Saturday, February 25, 2012

Winter Session Week 9

B1-2 Technology:


1. Practice your keyboarding with Marcelino's Letters
2. Watch the video clip above from 4:10-8:56. The Cat in the Hat wears many hats. Find the Cat document in your folder and draw a new hat for the cat.
3. Play some Cat in the Hat games and watch some Video Clips from the pbskids show.
4.Are you getting excited for the Lorax movie? Check out the official site. Here are some more Lorax games
5. Visit Seussville and check out the games and video clips.

3-4 Technology:



What is your favorite Dr. Seuss book?



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1. Go to 10fastfingers and take the typing speed test. Record the results in your folder. Play some other keyboarding games until everyone is finished.
2. Open the Cat in the Hat document in your folder. Make at least 3 different hats, saving them as cat1, cat2, cat3, etc. Use Picasion to make an animated gif image and embed it on your blog.
3. Check out the Lorax movie site and Seussville.
4. Read across America Week is not just about Dr. Seuss! You can play some other games from popular books here and here.
5. How about Tumblebooks or Tumblereaders?

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Winter Session Week 8

B1-2 Technology:
1. Tux Typing Comet Zap
2. Let's talk about our solar system!
3. The planets move at different rates around the sun. One revolution is a year. Earth takes 365 days to revolve around the sun, but Mercury takes only 88 days. Neptune, the farthest planet from the sun, takes almost 165 years to go around the sun! Click here to see. how old you are on other planets. Check out some cool solar system pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope.
4. Planet pop-up
5. Roving on Mars
6. Rocket Builder
7. Kerpoof Spell a Picture- can you spell the planets?

3-4 Technology:
1. Type to Learn
2. 
3. Ten Things to Bring to a Desert Island
          Open a new Word document and center your title
          Start your numbered list on the left-format bullets and numbering
          Highlight your words and select Table, Sort to put your things in alphabetical order
          Add a page border of palm trees by going to Format, Borders and Shading, page border, art-pick 
                 a 20 pt. width. Save document in your folder
4. Complete all the missions in Surfswell Island

Friday, February 10, 2012

Winter Session Week 7

B1-2 Technology:
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2. Catch some hearts
3. Check out some hearts in nature
4. Let's practice copying and pasting! We will use image chef word mosaic and candy heart maker to make some hearts that we will copy and paste onto a word document.

3-4 Technology:
http://www.aduckinherpond.com/2012/02/ode-to-pbj-and-how-i-love-thee/

1. Type to Learn
3. Let's brainstorm some pairs that belong together like macaroni and cheese, hot dogs and buns, etc. Use magic widgets to write a love letter or love note from one to the other and then embed the note on your kidblog. Feel free to decorate with some animated hearts!





MySpace Love Note


4. Play some valentine games  here,  here, or here

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Winter Session Week 6

B1-2 Technology:
2. Things I love! We will make a 6 slide powerpoint-you pick the font, clip art, and slide transitions.
3. If you finish early, play some winter and Valentines Day games:

3-4 Technology:
1. Type to Learn
2. Use your biography research to make a Biocube at Read Write Think