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Published on 02/03/1997 All articles from this issue

2nd grade at Springer has Web page

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By Clyde Noel

Town Crier Staff Writer

Attention, users of the Internet: the children of Room 3 at Springer School welcome you.

The Los Altos School District elementary school, located on Rose Avenue in Mountain View, has its own home page.

Second grade teacher Katherine Gavarini helped put together the home page, along with several parents.

Gavarini's class activities go all over the world on the Internet. And the children get replies.

"It's Jelly Dawg here. I'm from Niagara Falls, N.Y., and I am a dee-jay on the morning radio program here on FM 101 - The Planet. I just wanted to drop you an e-mail and thank you for the Thanksgiving recipes, and I must say dinner at your homes must be very interesting. I also visited your art gallery."

From Microsoft Mail: "Just wanted to let you know we featured the Springer School Web site on our Great School Web Sites page, http://www.sccoe.K12.ca.us/disdest.htm. Congratulations to all concerned on a wonderful Web page. We thoroughly enjoyed having a look at it."

The Springer Home Page features recipes, children stories, old art and "Dino.html, the dinosaur." The 20 second-grade students in Gavarini's class all know how to work the Internet, she said.

Some comments from the class:

Shana McFadden says it's a TV show about yourself. "It's on the computer where everybody can see it. Anybody in the world with a computer can see what we do," she said.

Daniel Pade said you need the Internet with your computer. "That's a big thing with a lot of little things in it," he said.

Hytham Aly said he gets the Springer home page and watches from home what the class put on the Internet.

Sara Borden said, "For Red Ribbon Week, we made signs that said 'Don't Take Drugs,' and we put them on the Internet."

Gavarini feels children should experience desktop publishing. By putting work on the Internet, she can project the projects and articles done in class.

"Children get so excited they can't wait to see the creations on the computer at home or in the class," she said.

The class intends to write more articles about current interests and keep parents and others up-to-date with the latest classroom projects. Gavarini supervises and updates the page periodically to keep it current.

Springer School is accessible through Los Altos Online on the Internet: http://www.losaltosonline.com.