We had our first experience with Mac laptops in the classroom today. The children were thrilled – and so was their teacher. They did a marvelous job following directions and helping each other. We plan to include one hour of laptop exploration each week. That way we can visit a few different programs online, as well as explore installed software. This week we used the program This Is Sand. It’s fun and easy so the children found success right away. Check out a short video of the children using the program.

Intro to Macs Oct 09 from gail poulin on Vimeo.

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I have changed the posting date/time on it so it could go out to subscribers once again. Blogging presents new challenges all the time and this one was a doozy. I learned how to compress the pictures in a file before converting to pdf. In the past, my posts have converted with far greater ease but this one had 6 pages of graphics and that was too much for the usual methods.  To be on the safe side, I recommend that you update your own Adobe Reader and browsers. A couple of the links within the newsletter are no longer operational but the text or screen captures may provide the web addresses if you want to know more.

Here are some of the smiling faces who will star in this years class. I was able to speak with almost all of the children this week and it sounds like everyone is eager for the first day. Some children do not have a photo in the collage as they missed our visitation day in May for one reason or another. Don’t worry, I will be taking lots of pics this year.