First Few Weeks of School!! The Plan !!!

Isaiah 43:18-19a NIV
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?"

Welcome Back Parents & Students!! The first thing your child will notice when they walk into the Computer Lab are the new computers. We have moved to the Mac computers. This will bring automatic excitement!! They will be given an online activity for an introduction of the Mac but before we do that we will review the Class Rules. Most of your children have had me before so this should be a review.

Rules:

1. No talking when the teacher is talking
2. No talking when another student is talking
3. No talking when we are praying
4. If you want to say something you may raise your hand so everyone will hear you
5. If you need to leave your seat you must ask for permission unless we are doing projects

The next thing we will go over is the fact that as 4th graders they will be assigned their own user name and password. I will send home an Acceptable Use Guideline that we have reviewed in class. They will be required to return it by September 2, 2011 after you have reviewed it with them and both have signed it.

Parents could you reinforce the use of proper passwords with the guidelines below? 

Protect YourPassword

 ( taken from http://www.netsmartz.org)

• A password is private
• Never tell your password to anyone
• Don't use something obvious( like  your name, address, phone number or date of birth.)
• Make up something unique 

So this is how we will start the class- They will be so excited about the Macs: Wait until I tell them they will be blogging - SHH !! Don't tell the secret :)