bugs in your plan and fix them and then re-program your robot and try again.
Whole Class: Class Robot Bug Dance!

November 27th:

Whole Class: How to add your Google Document to Seesaw
Add a Seesaw post for your pixel art
- Go to Seesaw and add a post for your Pixel Art Google Document
- Go to Google Classroom and sign out of your Google Account
Done? Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons

November 13th - 20th:

Whole Class:
- How to save a picture of your Pixel Art
- How to add a document to a Google Classroom assignment
Use the Print Screen button to capture and save a picture of your Pixel Art which should be named 2nd-YourName-Halloween
Go to Google Classroom and complete and turn in assignment P03: Halloween Pixel Art Writing.
Done? ABC Mouse

October 30th - November 9th:

Whole Class: Introduction to Halloween Pixel Art
Go to Google Classroom and open your Pixel Art spreadsheet and create a Halloween Pixel Art picture. Make sure to Turn In when you are done.
Done? ABC Mouse

October 26th:

Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons for 10 minutes
ABC Mouse

October 23rd:

Go to Seesaw and review the comments you received. If someone asked a question, answer it.
Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons for 10 minutes
ABC Mouse

October 18th:

Review your comments from Tuesday
Go to Seesaw and:
- Add a TAG comment to the Dot Day post of the classmate you were assigned
- Add a TAG comment to at least one other classmate's Dot Day post
ABC Mouse

October 16th:

Whole Class: Introduction to TAG commenting
- T - Tell about something you liked
- A - Ask a question
- G - Give a suggestion (I wonder ...)
Go to the Seesaw Blog and at each of your classmate's computers, fill out a TAG. Remember, you don't have to use all of the letters in TAG; you can just use one, if you like.
Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons

October 12th:

Whole Class:
- How to save your slide from the Make Our Mark presentation
- How to add your slide to Seesaw
Open the Make Our Mark presentation:
- Go to your slide
- Select File and then Download as and then PNG image
- Click on Pictures
- Edit the file name to be 2nd YourName Make Our Mark
- Save
Go to Seesaw and add a post for your Dot Day slide. Make sure to add a caption to say:
- What you created this for (Dot Day)
- How you drew your picture (Tux Paint)
- How you created the slide (Google Slides)

October 9th:

Whole Class: Reminders on using Quiver App
Bring your Make Our Mark Dots to life with Quiver App and make sure to take a picture
ABC Mouse

October 5th:

Whole Class: Check out how class will Make Our Mark
Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons for 10 minutes
ABC Mouse

October 2nd:

Whole Class: How to sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons
Finish your Make Your Mark Dot picture in Tux Paint, if not done
Sign in to Google Classroom and complete your slide on assignment P01: Making Our Mark. Make sure to Mark as Done when complete.
Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons

September 28th:

Whole Class:
- How to sign in to Google Classroom
- How to complete assignment P01: Making Our Mark
- Reminder that the picture you are drawing is something that YOU can do now or plan to do in the future to make the world a better place.
Finish your Make Your Mark Dot picture in Tux Paint
Sign in to Google Classroom and complete your slide on assignment P01: Making Our Mark

September 21st & 25th:

Whole Class: International Dot Day - Watch the story The Dot
Whole Class: What does it mean to Make Your Mark?
Draw a dot about how you will Make Your Mark
Done? Complete some Dot Activities:
- Coloring 4 All Dot to Dot
- ABCya! Connect The Dots

September 17th:

Whole Class: How to add a post in Seesaw for your self-portrait
Go to Seesaw and add a post for your self-portrait. Make sure to add a caption to say how you created your portrait.
Activities on ABCya!

September 14th:

Complete the Student Technology Survey
Finish your self-portrait in Tux Paint
Activities on ABCya!

September 11th:

Whole Class: Hints on drawing a self-portrait in Tux Paint on the computer
Draw your self-portrait in Tux Paint

September 8th:

Whole Class:
- Computer Lab Rules
- Introduction to using a Keyboard & Mouse
- Practice holding and clicking a mouse
- Introduction to Tux Paint on the computer
- Assign computers
Complete the Student Technology Survey
Draw in Tux Paint: Make a picture just using shapes
- Shapes: Circle, Square, Rectangle, Triangle
- Use the Magic Fill Bucket to change the color of the shapes you drew

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