week 13 - Dec 11

Ms. Barr's, Ms. Nels', Ms. Hilton's, Ms. Billings', and Ms. Ruff's classes will work on the Let's Go Learn math assessments.

Ms. Shastri's class will work on their writing projects.

Kindergarten classes will do phonics activities with short vowels in Starfall:

Starfall - Learn to Read

Ms. Nichols's class will practice in Typing Web.

Week 12 - Dec 4

Ms. Barr's class will start the Lets Go Learn assessments
Ms. Nels' class will do calendar and holiday activities in Starfall.
Ms. Shastri's class will practice typing and continue their bird research.
Kindergarten classes will practice adding to 10 in Harcourt Math:

Great Day for Number lines

Adding Bricks

Seashell Search

Connect the Dots: 5 and 10

Subtraction: Day at the Beach

Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billings' classes will work on the Let's Go Learn assessments.

week 11 - November 26

Ms. Barr's class will learn about beetles!

Fun Beetle Facts for Kids

NatGeo: Dung Beetles

NatGeo: Hercules Beetle Battle

NatGeo: Trilobyte Beetle

Ms. Nels' class will finish the Let's Go Learn assessments

Ms. Shastri's class will continue their research on birds.
Kindergarten classes will do activities in Starfall with short A sounds.

The Letter A and the A Song in: ABC 
Zac the Rat story and games in Learn to Read

Ms. Hilton's class will continue practice of double digit subtraction.

Subtraction: Mental Math

Subtraction: Pencil and Paper

week 10 - Nov 20

Ms. Barr's class will practice making pictures in Microsoft paint. We're looking forward to doing some writing and illustrating in the near future!

Ms. Nels' class will finish the Let's Go Learn assessments and play phonics games.

Ms. Shastri's class will work on their bird research in the following sites:

Cornell Lab: All About Birds

San Diego Zoo: Birds

Nat Geo: Quetzal

Audubon: Birds

Week 9 - Nov 13

All third through sixth graders will finish the interim math assessments.

Ms. Barr's class will play addition and subtraction games in Sheppard Math:

Sheppard Math: Basic Operations

Ms. Nels' class will finish the Let's Go Learn reading assessments.

Let's Go Learn

Kindergartners will do phonics games in Starfall

Ms. Hilton's class will practice subtraction with regrouping in AAAMath:

Subtraction: Mental Math
Subtraction: with pencil and paper

Ms. Billing's class will study butterflies:

Nat Geo: Butterfly photos

Kid Zone: Monarch butterfly

Fun Butterfly Facts: video
PBS: Migration video

week 8 - Nov 6

Kindergarten classes will practice math skills:

Harcourt: Counting by Fives and Tens

Harcourt: Connect by Five and Ten

Harcourt: Adding Bricks

Sheppard: Count 1 to 20

Ms. Barr's class will read fiction and non-fiction in Starfall.
Ms. Nels' class will do the Let's Go Learn reading assessments.

week 7 - Oct 23

Ms. Barr's class will practice double digit addition in AAAMath and place value in Sheppard Math.

AAAMath: Addition

Sheppard: Fruit Splat Place Value

Ms. Shastri's class will study trees:

How to Identify Deciduous Trees by Their Leaf

Identify Coniferous Trees With Needles

Ms. Nels' class will practice addition and subtraction facts in Sheppard Math:

Bugabaloo Addition

Subtraction Harvest

Basic Operations (Fruit Splat, Pop-Up Math)

Kindergartners will practice:

Name That Number
Count to 10
Count to 20
Adding Bricks

Ms. Hilton's class will read stories in Starfall:

Starfall: I'm Reading!

Ms. Billings' class will finish the Let's Go Learn assessments.

Ms. Nichols' class will continue their Miwok research:

Native American Facts for Kids: Miwok

week 6 - Oct 16

Ms. Barr's class will look at woodland animals:

Woodland Habitat

All About Forest Animals

Outdoor Magazine:  Woodland Animals

Ms. Nels's class will practice reading in Starfall.

Ms. Shastri's class will learn about trees.

Learn About Leaves

Beginner's Guide to Tree Identification

Tree Leaf Key

Ms. Hilton's class will learn about California landforms and practice addition facts:

Geography of California

AAAMath: Addition Facts

Ms. Nichols' class will start research on the Miwoks:

Miwok Tribe Facts
California Indians: Miwoks
Miwok (Native Americans of California)
Miwok Tribe: History and Culture

Week 5 - Oct 9

Kindergarten classes will play phonics games with beginning and ending sounds in Starfall.

Starfall: Learn to Read

Ms. Barr's class will read poetry and riddles in Starfall.

Starfall: It's Fun to Read!

Ms. Nels' class will practice subtraction facts:

Sheppard Math: Pearl Search

Sheppard Math: Fruit Splat

Week 4 - Oct 2

Ms. Hilton's class will practice skip counting in AAAMath

AAAMath: skip counting

Ms. Billings' class will practice addition facts in AAAMath

AAAMath: addition facts

Kindergarten classes will do counting games in Harcourt Math (chapters 4 and 5)

Harcourt Math: Kindergarten

Ms. Barr's class will practice adding three numbers and skip counting in AAAMath:

adding 3 one digit numbers

adding 3 two digit numbers

skip counting  

Ms. Shastri's and Ms. Nichols' classes will practice in Typing Web.

Ms. Nels class will practice subtraction facts in Sheppard Math:

Sheppard Math: Pearl Search

Ms. Ruff's class will continue the Let's Go Learn math assessments.

Ms. Cason's class will do phonics practice in Starfall.

Third graders will take the student technology survey:

http://bit.ly/bbHILLTOP

week 3 - Sept 25

Students will complete any unfinished reading assessments.

Ms. Barr's and Ms. Hilton's classes will do addition practice in AAAMath:

AAAMath: addition facts

Ms. Nels' class will practice phonic and reading in Starfall:

Starfall: Learn to Read

Ms. Shastri's and Ms. Nichols' classes will do keyboard practice in Typing Web

Kindergarten classes will do counting games in Harcourt Math:

Harcourt Math: Grade K

Ms. Ruff''s class will finish the STAR reading assessments and start the Let's Go Learn math assessments.

Ms. Billings' class will practice skip counting and addition facts:

Harcourt: grade 1 (chapter 12)

easier version Harcourt grade 2

AAAMath: addition facts

week 2 - Sept 18

Most 1st through 3rd classes will complete the STAR reading assessments.

Ms. Barr's class will learn to navigate the computer lab web page and play addition and subtraction games in Harcourt.
Harcourt Math: second grade
Ms. Shastri's class will learn to log in on the tablets in their classroom!
Kindergarten students will practice mouse skills in the alphabet activities in Starfall.

Starfall: ABC alphabet

Ms. Hilton's class will play addition and subtraction games in FunBrain:

Tic Tac Toe Squares

Math Baseball

Week 1 - Sept 11

WELCOME BACK!

K-3 computer lab starts this week.
All first through third grade classes will be taking the STAR reading assessments in the lab.
Kindergarten students will play counting games as mouse practice.

Sheppard Early Math

May 30

Last week of computer lab!

Upper grade classes will take the Bryte Bytes survey and have some fun!

BryteByte survey

Third grade classes will practice typing and play math games.
Second grade classes will have free choice in Sheppard Math.
First grade classes will have free choice in Starfall.

May 22

Most classes will complete the STAR reading assessments.

Ms. Nels' class will practice addition facts in AAAMath.

AAA Math addition facts

Mrs. McKnight's class will do math practice in Sheppard Math.

Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billings' classes will go to the (virtual) zoo!

San Diego Zoo

San Francisco Zoo

Ms. Koenig's class will learn about quadrilaterals:

Khan Academy: 4th grade geometry

May 17 - back to normal!

Regular computer classes resume this week.

Most classes will be doing their STAR reading assessments.

Ms. Nichols' and Mrs. McKnight's classes will be doing math practice in Sheppard.

May 1 - 12

NO REGULAR COMPUTER LAB CLASSES

THIRD GRADERS WILL BE TESTING IN THE LAB.

SEE YOU IN  TWO WEEKS!

Week 27 - April 25

Kindergarteners come to the lab and will read long vowel stories in Starfall.

Ms. Cason's class will do reading activities in Starfall.
Ms. Link's class will do reading comprehension activities:

Nussbaum Reading  Comprehension

Third grade classes will do SBAC practice and training tests.

Mr. Baum's class will practice typing and work on math practice in Khan Academy.

Mr. Aiken's class will work on their cause and effect writing assignment.

Ms. Gray's class will finish the research for their writing project and type up poetry.

Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billings' classes will practice time and money skills:

Sheppard Math: Time and Money

Ms. Koenig's class will practice math skills in Khan Academy:

Khan Academy: 4th grade geometry

Week 26 - April 18

Mrs. Link's class will practice place values:

Sheppard: Fruit Splat Place Value

Sheppard: Expanded Place Value

AAA Math 3 digits: Place Values and  Specific Place Values

AAA Math 6 digits: Place Values and Specific Place Values

Ms. Cason's class will do reading activities in Starfall.

Mr. Baum's class will do the SBAC training tests on the tablets.

Ms. Nels' class will read folk tales in Starfall.

Ms. Nichols' and Mrs. McKnight's classes will do the SBAC  ELA practice test.

Ms. Gray's class will complete their shoe project.

Mr. Aiken's class will practice math facts in Khan Academy.

Ms. Shastri's class will practice calculating area in: Khan Academy

Decompose Figures to Find Area

Week 25 - April 11

Kindergarten classes come to the lab this week.
 Rooms 2 and 3 will practice subtraction in Sheppard:

Subtraction Harvest
Fruit Splat

Pearl Search (level 1)

Harcourt: Fireflies
Harcourt: Busy Bees

Room 1 will practice money in Sheppard: Fruit Splat Coins
Ms. Cason's class will do phonics activities in Starfall.

Mrs. Link's class will practice making change in FunBrain.

FunBrain: Changemaker

Mr. Baum's class will present their country report power points and work on their vocabulary writing project.
Ms. Nichols' and Mrs. McKnight's classes will do the SBAC math practice test.
Ms. Shastri's class will do the SBAC Math training test.
Ms. Nel's class will practice subtraction facts in Sheppard Math:

Subtraction Harvest

Pearl Search

Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billings' classes will practice telling time and elapsed time:

AAAMath:  Time

Week 24 - March 28

Kindergarten classes come to the lab this week.

Harcourt Math: ten frames

Harcourt Math: tally marks

FactMonster Flashcards: subtraction, level 1

Ms. Cason's class will finish the Let's Go Learn reading assessments.
Ms. Link's class will illustrate their spring poems.
Mr. Baum's class will finish their power points for their country reports. Student who are done will do a scavenger hunt about daylight savings.
Ms. Nel's class will read nonfiction in Starfall.

Starfall: Fiction and Non-fiction

Ms. Nichols' and Mrs. McKnight's classes will practice typing.
Mr. Aiken's class will work on a writing assignment.

Mr. O'Connor's class will work on fractions in Sheppard Math:

Sheppard Fractions

Week 23 - March 21

No kindergarten classes this week.

Ms. Cason's class will complete the Let's Go Learn assessments.
Mrs. Link's class will type their spring poems.
Mrs. McKnight's and Ms. Nichols' classes will practice fractions:

Sheppard: fractions

Ms. Nels' class will practice addition and subtractions facts:

FunBrain: Tic Tac Toe
FunBrain: Math Baseball

Mr. Baum's class will research their birthdays and start presenting their country powerpoints.

Mr. Aiken's class will virtually visit the SF Asian Art Museum

Room 12 students will practice multiplication facts in Sheppard:

Picnic Multiplication
Fruit Splat
Pop-Up Math

Ms. Billings' and Ms. Hilton's class will start researching rain forest animals:

Active  Wild: Rain Forest Animals

Week 22 - March 14

Kindergarten classes come to the lab this week.
Sixth graders are off at camp!

Ms. Cason's class will do the reading assessment in Let's Go Learn.
Ms. Link's class will practice making change in FunBrain: Changemaker.

Ms. Nichols' and Mrs. McKnight's classes will practice fractions in Sheppard Math

Sheppard fraction games

Ms. Nels' class will practice telling time in the following activities:

Harcourt: hour and half-hour

Harcourt: quarter-hour and 5 minutes

AAA Math:  Time

Sheppard Math: time

Ms. Hilton's and Ms Billings' class will start their Rainforest project in Rainforest Alliance.

Rainforest Alliance: Virtual Rainforest Visits

Mr. Aiken's fifth graders will practice volume in;

Sheppard Math - volume 

Harcourt: Finding volume

Week 21 - March 6

No kindergarten classes this week.

Ms. Cason's class will do phonics activities in Starfall.
Mrs. Link's class will do money activities in Sheppard:
Mr. Baum's class will finish their power points.
Fifth graders in Mr. Aiken's and Ms. Gray's classes will take the Healthy Kids Survey.
Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billings' classes will practice making change in FunBrain:

FunBrain: Change maker

Week 20 - Feb 28

Thursday is Read Across America Day!
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

You can find great activities at Seussville.

Second graders will start working on money in Harcourt and Sheppard Math:

Comparing Money

Let's Compare

Sheppard: Fruit Splat

Sheppard: Enough Money

Sheppard: Compare Money

Week 19 - Feb 12

Kindergarten classes come to the lab this week.

Ms. Nichols' class will work on their biome projects.
Mr. Aiken's class will work on their first draft of their writing project.
Ms. Gray's class will work on their state reports.
Ms. Cason's class will complete the Let's Go Learn math assessments.
Mrs. Link's class will practice double digit subtraction in AAAMath.

Week 18 - Feb 5

No kindergarten classes this week.

Mrs. McKnight's and Ms. Nichols' classes will start their biome research.
First grade classes will complete any unfinished assessments.
Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billings' classes will study lunar new year:

Chinese New Year - for kids!

Mr. Baum's class will so research for their Time Bandits project.
Mr. Aiken's class will work on their sonnets.
Ms. Koenig's class will finish their essays.

Week 18 - Jan 30

Students will complete any unfinished STAR reading assessments.

Third through sixth grade students will do the SBAC practice test, either in the classroom or in the lab. This is helping the District test out the network capacity and familiarizing students with the format.

SBAC practice tests can be found here: caaspp.org

Ms. Link's class will finish illustrating their winter poems.

Week 17 - Jan 23

All classes will be completing the STAR reading assessments this week.

Week 16 - Jan 16

Kindergarten classes come to the lab this week. They will do the STAR early phonics assessment.

Ms. Cason's class will do reading activities in Starfall.
Mrs. Link's class will finish typing their winter poems and start their illustrations.
Mr. Baum's class will work on their vocabulary sentences and their country powerpoints.
Ms. Nichols' class will do fraction activities in Harcourt Math.

1. Bowling for Fractions

2. Fraction Race
3. Sheppard Math: Fractions

Mr. Aiken's and Ms. Gray's classes will do an internet scavenger hunt about presidential inaugurations.
Ms. Nel's class will do math practice in Harcourt.
Ms. Billings',  Ms. Hilton's, and Ms. Koenig's classes will do punctuation edits in Sentence Surgeon.

Ms. Malone's, Ms. Ruff's, and Mrs. McKnight's classes will start the STAR reading assessments.

week 15 - Jan 9

Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billings' classes will learn about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

National Geographic: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ms. Link's class will start their winter poems.

Ms. Cason's and Ms. Nels' classes will do phonics activities in Starfall.

All third through sixth grade classes will do the BrightBytes tech survey.

Week 14 - Jan 3

Happy New Year!

Kindergarten classes come to the lab this week. They will read stories in Starfall with the short A sound.

Ms. Cason's class will do phonics activities in Starfall.
Ms. Link's class will do practice capitalization and punctuation in Sentence Surgeon.
Ms. Hilton's and Ms. Billng's classes will practice regrouping in AAAMath.
Mrs. McKnight's class will study landforms.

Mr. Baum's class will do word processing with their vocabulary words.
Mr. O'Connors' class will work on their health project.
Ms. Malone's and Ms. Tobin's classes will work on their writing projects.