2nd Grade

2018-19

June 11th:

  • Dash & Dot!

June 7th:

June 4th:

May 31st:

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?

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:

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:

March 6th - 26th:

March 5th:

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 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 8th:

February 1st:

January 22nd - 29th:

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:

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:

December 11th:

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!
  • 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:

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:

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:

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 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