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I Love** ||= **Virtual Valentine's Greetings** ||= **Conversation Hearts Graphing** ||= **Candy Heart Sentences / Poems** ||= **If My Heart Had...** || 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. __//Files//__ [|ThingsILove.ppt] [|Kidspiration template] || __//Description//__ 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. The completed Voki will be posted on the Winter Wonderland Wiki on **our Virtual Valentine's page.**
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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. || __//Description//__ 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. //__Files__// [|ConversationHeartCountSheet.pdf] [|ConversationHeartsGraph.xls] //__Supplies Needed__// One box of Conversation Hearts per student or student pair. //__Extensions__// 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. || //__Description__// 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. || __//Description//__ 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. __//Files// [|If my Heart had... Kidspiration Template]__ [|If my Heart had... JPEG] ||