St. John Fisher School Technology Center

Junior High

8^th graders are working on a TIME Magazine project.  They have replicated the cover of TIME in Powerpoint, with themselves featured at some point in the future, and reference to those future events that have earned them world-wide fame.  They will be interviewing one another to develop an “On The Cover” story/biography of the famous SJF Class of 2010 Graduate.  These completed projects will be on display at Just Desserts. 

The 8^th graders are also constructing a VERY LARGE periodic table of elements.  Each student is responsible for 2-3 element tiles that provide name, symbol, atomic number and average atomic mass, in addition to a visual depiction of the element.  These will be displayed in the junior high hallway. 

The 7^th graders are working on a powerpoint presentation for science, fine-tuning their research skills in their exploration of a range of science topics in categories including erosion, water, and the ocean.  They will also prepare an oral presentation, which will be given in science, and graded by Ms. Grabowski.

Sixth Grade

Students will be responsible to research a randomly selected European Country. Students will have three full class periods to compile their research. After which, they will create an eight-slide PowerPoint project on their chosen European country. The title of the project is “Can you guess my country?” Only on the eighth slide will students “give away” their answer. Other students watching the presentation will have to guess, given clues like surrounding countries or bodies of water, languages spoken, major cities, etc.

Fifth Grade

Students are studying Native Americans in Social Studies and we will be working on various Native American Projects.  Students will be learning the paint program and drawing an Indian Pottery piece.  We will then move into Microsoft Project and creating a post card from their exciting visit to an Indian reservation.  Finishing the lesson with a PowerPoint presentation of their knowledge of the Native Americans. 

Fourth Grade

The fourth graders are excited about finishing up their “All About Me” PowerPoint presentations.  They learned how to copy and paste pictures, animate slides and change slide speed. Students will begin to present projects by mid-October. The last class of the month will be spent playing Halloween-themed math games.

Third Grade

Students are busy learning to type papers using Microsoft Word; learning to change size and type of font, as well as how to double space their papers. We will use these skills for a Halloween project. Also, we will be working on a Christopher Columbus assignment before Columbus Day.  On Wednesdays, students continue to improve their typing skills.  We have moved from “home base row” to the top and bottom rows of the keyboard.

Second Grade

We will begin the month by working on an assignment about Christopher Columbus.  Move into learning new software that will enhance their Math Skills.  Finally, we move to Halloween, where we will explore great Halloween websites, draw pictures using Kid Pix and Kid Works, type a scary Halloween poem and play a lot of fun games.

First Grade

We will also begin the month by working on an assignment about Christopher Columbus.  And move right into celebrating Halloween drawing fun pictures using Kid Pix, exploring great Halloween websites and learning to insert text into our Kid Pix creations

Kindergarten

We will start off the month working with our Kid Pix program, learning how to use the stamps and stamping out our names and numbers 1-10.  We will move into working on a project to celebrate Columbus Day.  We will end the month with some exciting Halloween projects using Kid Pix. 

Preschool

What fun the preschoolers are having! Students are still becoming familiar with how to use the mouse confidently. Students will be making fall pumpkins, using the KidPix Program.

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