Sorry I haven't put in an entry in a while. This past month we've been working on spreadsheets. We did an introduction to spreadsheets where we reviewed some terms like column, row, cell, sheet, etc. We also talked about how spreadsheets are used to calculate, sorte, and graph.
CALCULATING - We did an activity where the kids solved math problems from the workbook and then verified their answers using a spreadsheet.
SORTING - The students entered their word study words and sorted them alphabetically. This is something they do weekly for class, but they all agreed it was much faster on the computer. Then they had some fun sorting compound words, where the first part of the compound word was in one column and the second part was in another. They would only sort one column. It was fun to see what kind of silly compound words they could create.
CALCULATING - We did an activity where the kids solved math problems from the workbook and then verified their answers using a spreadsheet.
SORTING - The students entered their word study words and sorted them alphabetically. This is something they do weekly for class, but they all agreed it was much faster on the computer. Then they had some fun sorting compound words, where the first part of the compound word was in one column and the second part was in another. They would only sort one column. It was fun to see what kind of silly compound words they could create.