Holiday+2012+Books+3A

Title: Holiday Books - Traditions/Stories/Tales
===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: PowerPoint 2010 w/movie converter, Google images, Dropbox, Schooltube.

 * [[image:Tom Hinckle Christmas Traditions.jpg width="320" height="240" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9tfayd4ixxpo06/Tom%20Hinckle%20Christmas%20Traditions.wmv"]] || [[image:My Christmas Top Ten Katie Sue.jpg width="320" height="240" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/37fn57l14qoxnh2/My%20Christmas%20Top%20Ten%20Katie.wmv"]] ||
 * Tom ||  Katie ||
 * [[image:Michelle's Christmas.jpg width="320" height="240" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1yvi95bhyp6cc06/Michelle%27s%20Christmas.wmv"]] || [[image:Holiday Booklet Mariah.jpg width="320" height="240" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vga9q7w68myute3/Holiday%20Booklet%20Mariah.wmv"]] ||
 * Michelle || Mariah ||
 * [[image:Holiday Booklet Justin.jpg width="320" height="240" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/kr0k31eko6a3sqd/Holiday%20Booklet%20Justin%20H.wmv"]] || [[image:Holiday Booklet Jake.jpg width="320" height="240" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/w4d2smfsagunc5j/Holiday%20Booklet%20Jake.wmv"]] ||
 * Justin || Jake ||
 * [[image:Christmas is Matt.jpg width="320" height="240" link="http://www.schooltube.com/video/5b6d05f5833d402a9b36"]] || [[image:Chris B.jpg width="320" height="240" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/12u6g8rxarmwkez/Chris%20B3A.wmv"]] ||
 * Matt || Chris ||
 * [[image:Ball Holiday Booklet.jpg width="320" height="240" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0abctwmfabdgas/Ball%20Holiday%20Booklet.wmv"]] || [[image:Christmasinalaska.JPG width="308" height="213" align="center" link="https://www.dropbox.com/s/sixie2eslf4jumb/2012-12-20%2011.39.30.wmv"]] ||
 * Michael || unknown: ||