Lincoln Library Media Center

The first graders meet once a week in the computer lab to do all sorts of fun technology projects!  Here are some examples…

Over the last few weeks, all of the first graders have been learning about Winter.  We decided to put some of what we learned onto Power Point slides!  See our work here: In Winter (Genz) & In Winter (Koehler)

There has been a LOT going on at Lincoln this year!! Want to see some examples of our work?  Read on…

Kindergarten: The Kindergarten students work in the computer lab with their teachers and Mrs. Yonts every week! We’ve made huge progress!  One of our favorite projects was creating a “Name Collage” using Pixie.  In order to do this project, students had to learn how to captialize letters (shift), highlight, change font (size, color, style), open, and save a document.  It was a lot of work, but the students did well.  Here are a few examples: 

A few of the fifth grade students have been meeting to create some auxilliary technology projects. One of the projects was to find some fun facts about a country using the online database CULTUREGRAMS, and then write a persuasive speech about why people would like to vacation there.  They decided to ‘deliver’ the speeches using an avatar created through VOKI.  Want to see and hear their work? Play the vokis below!

Are you looking for a good book? Would you like to see which books the Lincoln Library Media Center owns?  Visit the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) here: http://destiny-web.gbaps.org/

Looking for a fun (and education) activity for your students during this ghoulish season?  Here are a few fun (an interactive) links for kids to enjoy:

1. Build OR Carve A Pumpkin: www.abcya.com

2. Build a Pumpkin while learning letters and sounds: www.starfall.com

3. Mrs. Cassidy’s Web Page (Halloween Activities): http://www.teachersfirst.com/getsource.cfm?id=8844

4. Halloween Matching Game: http://think-bank.com/iwb/flash/halloweenpairs.html

5. PBS Halloween Collection: http://pbskids.org/halloween/

6. Halloween, Halloween, What do you see? http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/i/impatica/hauntedhouse.html

7. Interactive Halloween Games: http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/games_for_smart_boards/

Don’t forget! While techology-based games are great, the LMC has LOTS of fun Halloween books!  Some of the kids’ favorites include:

Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman

The Bumpy Little Pumpkin by Margery Cuyler

The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons

Kitten in the Candy Corn by Ben Baglio

My Dog’s a Scaredy-Cat by Henry Winkler

Goosebumps books by R.L. Stine

Grumpy Pumpkins by Judy Delton

Little Witch’s Big Night by Deborah Hautzig

…And many more!