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Junior
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Working with the Internet:
 Read a story
by clicking on an item in Santa's workshop. Why not read this to a
friend? |
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Working with the Internet and Word.
Read this story "Koala
Trouble" Copy your favourite picture by right-clicking on it
and choosing "copy". Then open a Word document and paste it in.
Can you label the characters and items in the picture? You can use
text boxes to do this. |
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Working with
Paint:
Can
you create a picture of your family on Christmas morning in Paint? |
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Working with
KidPix:
Create a 5 slide
KidPix show on Christmas. On your first slide write a letter to Father
Christmas asking him for a present. On the second slide design a present
for your mum. On the third slide draw a picture of your family on
Christmas morning. Then on the final slide draw a picture of your
Christmas dinner. You
might like to even use a photo of yourself and turn yourself into Father
Christmas! |
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Middle
Primary |
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Working with Word:
Read
this
poem. Open Word and paste each verse into a separate textbox.
Now can you replace some words with others to create an innovation on this
poem. Add
a picture, a heading and a border |
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Working with
Inspiration:
Using
Inspiration, create a concept map which shows 6 different countries and what
Christmas means to them. Include photos from the Internet that you copy and
paste. There are lots of links above to help you complete this.
On the sections about Australia - maybe use some photos
from your own family collections. |
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Read
some of these great
Australian Christmas stories. Try writing your own. |
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Working
with ArtRage -
(freeware)
Create
some pieces of original art that you can use for many of the above
activities. Use tracing paper images to help you if you want to.
Export them and save as jpg images in a folder you can get to. Consider
putting them in shared folder so your classmates can use them too. |
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Working with
PowerPoint:
Read this poem "Twas
the Night Before Christmas". Copy and paste each verse into Powerpoint.
Use a slide per verse. Change each verse so that it contains members of
your family and so that it is about your family. Insert appropriate pictures.
Animate the pictures appropriately. |
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Working
with ComicLife (mac
program)
Use
images that you have created yourself using ArtRage or a painting program to
show a story of Santa arriving in a house and having trouble with over tired
reindeers on the roof. |
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Working
with think.com
(web based learning tool)
Create
a page on Christmas. Include articles on how you celebrate Xmas at
your house. Include some participation activities in which you get
others to respond to votes, brainstorms and debates. Think about
including items on how other cultures celebrate Christmas. Include
also some original artwork.
Design
a page with the focus on sharing ways different children in your class
celebrate Christmas. You might be surprised at the comparisons and
differences!
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Upper
Primary |
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Working
across applications:
Use your internet search skills to find a Christmas poem that
you have never read or hear before. Copy and paste the text into Word. Try
replacing words throughout this poem to create your own version. Add illustrations
that you have created yourself (use ArtRage), a WordArt heading and a BorderArt border. Print
for display in your room.
Create vouchers to give as gifts at Christmas time. Work
in Word and any other program you find useful. Original art is best so
think about creating in ArtRage or Paint. Limit the amount of typing
that you have to do by using
the copy and paste functions as much as you can.
Design a good logo to advertise a Christmas shop which specialises
in Australian Christmas items. Use a combination of shapes, pictures
and words to create this logo. Don't forget to group all the items. Use
whatever programs you find useful.
Read the InnKeeper's
Tale - a Christmas story from the perspective of the Inn Keeper.
Create 5 questions to ask if you were going to test someone's comprehension
of this story and type these in Word. Open Puzzlemaker
and create a puzzle to go with this story.
Challenge: Try writing a similar story but from the
perspective of Rachel, his wife, or from the perspective of one of his
children.
Use whatever applications you think appropriate
for this task. Use a map of the world. Mark a possible route
that Father Christmas might take to get to all the places he has to.
Can you add pictures that represent something to do with the different
countries and the way the celebrate Christmas? Finish appropriately
by using headings, borders and colour.
Design a Christmas the way you would like it to be.
Use whatever applications and research sources you need to use. Choose
whatever application you wish to use to present your ideas. |
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Working with Publisher
Create a Christmas Card in Publisher, using some of the clipart which
are linked to at the top of this page. |
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Working
with ComicLife (mac
program)
Use
images that you have created yourself using ArtRage or a painting program to
show a story of Santa arriving in a house and having trouble with over tired
reindeers on the roof. |
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Working with
Inspiration:
Using
Inspiration, create a concept map which shows 6 different countries and what
Christmas means to them. Include photos from the Internet that you copy and
paste. There are lots of links above to help you complete this.
On the sections about Australia - maybe use some photos
from your own family collections. |
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Working
with think.com
(web based learning tool)
Create
a page on Christmas. Include articles on how you celebrate Xmas at
your house. Include some participation activities in which you get
others to respond to votes, brainstorms and debates. Think about
including items on how other cultures celebrate Christmas. Include
also some original artwork.
Design
a page with the focus on sharing ways different children in your class
celebrate Christmas. You might be surprised at the comparisons and
differences! |
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Working with
Powerpoint:
Open "The
Last Christmas Tree" in an Explorer window and create a Powerpoint
Presentation, copying and pasting the most significant verses into slides
to show the sequence of events. Add pictures, including animations
from the links at the top of the page.
Can you also use some of
this
music to add something special? Try right clicking on the original link and
selecting 'save target as'.
Create a Powerpoint slideshow designed to show
different Christmas customs throughout the world. Use action buttons
linked to a map on slide 1 to enable the Powerpoint user to jump to the
different countries to read about their customs. |
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