Winter Session Week 5

B1-2 Technology:

1. Play Spider Typer

2. Read Lewis Cardinal's First Winter

3. Let's check in on our monarchs that have migrated to Mexico? How do they survive the Winter?

4. Open your folder and find the Animals in Winter powerpoint. We will learn add clipart, format the font, and learn how to add slide transitions.
5. Play The Migration Game

3-4 Technology:

1. Type to Learn

2. Doodle for Google "If I could travel in time, I'd visit..."

You can check out some past doodles here and winners from last year's contest here.

3. Start your research for your biography project. How about using a kid friendly search engine like 

    Kid Rex? Don't forget to save a picture, get a quote, and copy the url of the websites you used. If you are looking for a famous Tennessean idea, check out this webpage.

Winter Session Week 4

B1-2 Technology:

1. Play Spider Typer to warm up our fingers!

2. Read 50 Below Zero by Robert Munsch

3. Check out our Fort Craig page at the Winter Wonderland Wiki and see our Winter movies.

4. Use the Little Explorers Online Weather Dictionary to search for the answers to our weather questions.

5. Play Snow Friends

3-4 Technology:

1. Type to Learn

2. Check out the Internet Search page of this blog. We will learn how to use Boolean logic and keywords to refine our searches, compare some different search engines, and play some search games.

Winter Session Week 3

B1-2 Technology:

1. What can you build with 100 snowballs?

2. Watch Brainpopjr. Winter

3. What is Winter like at our school today? Let's check the temperature at Weather Underground. Next, we will take our digital cameras outside and work in small groups taking pictures of winter images. We will put our best pictures together to upload to the Winter Wonderland Wiki project so we can see what winter looks like at schools across the country.
4. No snow? No problem! Make your own snow day flakes.

3-4 Technology:

1. Type to Learn

2. Since you are doing biography projects in your classrooms, let's check out the biography of a famous computer pioneer, Ada Lovelace, at Brainpop

3. Where would Ada Lovelace fit on the technology timeline? The timeline only goes to 1990. What new technology can you think of that has been invented since then?
4. Complete the following activities in order

What can you build with 100 snowballs? Write about it and save it in your folder.
Computer Part Pinball-find all 10 words

Goldburger to Go

Way of an idea 2

Winter Session Week 2

B1-2 Technology:

1. Play Pop the Bubbles

2. Read Martin McGregor's Snowman

3. What would your life be like if you were a snowman? Open the word document in your folder, complete the     sentences about things you eat, like, hate, etc and insert your photo into the snowman's head. We will print these to display in the hall.

4. Build a snowman , try a Snowman puzzle, and play Star Drops

3-4 Technology:

ImageChef.com Poetry Blender

1. Type to Learn

2. Find 3 winter images with creative commons licenses and save them in your folder. Use Poetry Blender to make a Winter story and embed the results on your kidblog. Check out some of the other things you can do and embed from ImageChef.

3. Play some winter games like Star Drops, Snowball toss, Downhill challenge, and Make a Flake.

Winter Session Week 1

B1-2 Technology:

1. Play Key Krusher

2. Did you get any new technology over the holidays? Click on the wall above and tell me about it!

3. Watch Brainpop New Year

4. Use Paint to show your New Year resolution. Make sure you add text-This year I ...  Save the picture in your folder as a jpeg.

5. Try New Year Blast

3-4 Technology:

1. Type to Learn

2. What are your New Year's resolutions? Resolve to laugh more! Click here to see why laughter is the best medicine.  It does not even have to be real laughter.

3. Make a 2 slide powerpoint of a joke and save it in your class joke folder (NOT YOUR OWN FOLDER) with your name-Lori'sjoke, for example. Don't forget to format text, background fill effects, and insert appropriate clipart! Use custom animation (slide show, custom animation) to make your words enter and give your pictures effects. Add a slide transition. (slide show, slide transition)  Don't forger to watch it! (slide show, view show)

Check out the following sites for some joke inspiration:

Yahoo kids jokes

Girafian jokes

4. Try New Year Blast and other games on this site