Want to connect with Mrs. Levy?
Need help? Stop by room 121 before school, send me an email or send me a message through Canvas.
If you are having connectivity issues, please email Mrs. Levy at [email protected]
Need help? Stop by room 121 before school, send me an email or send me a message through Canvas.
If you are having connectivity issues, please email Mrs. Levy at [email protected]
What we are Learning
Digital Literacy is important - Students are expected to know fundamental computer and mouse skills as well as keyboarding skills to be successful in a digital world. Word processing skills, creating and understanding charts and graphs and presenting information using digital tools are all key elements to being successful. Mastery of touch-typing is not only necessary to be successful in school, but also to be competitive in future careers. Please encourage your students to work on their touch typing skills at home. Students in all grades will be expected to use a full size keyboard and a mouse during our class. Students will work on touch typing (using all of their fingers) and mouse skills each week. If your students are using computers at home, please help them out by reinforce their mouse and typing skills.
All students are using Canvas and our school website to access their technology lessons. Wake County will be switching to Canvas for all students beginning the 23-24 school year. Our students at LES have used Canvas with me this year so they are fully prepared for the change. We are encouraging all parents to connect to their student's Canvas account so you can follow their academic process throughout the years. Please contact Mrs. Levy if you want to connect to your student's Canvas account. Students access Canvas through their Wake Portal. From Canvas, our students can get to their practice typing accounts and their coding accounts.
We are currently finishing up our Internet Safety and Cyberbullying Lessons for all students. Students will be moving into reviewing Chromebook Skills throughout the rest of April and part of May. This is to make sure that students have the skills they need to efficiently use their Chromebooks. We will also be circling back to coding using Tynker and Code.org. To close out the school year, I will be going through our available summer resources with students so they have safe, reliable resources to use over the summer.
Kindergarten students continue to work on improving their skills on how to log into and use a desktop computer. We feel that students not only need to use a Chromebook, but they also need to know how to use a keyboard and mouse. Many high tech positions require the use of keyboards and a mouse, so we want to make sure our students have the required skills. We are also working on helping the students locate all of the letters on the keyboard. They are working on keyboarding programs that help them learn how to use the keyboard properly. Kindergarten students are taught the location of the letters in alphabetical order as opposed to "home row key location" that the older students are taught. To finish out the year, we are circling back to coding. Our students are using Code.org and Tynker to learn the basics of programming. For our younger students, that is simply the excitement of learning how to move objects around the screen. Student can access the coding sites through their Canvas accounts. All of our students at LES know how to access their Canvas accounts from their Wake Portal. If you want to work on coding with your kindergartner, they will need their Wakeid and their special picture on their cards. During our review, they all seemed to remember their picture. If they forget, please contact me for their login information.
1st and 2nd grade students continue to review computer skills. This includes learning to create a document, type their content and add safe, creative commons photos. They are also learning to drag and drop, double click, scroll and how to insert text into a text box. They are being taught to locate all of the letters on the keyboard and to use all of their fingers to type, not just their thumbs.
3rd, 4th & 5th grade students are finishing their Cyberbullying and Internet Safety lessons. The lessons that the older students receive are more in depth, so they take longer to go through. Students have learned different editing skills and safe search skills using our Wake County approved Google Apps for Education program. We have focused on design and editing as well as touch typing and mouse skills to prepare them for future careers.
All students are using Canvas and our school website to access their technology lessons. Wake County will be switching to Canvas for all students beginning the 23-24 school year. Our students at LES have used Canvas with me this year so they are fully prepared for the change. We are encouraging all parents to connect to their student's Canvas account so you can follow their academic process throughout the years. Please contact Mrs. Levy if you want to connect to your student's Canvas account. Students access Canvas through their Wake Portal. From Canvas, our students can get to their practice typing accounts and their coding accounts.
We are currently finishing up our Internet Safety and Cyberbullying Lessons for all students. Students will be moving into reviewing Chromebook Skills throughout the rest of April and part of May. This is to make sure that students have the skills they need to efficiently use their Chromebooks. We will also be circling back to coding using Tynker and Code.org. To close out the school year, I will be going through our available summer resources with students so they have safe, reliable resources to use over the summer.
Kindergarten students continue to work on improving their skills on how to log into and use a desktop computer. We feel that students not only need to use a Chromebook, but they also need to know how to use a keyboard and mouse. Many high tech positions require the use of keyboards and a mouse, so we want to make sure our students have the required skills. We are also working on helping the students locate all of the letters on the keyboard. They are working on keyboarding programs that help them learn how to use the keyboard properly. Kindergarten students are taught the location of the letters in alphabetical order as opposed to "home row key location" that the older students are taught. To finish out the year, we are circling back to coding. Our students are using Code.org and Tynker to learn the basics of programming. For our younger students, that is simply the excitement of learning how to move objects around the screen. Student can access the coding sites through their Canvas accounts. All of our students at LES know how to access their Canvas accounts from their Wake Portal. If you want to work on coding with your kindergartner, they will need their Wakeid and their special picture on their cards. During our review, they all seemed to remember their picture. If they forget, please contact me for their login information.
1st and 2nd grade students continue to review computer skills. This includes learning to create a document, type their content and add safe, creative commons photos. They are also learning to drag and drop, double click, scroll and how to insert text into a text box. They are being taught to locate all of the letters on the keyboard and to use all of their fingers to type, not just their thumbs.
3rd, 4th & 5th grade students are finishing their Cyberbullying and Internet Safety lessons. The lessons that the older students receive are more in depth, so they take longer to go through. Students have learned different editing skills and safe search skills using our Wake County approved Google Apps for Education program. We have focused on design and editing as well as touch typing and mouse skills to prepare them for future careers.
At Home resource reminders...
Please remember Online Safety and Privacy, now more than ever. Please be sure to check out all resources your students will be using first to make sure it is a good resource before you sign up. If in doubt, stick to the resources that are being provided by WCPSS and LES. A great resource for parents to checkout is Common Sense Media. This website has reviews of products, software and movies that you may find helpful. In addition, they offer many talking points regarding student safety and social media reviews for the do and don'ts of these sites. I strongly recommend that all parents check this site regularly for updates and helpful information.
Be Sure to check out the Internet Safety tab above for parent resources
Safe Technology use at home and at school.....
As we continue to work our way through our new normal daily routine, I am hoping that our students are sharing with you what they are learning in school. Please continue to remind your students to be safe online. Many students are becoming more "tech savvy" which also means they are putting themselves at a higher risk for predators. Our students are spending a lot more time online using chat rooms and social media sites that are not safe or approved for use by students under the age of 13. I have told our students, since we all seem to be spending more time online, so are the 'internet bad guys'. I tell our students that the "bad guys" have spent a lot of time trying to come up with ways to trick students into giving away personal information, so they need to be extra careful! We will begin our in depth Digital CItizenship and Internet Safety lessons in February. Expect your older students to come home with many questions and concerns. Hopefully our discussions will prompt an open dialogue with caregivers and students. A great resource for caregivers to look up information is Common Sense Media. Additional parent resources can be found under my Internet Safety tab
Safe Technology use at home and at school.....
As we continue to work our way through our new normal daily routine, I am hoping that our students are sharing with you what they are learning in school. Please continue to remind your students to be safe online. Many students are becoming more "tech savvy" which also means they are putting themselves at a higher risk for predators. Our students are spending a lot more time online using chat rooms and social media sites that are not safe or approved for use by students under the age of 13. I have told our students, since we all seem to be spending more time online, so are the 'internet bad guys'. I tell our students that the "bad guys" have spent a lot of time trying to come up with ways to trick students into giving away personal information, so they need to be extra careful! We will begin our in depth Digital CItizenship and Internet Safety lessons in February. Expect your older students to come home with many questions and concerns. Hopefully our discussions will prompt an open dialogue with caregivers and students. A great resource for caregivers to look up information is Common Sense Media. Additional parent resources can be found under my Internet Safety tab