Sharing Internet Sites using del.icio.us

How many times have you saved a website on Favorites or Bookmarks on your computer?

Have you ever wished you could see your bookmarks when you were using a different computer?

Social Bookmarking sites like del.icio.us allow you to do this.

Many teachers and classrooms are using del.icio.us to share valueable web sites.

Here you can get the the Grade 5 collection of websites by typing in del.icio.us/stacs5
del.icio.us/stacs5

Engineering Day Challenge

Over thirty middle school students are competing in UVM's Annual Engineering Week Activities.

First Graders Story Mapping

First Grade students from Ms. Ficken and Ms. Morton's class are writing narratives using Story Board Mapper
from Read Write Think.

Working With Words

Our students are working with words in many different ways in order to build their literacy skills. Along with the many reference books available in our library and classrooms, there are also many online versions of dictionaries, thesaraus, and other tools to help us work with words.

Check out the list of some of these online tools to help you build your mastery of words.

St. Albans City School awarded Mobil Grant

St. Albans City School has received a $500 grant from the ExxonMobile Educational Alliance program to support the Middle School Classroom News Projects. Classrooms will create a classroom news team to contribute to a school wide student news blog. Each classroom news team will be equipped with digital cameras to capture pictures and videos of events happening in each classroom.

"St. Albans City School works hard to make learning interseting and fun," said Joanne Faureau, "As a Mobil retailer, I am proud to help young people of the St. Albans Community.". Ms. Faureau is pictured presenting the grant award to Tech Savvy Student Leaders, Dylan Baranik, and Alexandra Bean, and their advisor Ms. deLaBruere.

The Exxon Mobile Educational Alliance program is designed to provide Mobile retailers with an opportunity to invest in the future of their communities through educational grants to neihborhood schools. Exxon Mobil believes that, as members of the community, local retailers are best qualifeid to work with local educators to help identify schools and program most in need of support.

Building Keyboarding Skills

To prepare our students for success, we are starting to teach keyboarding skills in Grade 3. Every Grade 3 students gets 15 hours of formal keyboarding instruction using Type to Learn 3. They continue to work within their classroom environments until they master the alphabet.

During Grade 4, the students continue to build keyboarding speed and accuracy. A list of website for additional practice and free software is available for students to get additional practice at home.

Check out these tips for building good keyboarding technique


and watch a video of a middle school student who has successfully mastered the art of keyboarding.

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Fall Open House 2007

The Fall Open House was a big success as you can see from these videos created by our tech savvy students.

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More Open House Videos:

http://blip.tv/file/405031

http://blip.tv/file/405030

http://blip.tv/file/399063

http://blip.tv/file/405028