Your First Computer Lab Job in 2013!

Hi girls and boys!

Welcome back to the computer lab for our first time in 2013! Many of you worked very hard over the break and visited We Give Books. Some of you still need to complete your task. If you forget what it is, visit the post before this one. I would like you to finish the task by next Monday.

In the computer lab today, I would like you to think about your Where project. Please visit the posts earlier on the blog about the Where project and do some investigation about different products. Come up with a list of 2-4 items you might like to research. You will eventually select one.

Post a comment on this blog with your list!

Then, respond to at least two of your classmates' comments and give some feedback.

Finally, when you are done, you may visit freerice or We Give Books!

UPDATE: Check out this video and let me know what you think!

UPDATE #2: Wow! Tons of information about almost everything you can think of on How Products are Made!

We Give Books - Your Holiday Homework!

Have you read your five wegivebooks books yet? Remember, for every book you read, the Pearson Foundation donates a book to a child in need! Enjoy five books with our username: room209 and our password: steve and let me know in the comments below.

UPDATE: When you are done a book, the website will ask you to submit an email address. You can submit my email address: shauna.pollock@ocdsb.ca

If someone doesn't have Internet access on holiday, he or she can read five books during the first few weeks back!

Also, if you're feeling particularly philanthropic and have some time in the second week of school break, why not visit freerice?

Happy New Year to you all! I'm enjoying my holiday with my HUGE family in Florida, and look forward to sharing stories with you when I see you next week!

UPDATE #2: January 10th, 2013 - So far, our class has donated 33 books! Gabby, James, Camden, Fiona, Miguel and Thomas have each donated some books and I have gotten emails to let me know! Keep it up!

Today in the Lab...

Today in the computer lab...
Find Shauna's idea for our next news show. You MUST read the post, you MAY look at some of the links and videos, but you don't have to see them all. You MAY make a comment and say if you like that idea and why or why not. If you don't like the idea, please give us a new one.

Here are your choices:

1. Type up your DRC-W good copy
2. Type up your Nature Poem good copy
3. Explore the blog
4. Continue the conversation in the comments on the blog
5. Play the IXL Math games (you can play one per day)
6. Play a new game..... (Free Rice!)

You may do any of these choices in any combination today.

If you are playing Free Rice, leave a comment here and let us know which game you played and how much rice you earned!