Cycle 13

Gingerbread Men, Gingerbread Houses and Holiday Lights Math

 

Full Day Kindergarten--The full day kindergarten class will be using a variety of shapes to create a gingerbread man.  The students reviewed circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, cones, spheres and cubes.  The students printed out a coloring page of their gingerbread men.  You can always create more gingerbread men here.

 

Second Grade--The second grade students finished their mystery pictures in Excel and then practiced their math facts.  For each correct problem they answered, they received 10 holiday lights.  When their time was up, they were able to use the lights they earned to decorate a house.  See how many holiday lights you can earn by playing Holiday Lights Math.

 

First Grade--The first grade students are building gingerbread houses. When they are finished with their gingerbread house, they will use descriptive sentences to describe their house.  Have some fun building a Gingerbread House.  

 

The students in Mrs. Eckenrode's 2nd grade class watched Purple, Green and Yellow by Robert Munsch and then used their 500 coloring markers to create pictures.  Listen to the students tell you about the day they got 500 Coloring Markers.

 

 

Cycle 12

MYSTERY PICTURE IN EXCEL AND EMAIL

Second Grade Mystery Picture in Excel--During this cycle the students will be reintroduced to Excel.  We will talk about the rows and columns and how they intersect to form a cell.  We will also discuss how to move from cell to cell and how to tell which cell you are located in by looking at the Name Box.  We will be using the formula bar to enter data.  Once we are familiar with Excel, we will be locating certain cells and using the fill color icon to color the cells.  When the students are finished they will unveil a mystery picture. Hint:  A place for the person listed below to live

First Grade E-Mail Holiday Postcards--During this cycle, the students are learning about Electronic Mail or E-mail.  The students will learn that just like when we send a letter in the mail we need an address, we also need an address when sending E-mail.  The students will learn the three parts to an email address:  username, @, and domain (company providing the E-mail).  Then, the students will be using the Scholastic Web site http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/ecards/ to send holiday e-cards to a family member.  This will give us practice using our shift key for capital letters and to make the @.

I hope everyone receives the special holiday message sent by the 1st graders, but if you (or the special person) did not receive the email, it may have been blocked by spam filters or we may have misspelled the address.  We did our best!--Mr. Willson