They take the Native American symbols and use them to tell a story for their quilts. The students also create a database in ClarisWorks learning the fundamentals of defining fields, inserting new records and actually working with a database. Using Inspiration, the fourth graders brainstorm their thoughts and ideas as they write their own Cinderella stories. The students in 5th grade learn the fundamentals of a spreadsheet including spreadsheet vocabulary, and basic formulas to do computations. The students then graph their results in various forms.
Fifth grades are also busy using the Internet to obtain research for their State reports.
Computer class is very popular with all of our SSDS students.