Learning to use MS Word in grade 3

At Nha Be their teacher ignored my requests for collaboration and did not send her students with any pre-written material to work with.  So I found this great Lunch Room Mad-lib.  I did a quick review of the parts of speech that were featured in this Mad-lib and they set off writing.

Learning to use MS Word with Mad-libs at Nha Be

Great hand placement!

Learning about fonts and text features at Nha Be.

Hard at working writing their versions of the Mad-lib.

Some students got finished early so they added images (CC images) to help enhance their stories at Nha Be.

We saved our work to finish the next week, when I would see them again.  Fast-forward one week, just before the kids arrived I went in search of their stories and much to my surprise the IT department had deleted all of them!  The kids were so sad and frustrated when I told them what happened.  I reassured them it would not take as long this time because they were already familiar with the program!

Meanwhile over at the ES Campus we ran into some major technical difficulties with class 3A they go their titles in and we went to save and the network failed so we could not save.  We tried everything to save, but since the kids used their network log-ins there was nothing we could do.  So I improvised and let them test out the font features and they had fun doing this.  A week later I when I saw 3A again they we ready to go with Word.  They all remembered how to open the program and get a new blank document.  Many of them remembered how to select a font and center it!  I was so impressed with their focus and efforts especially since this was they day the Tet Holiday Break started!

Focused and working hard!

These kids did such an amazing job!

Publishing stories from their journals!