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Google Slide

Hello Students: Today you are going to make a slide for a class slide presentation using the photos we took in iPhoto.  Here are the steps you’ll need to make your slide: 1)           Sign onto your computer. 2)           Click on the  Google Classroom   hyperlink that will take you to the page to sign in. 3)       Sign into Google Classroom in the new tab. 4)           Open a new Slide Presentation . 5)           Name the slide presentation with your name. 6)           Choose a format for your slide. 7)         Copy and Paste your photo into your slide.   You can find it in your Google Classroom.  Click on the photo to open it and then right click to copy it and press Ctrl + v to paste it into your slide. 8)           Re-size your photo. 9)       In the text box below your photo, write your name and one thing you like to do. 10)       When you are finished, share your slide with me by sending it to:  salmaas@ps138school.com I will ass

Copy and Paste

Hello Students: Today you are going to practice copying and pasting text from a blog onto a WORD document. Click  here  to access the Check Your Writing blog. Highlight and right click the five rules of writing. Click “copy”. Open a new blank WORD document. Click the cursor and the page, right click and click “paste” Highlight all the text and change the font to point 12. Align the text to the left. Raise your hand to show me your work. Sign into your  Google Classroom  and complete the  Copy and Paste Reflection.

Christopher Columbus

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Hello Students: Today you will watch a movie and complete some activities in Brain Pop Jr.  about  Christopher Columbus. Click on this  link  to watch the movie and complete the quiz.  When you have finished the quiz and shown me your grade, click on "Write About It" and follow the instructions. Username: tfbrain Password:  tfbrain

Prodigy Math

Welcome Students! I will not be here today.  You will spend the period working on your math skills in Prodigy Math. Click on this  link  and sign in using your Google Classroom username and password. At the end of the session, log out of Google Classroom and shut down your computer. 

The First Inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere

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Hello Students: On Monday, October 14 th , we will have a day off from school to celebrate Columbus Day.  Columbus is credited with "discovering" America and yet there were people living here for thousands of years before that. Today you are gong to read about the first inhabitants of North America and answer some questions in a quiz in your Google Classroom. The first inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere were Native Americans. It is thought that they originally came from Asia (Siberia) by way of the Bering Strait about 40,000 years ago. The hunters and gatherers constantly walked south (away from the glaciers) in search of food.  One of the animals hunted were mammoths, a giant elephant-like animal They probably followed them over the land bridge shown on the map above and eventually got to what is now Canada, the United States and points south.. They stopped and settled in certain regions, perhaps, because they found a good geographic locat