Technology+-+6

=Welcome to 6th grade tech class!=

We meet Monday through Thursday in the lab. Get ready to learn more about the computer and sharpen up your keyboarding skills! When you come to class, please bring:
 * notebook
 * pencil

**Cinquain Activity**
Look at these examples see how you might create your [|cinquain].

Thanksgiving
Take a tour of the first [|Thanksgiving]. Because it's a popular site you may have trouble getting it to load if there's a lot of traffic. If so, click on the link to download the activity.

**//A "Handful" of Thanksgiving//**

 * Get your hand outline [|here]
 * After you insert it into your document, add words or phrases to each finger and the palm

Some New Games!
Practice up on math, reading and all kinds of things at these new sites
 * [|Billy Bug]
 * [|Math Facts]
 * [|Museum Mania Treasure Hunt]
 * [|Sentence Parts]
 * [|Sentence Sort]
 * [|Punctuation Paintball]
 * [|Parts of Speech]

**[|Nimble Fingers typing exercises, flash cards & more!]**
Click on the pictures below to get your fingers warmed up for class!
 * [|More Typing Games!] || [[image:techlogo.gif width="144" height="147" align="center" link="http://www.freetypinggame.net/play.asp"]] || [[image:computer_clipart_keyboard.gif width="146" height="116" align="center" link="http://www.typing-lessons.org/"]] ||
 * || Play some typing games! || Limber up those fingers! ||

A safe place to search for pictures for your presentations || [|Animal Sounds] Free animal sounds that you may download for projects ||  || Shared photos from members all over the world || [|Animal Videos] National Geographic videos ||  || TeacherTube is education's answer to YouTube. Safe content. || [|More Animal Sounds] Partners in Rhyme wav files of animal sounds. ||  ||
 * < [|Pics 4 Learning]
 * < [|Flickr]
 * < [|Videos]