Holiday Tech Fun!

Try these fun Holiday Activities!

Design Your Own Gingerbread House 

Click on the Gingerbread House to go to the website and start decorating.  You may print out your house when you are done!

Click here to decorate a Snowman

Click here to Decorate a Christmas Tree

Only 10 Days to go!  Click the picture below to visit the North Pole and see what Santa and the Elves have been up to!

Using InstaGrok for research

Today you are going to learn how to use InstaGrok to complete your research for your informational essays on New Hampshire.

FOLLOW THE STEPS BELOW--
1.  Log in to your barnardschool.org account in Google
2.  Click here to go to Instagrok 
3.  Click log in with gmail (see illustration below)

4.  Type in your research topic in search bar

5.  Review search results.  Start your research.
REMEMBER--put the information IN YOUR OWN WORDS!!! If you want to use the exact words from a site, put them in QUOTATION MARKS and give credit to your source.
6.  Use the journal feature to take notes (you need to be logged in to save your work!)

The History Of Thanksgiving

Citing Sources and Creating a Bibliography

Francine is confronted about Plagiarism

Link to Practice Creating Citations Handout 
1.  Create a Google Drive document- name it Bibliography
2.  Type Bibliography on document-
3.  Once you create citation on EasyBib, copy and paste it to your Google Drive document
4.  Be sure to indent all lines after first of each citation!  And put in ALPHABETICAL order! 
5.  Share with Ms. Casassa and Ms. MacDonald

 Click here to go to Easybib

Ready for a challenge?

Source Scavenger Hunt: Using EasyBib,  type your favorite animal into the search bar. Locate a website, book, and newspaper article that relates to your favorite animal. Copy and paste the citations into a Google Doc titled Bibliography.

 Link to Google Drive Bibliography Model

Bibliography Basics

Lesson:  How to Cite a Source

Holidays Around the World

HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD

Holidays: A Sampler from Around the World

From America to Scandinavia to the Far East, people celebrate holidays with special rituals and festivities. Take a quick tour of some holiday traditions throughout the year.

National Holidays Around the World  

The table from InfoPlease lists the date and name for select national holidays in countries around the world.

Christmas Around the World

Christmas Traditions around the world and how Christmas is celebrated in different countries and cultures.

Multicultural winter holiday celebrations

Learn to respect other people's traditions and cherish your own with this guide to multicultural winter celebrations. 

Winter Holidays Around the World

The winter holidays are linked to religious festivals that are celebrated in a unique way all over the world.  Here are some interesting ones. 

Santa's Net 

Christmas Traditions around the World.

 

Introducing the Main Character in your Book using Voki

You are going to think about the main character in the book you are currently reading. Complete the Character Trait online worksheet and then the graphic organizer I've shared with you on Google Drive. When you finish both, have an adult in the class review it. Then you can create a VOKI!! Submit all work through Google Classroom. Also, submit the URL of your Voki so we can listen to it. Good luck and have fun!




Complete Graphic Organizer on your character

Go to Voki to create your Voki main character

First, sign up to Google Classroom
1.  Sign into your Google account
2.  Click on the Google Classroom icon on the left side of my Barnard Tech page.
3.  Click "I am a student"
4.  When prompted, type in this classroom code:
                                jbpmkd
5.  Congratulations!  You have now joined Google Classroom Tech Class

Using Google Presentation--"Autumn is..."

Using Google Presentation is just like using Powerpoint.  Today you are going to learn the basics by creating a class book about the season of Autumn.  Follow the directions in the link below (or use the handout you received) to make your own page in our book.

IMPORTANT: Be sure to write your sentence about Autumn on the worksheet and have it reviewed by a teacher before you start on your slide!
Click here to view the directions for our Presentation Activity

Ready to begin?  

Click here to go to the class Presentation

If you finish your slide for the classroom presentation, you may try making your own Google Presentation on holidays and favorite activities in Fall.
Include:
1.  Title Page
2.  At least four slides about Fall activities
3.  Pictures and caption for each slide
Ready for a challenge?
1.  Vary the layout for each slide
2.  Make a picture your background for the slide

Creating Word Webs and Wordles

Today we are going to learn how to create a word web and then turn it into a word collage.  Think about a topic that you know a lot about--it could be a season, like fall, a sport, a book, or some hobby.  Go to Inspiration on your computer and create a web of all the words that you can think of related to that topic.  Once you finish, print out your web.

Using the words from your web, create a Wordle--a cool word collage.  Be sure to print out two color copies.
Click here to go to Wordle:

World Cultures- Traveling the Continents

We are going to start our travels around the world--you will be visiting different continents and countries every week.  But first, let's review all the continents with this short Brain Pop video.

 Click here to watch the video

Resources 

Countries Fact Sheet- need another fact sheet?  Click here and print a copy.

Kidzsearch- a kid friendly search engine 

Instagrok- great resource for kids 

GoGooligans-another good kid friendly search engine 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Click here to visit Around the World--Time for Kids to learn about different countries around the world.

 

 

 

 

Go Wild- Click here to learn about the animals of the world

Africa

African Video
National Geographic for Kids:
Botswana

Europe and Asia

Asia- An Introduction (Video)
National Geographic for Kids:
Turkey
Thailand
Netherlands
Norway

North and South America 

National Geographic for Kids:
United States
Guatemala
Chile
Canada
Brazil
Cuba

Online Safety and Creating an Avatar

 Watch this Brain Pop video to learn How to Keep Safe online

Make your own Avatar--
Choose one of these sites and create an Avatar for your blog


Build Your Wild Self

DoppleMe

The Titanic by Zev and Jake

Learning About Blogs

What is a Blog?  Today we will find out!  Watch Tim and Moby to learn more.  Then you will be ready to start blogging with your own blog! Click on picture to watch the Brain Pop video.

Learning About Our World-Continents and Oceans

Today, you will review all the continents and major bodies of water in our world.  First, we will take a tour  of the entire world! Fasten your seat belts, and get ready for an adventure!



Now, you are going to see if you know all the continents and ocean.  Click the icon below to go to the Continent Review on Shepard Software.  Play "All About World Geography."  Continue until you reach level 2 or 3.

Think you know all the continents and oceans?  Test you knowledge by taking this online quiz.  Be sure to print out your final score and put it in your folder! 
Click here to take the quiz

Are you a pro?  Now, explore one of the continents.  Find out what countries are on the continent you chose.  Listen to the native language and learn about customs.

Click here to go to Culture for Kids to continue your travels.