5^th Grade:

Are you being safe online? Today there are many things we need to be aware of when it comes to being safe in cyber space. Students in 5^th grade are currently learning about how they can apply these safety rules to stay safe online. Class discussions have been focusing on screen names, password protection, FBI internet safety tips, identity theft, cyber community, cyber predators, and the grooming process up to this point. We will continue our discussions over the next week where we will be talking about cyber bullying, netiquette, emoticons, flaming, spam, forwarding, phishing, cyber security, computer viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, intellectual property, copy write laws, and piracy. At the end of the unit students will be taking an open note quiz and creating an internet safety tip sign.

6^th Grade:

Students in 6^th grade are just finishing the Excel unit. In this unit, students have gained knowledge about how Excel can be used to organize, sort, graph and calculate information by creating a grade keeper and making several graphs. Students will be studying Microsoft Word over the next couple of weeks.

Have you or your kids ever saved a file on the computer, then been unable to find it? Hopefully, by the time your child completes their computer instruction this will no longer be an issue. Fifth graders are currently learning about desktop management. They are learning how to create a folder on the server for the school year, how to make subfolders for their classes, how to change the views of folders, how to save a document to the correct location on the server, how to move a file from one location on the server to another, how to rename a file and/or folder on the server and how to delete an unwanted item. Sixth graders just finished reviewing desktop management skills. As a result, they should no longer be looking through their entire hard drive trying to find a document saved that day, the week before, or even the year before. They are now venturing into the creation of spreadsheets.