2nd Grade
2018-19
June 11th:
June 11th:
- Dash & Dot!
June 7th:
June 7th:
- Whole Class: Check out Name Animations in Scratch
- Lessons in Typing Club
- Choose an option:
June 4th:
June 4th:
- Whole Class: Monster Project Results
- Lessons in Typing Club
- ABC Mouse or create something in Scratch
May 31st:
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:
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
- Make sure every sprite has a script that:
- 10 minutes of lessons in Typing Club
- ABC Mouse
May 7th - 14th:
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
- Make sure every sprite has a script that:
- Done with everything?
- 10 minutes of lessons in Typing Club
- ABC Mouse
April 30th & May 3rd:
April 30th & May 3rd:
- Whole Class: Introduction to Scratch
- How to make a sprite move forever
- Event
- Algorithm
- Loop
- How to make a sprite move forever
- Sign in to Scratch & see what you can create!
April 12th:
April 12th:
- Whole Class: Easter Egg Hunt
- ABC Mouse
April 2nd - 9th:
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
- Look at the redraws of your monster
- 10 minutes of lessons in Typing Club
- ABC Mouse
March 29th:
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:
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:
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:
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:
February 22nd:
- Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons
- ABC Mouse
February 15th & 19th:
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:
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:
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:
February 1st:
- Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons
- ABC Mouse
January 22nd - 29th:
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)
- What Makes a Computer a Computer?
- Finish Building a Paper Computer including creating an input or output device.
- Done? ABC Mouse
January 18th:
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:
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:
- Cut out 5 hardware components
- Glue 5 hardware components in place inside the computer on the motherboard
- Design your own power plug
January 11th:
January 11th:
- Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons
- ABC Mouse
January 8th:
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:
January 4th:
- Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons
- ABC Mouse
December 11th:
December 11th:
- Whole Class: The Christmas Story
- Program Bee-Bot/Robot Mouse to retell the Christmas Story
December 7th:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
October 26th:
- Sign in to Typing Club and complete keyboarding lessons for 10 minutes
- ABC Mouse
October 23rd:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
September 17th:
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:
September 14th:
- Complete the Student Technology Survey
- Finish your self-portrait in Tux Paint
- Activities on ABCya!
September 11th:
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:
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