Mrs. Browning - third grade

Mrs. Browning

tbrowning@
dunlapcusd.net

Third grade
links | schedule | objectives | quarterly news

Learning Links:

3rd Grade Skill Builders - click on the learning activity assigned by your teacher.

Kidsplanet - List of Endangered Animals by region of the world.

Factmonster is used to learn facts about the U.S., math, science and other curricula.

Enchanted Learning for plants, U.S. states and many other class lessons.

Harcourt math series, the series we use at school, has games and activities which coordinate with what the students learn out of the book in school. Click on the chapter, then click the game or activity your child chooses to do within that chapter.

Wacky WebTales to compose mad libs on the web; great for parts of speech and typing practices.

Compound Words - Provides an alphabetized list of 2,276 compound words.

World Geography Knowledge - Test your knowledge of world geography. Click on an area of the map to start a quiz. 50 U.S. States - Test your U.S. geography knowledge by labeling all fifty states on this interactive map.

Simple machines have been used in many inventions. Check out MIT's Invention Dimension to learn about famous inventors and inventions.

Learn about the mystery of plant life at the U of I extension's Great Plant Escape

White House for Kids - great to resaerch our presidents and other White House information.

Schedule:

Wilder-Waite Ridgeview

3-P 3-F 3-O
3-B
3-S

Mon./Tues.
2:10-2:40

Mon./Wed.
2:10-2:40 Tues./Fri.
9:20-9:50
Mon./Fri.
9:50-10:20 Tues./Thurs.
8:50-9:20

Oct. - Finish language references, work on keyboarding projects

Objectives:

Wilder-Waite	Ridgeview
3-P	3-F	3-O	3-B	3-S
Mon./Tues. 2:10-2:40	Mon./Wed. 2:10-2:40	Tues./Fri. 9:20-9:50	Mon./Fri. 9:50-10:20	Tues./Thurs. 8:50-9:20

Learn the position of the keys on the keyboard, how to sit at the computer and how the fingers move to type the keys without looking.
Third grade gets an introduciton to word processing and slide presentation software to create a variety of documents for the classroom curricula.
Students in third grade will compose a cooperative, creative writing, three page book using authoring software.
List of software used:

Quarterly news:

Third grade students in District 323 recieve the great opportunity to learn touch typing. We spend each day in the computer lab during the first grading period on a variety of keyboarding practice. Students also practice using keyboard covers. They are encouraged to always use their fingers along the home row of the keyboard while trying to keep their eyes on the screen and the text from which they are copying.

Tips for improving keyboarding skills:

Currently, we are working on improving our keyboarding skills to prepare for computer classes at the middle school. You can help your children prepare by allowing them to practice at home. At DMS, much of the typing is longer than what we do at the grade school level. Find some articles that interest your child and have them type a copy of the article. Uses this sheet to help search for articles on the Internet. Web sites like PBS, A&E biography, and the History Channel are some good sources. Copy, paste and print only two paragraphs to type.

Remember:

his/her eyes should stay on the article and the screen, not on the keyboard
it is important to have their fingers on the home row position
type for only five to ten minute increments; these breaks help to refresh the typist
for extra practice, re-type (five times each) the words typed inaccurately the first time
look at the mistakes and try to figure out why they were made, i.e. reaching for r instead of t, then try to practice that skill with words that use those problematic letters
to figure how many words per minute were typed, do a word count (in Tools menu > Word Count). This will show how many characters with spaces were typed. Divide that number by 5, (every five characters typed is a "word" in words per minute), then divide that number by the number of minutes typed. For example, if a student typed 500 characters with spaces in two minutes, that would be 100 words divided by two = 50 wpm.

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last updated 2/5/08

3rd Grade Skill Builders - click on the learning activity assigned by your teacher.
Kidsplanet - List of Endangered Animals by region of the world.
Factmonster is used to learn facts about the U.S., math, science and other curricula.
Enchanted Learning for plants, U.S. states and many other class lessons.
Harcourt math series, the series we use at school, has games and activities which coordinate with what the students learn out of the book in school. Click on the chapter, then click the game or activity your child chooses to do within that chapter.
Wacky WebTales to compose mad libs on the web; great for parts of speech and typing practices.
Compound Words - Provides an alphabetized list of 2,276 compound words.
World Geography Knowledge - Test your knowledge of world geography. Click on an area of the map to start a quiz.	50 U.S. States - Test your U.S. geography knowledge by labeling all fifty states on this interactive map.
Simple machines have been used in many inventions. Check out MIT's Invention Dimension to learn about famous inventors and inventions.
Learn about the mystery of plant life at the U of I extension's Great Plant Escape
White House for Kids - great to resaerch our presidents and other White House information.