decactivities

|| **Gingerbread House Coordinate Graphing** ||= **Holiday Polling & Graphing** ||= **Holiday Cards** ||= **How The Grinch Stole Christmas** || Students will create a winter picture using any available drawing program such as Microsoft Paint, KidPix, TuxPaint, Kerpoof. The pictures should be saved as JPGs for use in the video. Students will then be recorded singing a Winter themed song such as //Jingle Bells// or //Winter Wonderland// using an available tool such as Audacity or GarageBand. The exported pictures and recorded song will be combined by the teacher to create a Winter Song Video using available tools such as Animoto,iMovie, Movie Maker, MyPlick.com, Smilebox, One True Media, etc. || //__Description__// Students will use a template to create a Gingerbread House in Excel. Students will also add clip art of a gingerbread man. __//Files//__ Gingerbread House Template
 * **Winter Song Video**
 * __//Description//__

Gingerbread House Key

Student Worksheet

Example || __//Description//__ Students will respond to one or more of our **Winter Wonderland Holiday Polls** __//Extension//__ Students can download the data and use a graphing program or tool to create graphs of the polling data. All data will be compiled and available on the wiki. Polls will close on December 10th! || //__Description__// Students will create Holiday Cards using Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, any available drawing tool or even any multimedia tool. Have the students design the perfect "card" from your class. For example, have one computer in the lab set up in a drawing program and have each student add something to the drawing or message. Or, have each student create their own card and vote for the one to send (or post) to the other classes or send (or post) them all. Classes can choose to actually mail cards to participating classes or can post their //cards// on the wiki on our **Holiday Cards** page. If you wish to mail cards to others, you will need to provide your school address. The addresses will only be available to schools participating in the mail Holiday Card exchange. Registration for the regular mail card exchange closes on December 10th but you can always post a card online.//If you will be participating in the mail exchange, you will need to budget for the mailing costs for mailing your card(s) to up to 20 schools.// __//Files//__ [|Google Docs Video Christmas Card Template] [|Google Docs Pass It Around Birthday Blue Template] (change the colors, etc. to make this a holiday card //__Extensions__// Map where you in the world your cards are going either on an actual map or virtually using Google Earth or Google Maps. || Students will read or watch //How The Grinch Stole Christmas//. They will then create a picture illustrating what they love about Christmas or about their best Christmas ever. The teacher will then upload the pictures to a VoiceThread and the students will narrate their pictures as a "letter" to the Grinch about why he shouldn't steal Christmas. [|How the Grinch Stole Christmas on YouTube] (1966 version in 3 parts) ||