Evans+and+Blanco+2012

& Mrs. Shannon Blanco's
see Santa's elvettes

Holiday Book Projects (some projects are in revision)

 * made especially for ePals from Italy

Objective: Students will share their family traditions and holiday reflections with their classmates and international penpals.

**Description:** Students were given opportunities to reflect, then write about their past holidays, what Christmas is to them, their favorite holiday movies and songs, and to inject humor by writing about the worst gifts one could give or receive, what Santa would do is his elves went on strike, if Christmas came in summer, and if Rudolph ate their front-door wreaths. They were also challenged to research one aspect about the season such as the mystery about mistletoe, how to make eggnog, when the first Christmas card was created and sent, how the candy cane received it stripes, etc. Then they chose their best writings to include in their holiday traditions technology project.

Technology: iPad, app - PicCollage, PowerPoint 2010 w/movie creator, Google search engine


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 * [[image:joey roos.jpg width="216" height="162" link="file:holiday-nook/joey roos.wmv"]] || [[image:Holiday writing Kayla A.jpg width="216" height="161" link="file:Holiday writing Kayla A.wmv"]] || [[image:Eric.jpg width="216" height="162" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1am5nzwakcos7ek/Eric.wmv"]] ||
 * === Joey === || === Kayla === || == Eric == ||
 * [[image:christmas_is joe m.jpg width="216" height="162" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/03b6y3i3ljo9dbc/christmas_is%20joe%20m.wmv"]] || [[image:South Africa Christmas Traditions Jordan C.jpg width="216" height="162" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/06bto9b6g4vyj36/South%20Africa%20Christmas%20Traditions%20Jordan%20C.wmv"]] || [[image:United Kingdom - Justin M.jpg width="216" height="162" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1h0dxpgsg6ix2h/United%20Kingdom%20-%20Justin%20M.wmv"]] ||
 * == Joe == || == Jordan == || == Justin M == ||
 * [[image:Netherlands-Christmas Time Sebastian R.jpg width="226" height="224"]] || [[image:Denmark - Christmas story power point sam.jpg width="229" height="244" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/3dq6x1u47udi1n9/Denmark%20-%20Christmas%20story%20power%20point%20sam.wmv"]] || [[image:Christmas is Justin T.jpg width="220" height="246" link="file:holiday-nook/Christmas is Justin T.wmv"]] ||
 * === Sebastian === || == Sam == || === Justin === ||
 * [[image:Holiday Living, Justin L.jpg width="216" height="162" link="file:holiday-nook/Holiday Living, Justin L.wmv"]] || [[image:LINDSEY’S H.jpg width="216" height="162" link="file:holiday-nook/LINDSEY’S H.wmv"]] ||  ||
 * === Justin L === || === Lindsay === ||  ||