I meet with each class at Elizabeth Ide and Prairieview once a week. We do many different types of things in these classes.

At Prairieview, we have been working on computer skills for the last several weeks and will continue with this until about Thanksgiving. We began with work on Ultra-Key, our keyboarding program. This is a very important skill for students in this day and age. They will certainly need to be able to keyboard thoughout their schooling and almost everyone will need it in their jobs.

We will continue with some practice on looking up information online. This will focus on World Book Online, a very useful resource we have available in the district.

The Fifth graders are currently doing a tutorial on another useful resource we have called Inspiration. Fourth graders will soon be gathering information and pictures to put into a slide presentation. Third graders will prepare an illustrated Writer document.



At Elizabeth Ide, we concentrate more on story times. These early readers need exposure to lots of different books, covering different genres and different topics. We touch on Character Counts topics, holidays They get excited and then want to read, read, read. To encourage reading, parents can go a long way by reading to children, listening to children read to them, and reading in front of them. When they see that you value reading, they, too will value it.

Our second graders are learning to use our online catalog. We began with a presentation for the class as a group and are continuing with short private lessons for each child. You can look at our catalog by going to the district website, clicking on Elizabeth Ide, clicking on library, and then on IPAC.