Term 4 Activities



The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Activity 1

Click on the picture. Listen to the story.
Use KidPix to make your drawing of the Troll.
Save it in the class folder so we can use your pictures to make a Slideshow.


Then you can see
** Pictures of the characters
** Pictures of the scenes
**
Pictures of the backgrounds

Activity 2
The Village of Rainbow Edge where Nursery Rhymes aren't all that they seem.
Click on the picture. Listen to the story.
It is a story about the same troll. It is written in a different way. Listen to the story and answer the questions.

** Look at the pictures below.
** Click each picture to find the task.


Click for the story



Click for the questions.
 
Activity 3

Now you can do the work on this site.
Click the picture.

Activity 4
Make your own monster in KidPix.

** Save it with the description in the class folder so we can make our own "Monster Slideshow".
** Draw your partner's monster from the description.
** Save it

Activity 5
Use your digital photo and turn it into a scary picture.
 
 
Digital Photography
Activity 5
Use your digital photo and turn it into a scary picture.
How to take digital photos here.
 
Halloween
Activity 1   K-3
Activity 2  Meddybemps
Activity 3  Choose your grade level for activities  K 1-2
Activity 4  Can you make these shapes into scary monsters? *

 
Scholastic Activity 5
Math
Join Max to read a Halloween poem online.
Then, stir up a cauldron with the Number Soup reproducible and practice basic computation skills.
 Activity 6
Language Arts
Travel to the I Spy Library to read a riddle, practice word recognition, and attend to detail.
Then, use our Scary Starters to help students create a short story of their own, either as a class or as individuals.
 Activity 7
Art and More
Students will weigh, measure, estimate, and graph, practice observation and description skills, cook with pumpkins, and more.
Activity 8
My Tasks for Halloween - Younger Grades

1/ Use this site Halloween from HP to make a Halloween Mask. Also here if first site not working.
2/ Use Kidpix to design a Scary Halloween picture using stamps and a suitable background. [Use it to write a story.]
3/ Use Your Own Halloween Story to write a Halloween wacky story.
4/ A Skeleton to cut out and put together.
5/ Other Halloween Activities.
 
Activity 9
An outstanding list of things to make in a Halloween Theme at Activity Village. Also have lots of excellent activities. Have your printer ready!
 
Celebrations
 
1. Graphing
Use the number of children taking part in various celebrations to make a graph.

Year 2 - Make a chart in Excel

Year 1 - Graph in "Word". {[Range 0 - 160] & 15 columns. Needs rest of information and titles!}

Younger grades  [ or inexperienced users]  - make a graph using KidPix
 
2. ABC
Unit of Work
This Unit of Work is designed to allow students from Kindergarten to Year 6 to explore these various aspects of Celebrations and commemorations.
Activity 1
Go to the site http://www.abc.net.au/civics/celebrations/stage1b.htm and visit TWO of the Internet sites. Answer the questions for each site.

Further Resources
Mr Donn's holidays
My holidays page
 
Activity 2
My Christmas Activities
 
Activity 3

Place each picture in the correct box You need to use "Paint" with "Copy/ Paste" to split them up.
Birthday        
Christmas        
Easter        
 
Activity 4
Christmas
- my activities are taken from these.
 
Activity 5
My Christmas Activities
- resource time - from the links below.
 
Palmerston District Primary School
 
Shoalhaven School
 
Koala's Christmas
 
TechCentral provides step-by-step instructions on how to Create Your Own Christmas Cards , using Microsoft Publisher as the basic tool.  Clipart.
 
Edna's Links
  • Using ICT in the classroom
  • Christmas Webquests, learning quests and treasure hunts
  • Australian Schools' Christmas Pages
     
  • 4 Scavenger Hunts
     
    Tas Ed  - A must go there site!
    eg. Look at the PowerPoint presentation for ideas!
     
    A wonderful links site
    http://www.fvsd.ab.ca/stm/christmas_sites.htm#themes
     
    An excellent resource in "Word"
     
    Christmas Around the World
    PPT1
     
    Activity 3
    Exercises with these programs.
    Microsoft Excel exercises
    Microsoft Excel exercises
     
    Microsoft Word Exercises
    Microsoft Word Exercises
    Microsoft Word Exercises
     
    This is an a "work in progress".
    In particular, CHRISTMAS
    - Try this though, please.
     
    Research link .
     
    * Queensland Art Gallery ** Erica Shadiac

    Wayne
    Oct. 2005

     

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    Updated October 2005
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