FebActivities1011



**Feel free to complete one activity or do them all! The themes this month are Valentine's Day & Hearts and Penguins. If you have other projects other than the ones below that you have completed with students on these themes, we would love to see the results on your wiki page. **** The activity with the snowflake is our featured activity for the month. **

=Valentine's Day & Hearts =
 * = == Activity == ||= == Description == ||= == Files/Links == ||= == Extension == ||
 * = **Virtual Valentine's Greetings** || Students in the class will create a Voki (one Voki per class) at Voki.com and record or type a Valentine's Day message for all of the other classes participating in the Winter Wonderland Project.

Finished Voki's can be posted on each teacher/class page and on **our Virtual Valentine's page**.

 Note: Students cannot register for an account at Voki.com until they are at least 13 years old. This project should be completed without registering or under the teacher's account. || Voki.com ||  ||  **I Love** ||  Students will create a picture in PowerPoint or Kidspiration or KidPix of things they love. Students will insert clip art into graphic organizer and also include captions. Files can then be exported as JPEGS and into a slide show or VoiceThread to be narrated. || * [|Things I Love.kid]  **Graphing** ||  Each student (or student pair) will get a box of conversation hearts. They will open and line these up on a sheet of paper by color to create a bar graph on the paper. They will then count each color and record each color total in the Conversation Hearts Graph in Excel or other spreadsheet program or online tool. They will compare their real conversation hearts graph on paper to the one created in Excel or other spreadsheet program or online tool. || * [|ConversationHeartCountSheet.pdf]
 * = **Things**
 * [|ThingsILove.kia]
 * [|ThingsILove.ppt] ||  ||
 * = **Conversation Hearts**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|ConversationHeartsGraph.xls]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//__Supplies Needed__// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> One box of Conversation Hearts per student or student pair. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Compile results for whole class into one spreadsheet to calculate the averages for the class. Visit the [|Necco site] to learn the history of the Conversation Heart and see how they were made and even play a Valentine Message Game. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **Sentences / Poems** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will create sentences or short poems using candy hearts which could be created in a drawing program or by using the ACME Heart Maker. The Heart Maker only allows 8 letters (in 2 lines of 4) per heart so students will need to get creative in what they put on their hearts. Also, students should be supervised when using the Heart Maker and should not go to the see recent hearts link due to possible inappropriate content. The sentences or poem could be created in Word, Google Docs, Powerpoint (so they could be exported as an image) or even Paint. This would allow the students to combine actual text with the hearts they have created for longer words. Once the sentences or poems are complete they could be saved as images and added to the wiki. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ACME Heart Maker ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **Had...** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will complete the Kidspiration activity "If my Heart had..." (e.g. If my heart had hands it would feel...).Students will type a sentence telling what their heart would see, say, feel, and hear if it had those senses. Save pictures as jpegs and post as slideshow or VoiceThread on the wiki. A PowerPoint version is also available for those who do not have Kidspiration.
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Candy Heart**
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**If My Heart**

|| * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|If my Heart had.kia]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|IfMyHeartHad.ppt] ||  ||

=<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Penguins = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **Glyph** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will create a penguin glyph in PowerPoint using a template and legend.
 * = ==<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Activity == ||= ==<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Description == ||= ==<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Files/Links == || ==<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extension == ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Penguin**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If you do not have access to PowerPoint, students could use the legend to draw their penguin glyph in any available drawing program. || * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Glyph Template]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Glyph Legend] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students can learn how to group items, add and order clipart, etc. and create a scene with their glyph in PowerPoint.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students can research facts about penguins and type facts about penguins into a text box they insert below their completed glyph. See our resources page for some Penguin Research links. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **Math** **Book** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will use PowerPoint to create a Mini Math Book with a Penguin Theme. To model this activity for students, download the template and modify it slightly to show students how to use PowerPoint to create their Penguin Math Book. This will show them what they need to do but not give them the answers to the math problems in the Penguin Math Book.
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Penguin**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> To create the mini books, print the presentation as handouts with 6 slides per page. The students or teacher can then trim the pages and staple them together to make a book.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The final slide can be difficult for Kindergarten students to complete but is a good exercise in teaching them mouse control.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Note: This activity will most than likely take take more than one 25-30 minute class period to complete and print. Many of the activities in the Penguin Math Book are similar to those in January's Mittens Math & More activity. || * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|PenguinMath-Kindergarten.ppt]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|PenguinMath-Grade1.ppt]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|PenguinMath-Grade2.ppt]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|PenguinMath-Grade3.ppt] ||  ||