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media type="custom" key="2943045" = = =February = Most of the classes had heard the book Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. So, I had them go to these two sights to see actual photos of his snowflakes: [|Snowflake Bentley] and [|Snowflake Collection] Then they went to to look at more recent photos of snowflakes [|here]. Their next step was to go into Tux Paint and draw their own flake using white paint and a dark colored background. On the first day someone asked if they could use the symmetry tool in Magic. Wow, what a great idea! I love learning from the kids. So then they had a choice to draw one free hand or with the Kaleidoscope tool in Magic. I think they were working harder on getting six sides when they were drawing free hand. Most groups had time to do several drawings. I think next year I'll have them do one free style first and then one with the Magic tool. The next class the students opened up Paint,learned how to view thumbnails, and opened their favorite snowflake picture. Then they learned how to save it as a JPEG and change it's file name. Once this was done the students had fun making virtual snowflakes at these two sites: [|Make a Flake] and [|Snow Days]. I tried emailing a finished flake to myself to see if I could embed it here but I never got the email!

I took their finished JPEGs and made them into a movie by using Animoto. Mrs. Owen's Class media type="custom" key="3206370" Mrs. Davis' Class media type="custom" key="3208060" Mrs. Stephen's Class media type="custom" key="3208064" Mrs. Tinker's Class media type="custom" key="3291640" Miss Leo's Class media type="custom" key="3291658" **Miss Armitage's Class ** media type="custom" key="3325252" =January = The second graders completed the Penguin Math Book. They printed it as a handout so they ended up with a mini book to take home. I did not save the completed books to post here. = =  =December = = = All my second grade classes made the Gingerbread House. It was a great introduction to Excel. Most of the students did well maneuvering around the program filling in the cells and adding the clipart. When they finished they were able to go to [|The Gingerbread Man with Everything]. They had a ball decorating the cookie in very creative ways. Since most the houses turned out the same with just the clipart being different I decided to just post one house here and then post some of the cookie creations.


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