Winter Session Week 3

Kindergarten Spanish:
Continuing our discussion of weather and seasons, this week we focused on animals in invierno and different ways they adapt when hace frio-some migrate, some store extra food or grow thicker coats, and some hibernate. We read A Silly Snowy Day, by Michael Coleman, about a tortoise who wants to experience invierno instead of hibernating, and we then pretended we were hibernating with our Buenas Noches game (sort of like thumbs up, 7 up game you might remember from your elementary days!)A nieve coloring sheet and some nieve games (Donde esta la nieve?) finished up our lesson.

B1-2 Technology:
After our keyboarding practice with Type to Learn, Jr, students watched a silly Tumblebook called Martin MacGregor's Snowman. Next, we found our Snowman stories in our folders and learned how to add and resize clipart. Any extra time was spent on Education City.

3-4 Technology:
Keyboarding with Type to Learn to start, and then a discussion about what it means to "surf" the web-we learned how links are what make web pages interactive and give the reader control over where they want to go, "surfing" one place to the next. We visited the homepage for the National Gallery of Art and decided which links would be used to see if the museum was open Thursdays, how much tickets cost, and what artists are featured. Without hyperlinks, a web page would be jumbled and unorganized-like a collage. We went to ngakids.gov and played around with collage machine 2. The students made some great collages-try at home so they can be printed- before creating (on paper) their own homepage for a website which includes at least 4 links. Look for these next week in Friday folders.