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**Feel free to complete one activity or do them all! The themes this month are Valentine's Day & Hearts and Animals in Winter along with a little Winter Weather & 100th Day of School. 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. **

Winter Weather Continued
> **If possible, we would like everyone who participates in this task to try to take a picture sometime between February 13th & February 17th. ** media type="custom" key="12305132" align="center"
 * = ==Activity == || ==Description == || ==Files/Resource Links == || ==Extension == ||
 * = **Winter At Our Schools** || This activity will allow students to continue to learn about weather in February.
 * 1) Take a picture of your school (or better yet have a student take the picture) at some time during February which shows what the weather is like during February at your school.
 * 1) Using a thermometer or a Weather Web Site (see the Resource Links), find out what the temperature is (or was) when you take the picture and what the precipitation is (or was) on the day the picture was taken.
 * 2) Edit the collaborative Google Presentation (on this page or the home page of the Wiki) by:
 * Clicking on //Menu// and then on the //Winter at Our Schools// link.
 * Then click on //Actions// & then //Edit//. Everyone has permission to edit this presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Navigate to a blank slide. A blank slide will have a message that says "Delete This Box" on it. If there are no blank slides, please contact an organizer who will add one for you or you can click //Slide// and then //Duplicate Slide// on the last slide to create a duplicate which you can modify with your School's information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Add your picture using the Insert Image option and add your School Name, Location, Temperature and Precipitation information under your picture.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When the month is over, the completed presentation can viewed and discussed to analyze the differences in temperature and precipitation from location to location. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Weather Sites: > Enter the Zip Code of your school and you can view the current weather or use the Month option to get the highs, lows and precipitation for any date in the month. > Enter the Zip Code of your school and you can view the current weather. There will be a Weather History For This Location link about 1/2 way down the page. This is a great resource for past weather and even shows hour by hour graphs in case you forgot to write down the temperature when you took your picture. || * I<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">nstead of just taking one picture and tracking the weather on on day, take a picture a week or a picture a day during January and use Excel to track the weather for each day you take the pictures. Use the averages found on the weather sites to see if the temperatures and precipitation for this year were equal to the averages or not.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Weather Channel
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Weather Underground
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Graph the temperatures and locations from the collaborative presentation using Excel or a Google Spreadsheet.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create a Google Map or a Google Earth file showing the locations of all participants in the collaborative presentation. ||

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Valentine's Day & Hearts

 * == Activity == || == Description == || == Files/Links == || == Extension == ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Virtual Valentine's Greetings** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Finished Voki's can be posted on each teacher/class page and on **our Virtual Valentine's page**.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 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 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **I Love** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 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] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **Graphing** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 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. || * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|ConversationHeartCountSheet.pdf]
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Things**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|ThingsILove.kia]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|ThingsILove.ppt] ||  ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**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;">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: #0080ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Animals In Winter
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will read or have read to them //The Mitten// by Jan Brett. After the book has been read, students will use PowerPoint to create a Mini Book with a Mitten Theme. To model this activity for students, download the template and modify it slightly to show students how to use PowerPoint to create this. This will show them what they need to do but not give them the answers to the math problems. For younger grades, it may help to re-read the book as they complete the slide for sequencing of events from the book.
 * = ==<span style="background-color: #0080ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Activity == || ==<span style="background-color: #0080ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Description == || ==<span style="background-color: #0080ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Files/Resource Links == || ==<span style="background-color: #0080ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extension == ||
 * = **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mittens Math & More **

<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 for all grades is a mitten coloring activity - a color by number for Kindergarten and 1st Grade and a glyph for 2nd & 3rd Grades. This requires good mouse control to correctly click on the correct portions of the mitten to be colored and requires color name recognition to complete therefore Kindergarten students may require assistance to complete the last slide.

<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. || * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Mitten-Math_and_More-K.ppt]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Mitten-Math_and_More-1st.ppt]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Mitten-Math_and_More-2nd.ppt]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Mitten-Math_and_More-3rd.ppt] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Print out the Animal Masks from the Mitten and have students recreate the story using a video camera to film it and share with others.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create a Voki using either the Bear or Mouse character and ask students a question about The Mitten or about how animals survive in the winter. Students can create their own Voki response without needing an account by clicking on the comment icon and then Leave A Comment. ||
 * = **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Animals In Winter Movie ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Research animals in winter using appropriate books or web sites. For younger students, teachers can read books or create a presentation that is shown to the class about animals in winter. Older students can use child appropriate search engines or teacher selected web sites and materials for their research.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Draw an animal in winter in an appropriate habitat or find a Creative Commons photograph of an animal in Winter. using iMovie or Windows Movie Maker.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Younger students will add a sentence about their animal in winter to their image or photo.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Older students will write a few sentences or a paragraph about their animal in winter. These will be recorded by the students as narration to the movie.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teacher will: > (This is a Canadian site with information for Canada but much of it applies to other regions. Scroll down page for Animal information) ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Combine all images in to a movie file using iMovie or Windows Movie Maker or Windows Photostory.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If students will be narrating their images, help each student to record their narration.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Optionally, find appropriate Creative Commons music for use on the movie.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Upload the completed movie file to an online hosting site such as TeacherTube or SchoolTube or Vimeo. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Animals In Winter Links
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Winter Animals Encyclopedia
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How Do Animals Spend The Winter?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">National Geographic Creature Features
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Animals in the Winter PPT
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ready For Winter

==<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">100th Day of School <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">The 100th day of school is typically between mid-January & mid-February in the Northern Hemisphere ==
 * = ==<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/Resource Links == || ==<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extension == ||
 * = **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">100 Years Old ** ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will read or have read to them a book about the 100th Day of School followed by a discussion about what it might feel like to be 100 years old. Students will then draw a picture of themselves at 100 years old and write about what they think they will be doing when they are 100 years old.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teachers will compile the pictures and sentences or stories into a class book using one of the recommended resources or any other resource so that it can be shared online. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Book Creation Sites:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mixbook
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Youblisher
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ePub Bud (eBook creator) || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If using ePub Bud to publish stories, students can record their story and this could be included in the eBook version. ||
 * = **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Healthy Hearts & 100 Jumps ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teachers will assist students in finding their pulse point and counting the beats of their heart for 15 seconds to obtain a resting heart rate. For students that know multiplication, they can then calculate their resting heart rate by multiplying the number of beats in 15 seconds times 4. For younger students, the teacher can do this calculation. Resting heart rates will then be recorded on an Excel spreadsheet and students will compare the rates of all of the students in the class.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The teacher will then have the students jump in place 100 times or for 100 seconds and then students will again take their heart rate and graph this result and compare this to their resting heart rate. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|WinterWonderland-HeartRates.xls] || * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students create stethoscopes to use to listen to and record one another's heart rates.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Habits of the Heart: The Pulse of Life
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Body, the Inside Story ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Counting to 100** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will "stamp" or draw 100 pictures in a grid using a graphics program. || * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">KidPix Grid (created by Ann Oro)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|10x10 Grid for Tux Paint] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Online Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Give The Dog a Bone
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mend the Number Square
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Multiples of 10 Ghost Blasters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ABCya! 100 Number Grid
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ABCya! Super Connect the Dots
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Starfall: 100th Day of School
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ABCya! 100 Snowballs ||