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February Project: Miss Schaefer's 1st graders got into the spirit of Valentine's Day! We decided to brainstorm three things that we love. Each child wrote a list and then typed it onto his/her slide. Then, the children needed to search for Clip Art to match the words. Miss Schaefer compiled it into a presentation for us.

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January Project

We spent a few weeks listening to Miss Schaefer read penguin books, and we read some penguin books on our own. As we found interesting facts, we each recorded our own facts on note paper. In one computer class, each student created a penguin glyph. In the next computer class, each child had to choose one or more interesting facts about penguins to type on the Power Point slides. Miss Schaefer used Slide to put the presentation together. media type="custom" key="3066310"

December Project media type="custom" key="3066328" Making the pictures: We decided to use the photographs from our Gingerbread Baking for this video. During the month of December, we have an intense Gingerbread Unit with a play as our final project. Some of our activities include: baking cookies, art projects, writing our own version, reading many different versions of the famous tale, and putting on a play for our families.

Making the music: Our class sang "Oh Gingerbread" which is a song from our play called //The Gingerbread Kid Caper// published by Copycat Magazine. I recorded the voices using Audacity.

Making the video: I uploaded the photographs and music into Movie Maker. Then I used Smilebox for the publication.