HOLIDAY PROJECT IDEAS
Digesting a Story - This lesson guides students through a lesson focused on setting and writing composition. You or even the class, bring in holiday props to create various settings in the classroom for students to incorporate into the lesson. This is a great way to work on those writing skills.
Christmas Timeline for Children - Students delve into research in this project as they discover the history and timeline of Christmas. Resources are provided but you can easily add as you see fit! The end product is the creation of a timeline. Students can use Notability, Pages, or Keynote to create this project.
How Much Will My Christmas List Cost? - In this project, students list everything they want for Christmas, estimate how much it will cost and then research the actual prices. Make it even more fun and limit the amount of funds students are allowed to spend! Place various amounts in a box on small sheets of paper and have each student draw for an amount. On the iPad, you would use Numbers or Google Sheets rather than Excel.
Acrostic Christmas Poems - This site offers a lesson (PPT) for Acrostic Poems. You will have to be creative for the poem activity but here is a suggested activity to follow the lesson:
1) Using Keynote, Have students create a slide for each letter of the word.
2) There are two options:
Option A - Students type the line of the poem on the slide with each letter.
Option B - Place a picture of the letter slide in iMovie. Students can then read each line over the image. The end product is a movie featuring their acrostic poem! If you want them to add images, please have them watch the video below before searching to ensure they are not stealing the images.
Christmas Timeline for Children - Students delve into research in this project as they discover the history and timeline of Christmas. Resources are provided but you can easily add as you see fit! The end product is the creation of a timeline. Students can use Notability, Pages, or Keynote to create this project.
How Much Will My Christmas List Cost? - In this project, students list everything they want for Christmas, estimate how much it will cost and then research the actual prices. Make it even more fun and limit the amount of funds students are allowed to spend! Place various amounts in a box on small sheets of paper and have each student draw for an amount. On the iPad, you would use Numbers or Google Sheets rather than Excel.
Acrostic Christmas Poems - This site offers a lesson (PPT) for Acrostic Poems. You will have to be creative for the poem activity but here is a suggested activity to follow the lesson:
1) Using Keynote, Have students create a slide for each letter of the word.
2) There are two options:
Option A - Students type the line of the poem on the slide with each letter.
Option B - Place a picture of the letter slide in iMovie. Students can then read each line over the image. The end product is a movie featuring their acrostic poem! If you want them to add images, please have them watch the video below before searching to ensure they are not stealing the images.
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Our tip comes from Mrs. Henry at Van Duyn Elementary.
Writing, learning, and producing a play can be rather challenging. FInding costumes, music and props is also a huge task. Why not let the students create the music and sound effects? As I was searching for sound effects for our play, I quickly realized I would be spending money for sound effects. Honestly, that is not an option. So, Mrs. Sellers came in to our classroom to help us record sound effects in Garageband.
These sounds are far better than anything I can buy simply because they are student made and perfect for our play. It took us all of 15 minutes as a group to plan and record. This is perfect for class projects, group projects and individual projects. Are students making an iMovie? Why not have them create their own music in Garageband? Give it a try!
These sounds are far better than anything I can buy simply because they are student made and perfect for our play. It took us all of 15 minutes as a group to plan and record. This is perfect for class projects, group projects and individual projects. Are students making an iMovie? Why not have them create their own music in Garageband? Give it a try!
CLASSROOM SPOTLIGHT
This weeks spotlight comes from the Central 5th grade.
Task: Google Slides Book Report
Students were allowed to choose a book they had read in class.
Using an outline for the slides (picture below the video), students developed their slides.
The challenge here is to find images that are fair use and cite any text copied from a source.
This is a great first step for teaching students to cite sources!
Task: Google Slides Book Report
Students were allowed to choose a book they had read in class.
Using an outline for the slides (picture below the video), students developed their slides.
The challenge here is to find images that are fair use and cite any text copied from a source.
This is a great first step for teaching students to cite sources!