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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The RJR/Nabisco Twenty-first Century Schools project at the elementary school is more prominent than ever this year as the year begins with the first classroom fully equipped with computers.
Fourth grade teacher Lelo Wolfe’s room has the county’s first computer classroom with 24 computers, a network server and a printer. The computers are built into the desks in the room so the desks can also be used for book, and pencil and paper work. The computers that were in the room last year have been moved into the other two fourthgrade classrooms, and the three classrooms all have air conditioning.
The school also has ordered new boards to replace the chalkboards in the fourth grade rooms. The new boards will use washable colored markers. When the computers were cleaned over the summer, dust from outside and from chalk was found in the disk drives. The air conditioning and new boards are expected to reduce dust.
All fourth graders will use the computer classroom for mathematics and keyboarding classes. The RJR/Nabisco team is working to complete programming for fourth-grade math and then will begin programming for language arts.
The elementary school library also received air conditioning over the summer. In addition librarian Aney Massie has computer software to develop a computerized catalogue and check out system. Principal David Smith said he expects the process of developing the catalog to take most of this school year, so the system will be ready for use at the start of the 1994-95 school year.
The software is similar to that ; ufced by high school librarian Beth Scott, so once the system is operating the schools will be able to share book^and other materials. . Another innovation this year has already happened. Last Wednesday evening incoming kindergarten children and their parents were invited to the first Kindergarten Orientation. Children and parents got to meet the teachers, ride a school bus and learn about classroom and bus procedures without the busyness of ' fee day or the first day of school. •;* “We had a wonderful turnout,” ’ Assistant Principal Raye Tupper ■ said. The children and their parents filled three buses for a trial bus run to Washington and back. They learned about the special care taken of the young children to make certain they ride the right bus. Mrs. Tupper said she felt certain the
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