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1st Grade

• Basic computer skills: caring for computers and appropriate use, internet safety, logins
• Basic skills of keyboarding using Typing Club: locating letters/symbols, hand/finger positions

2nd Grade

• Basic computer skills: caring for computers and appropriate use, internet safety, logins
• Keyboarding skills using Typing Club: emphasis on proper hand/finger positioning, increasing speed of typing
• Creating a personal school login and password
• Begin using Clever and Google Classroom

3rd Grade

• Basic computer skills: caring for computers and appropriate use, internet safety, logins
• Keyboarding skills using Typing Club: reinforcing proper hand/finger positioning, emphasis on speed of typing
• Use our personal school login/password to use the school computers
• Use Clever to get into websites
• Begin using Google apps (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail)
• Introduced to Google Classroom

4th Grade

• Basic computer skills: caring for computers and appropriate use, internet safety, logins
• Keyboarding skills using Typing Club: Review at the start of the year to reinforce skills learned in previous years
• Google Docs: opening documents, saving to different locations on computer, proper paragraph formatting, inserting and formatting pictures
• Google Slides Project: creating PowerPoints, basic formatting and presentation skills, research skills on internet, appropriate internet use and safety
• Google Sheets: opening spreadsheets, using calculations and formatting
• Gmail: Students learn how to compose, reply and forward emails.
• Use of green screens (videoing and editing using OpenShot)

5th Grade

• Basic computer skills: caring for computers and appropriate use, internet safety, logins
• Keyboarding skills using Typing Club: Review at the start of the year to reinforce skills learned in previous years
• Master basic understanding of Google Apps learned in the previous year.
• Master use of Google Classroom (turning in assignments and resubmitting assignments)
• Master use of Sycamore (locating missing assignments, check grades, sending PANs, viewing school calendar, etc)

(5th grade is only the 1st semester. They have Spanish 2nd semester.)