Overview of Computer Classes
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Kraybill Campus has a computer lab of 28 desktop computers, as well as computers in the media center. Each elementary classroom has up to 4 computers for student use. Our teachers all have laptops connecting to our wireless network for easy access to technology.
Students in grades 3-8 receive formal computer instruction in the lab for 40 minutes each week. In these classes, students are taught a wide variety of basic computer skills in accordance with national and state standards. Students begin keyboarding "by touch" in in third grade. To reinforce the use of technology as a tool, the computer teacher works with the classroom teacher to integrate the computer skills being taught in the lab with what is being learned in the regular classroom subjects. Teachers also use laptops and projectors for whole class instruction and bring classes to the lab to work on extra projects.
Middle school Writer's Workshop classes are held in the lab each week, where students compose and edit all creative writing assignments. Middle school students have opportunities to use technology through the computer elective, by producing the yearbook online, and through the middle school Challenge Program, which is technology-based. Students in grades 1-8 also use the online program, First in Math, to reinforce math skills.
Read what students are doing in Computer Classes (Grades 3-8) this year! Click HERE for the Kraybill Computer Wiki (formerly "Quarterly Progress Reports").