Holiday Cards Map

This map shows the places our holiday cards were sent. Explore with your children to find the place on the map where their card was sent. Start by zooming out (click the - sign on the bottom of symbols in the upper left corner). I am on a journey of learning myself with all this technology that is available. I'm sure there is a way to start by seeing the United States. I'm just not sure how to make that happen. Bear with me!



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Holiday Card Exchange 2009

St. Ambrose's ACES are participating in a Holiday Card Exchange! We are participating through a wonderful site maintained by a teacher, Jennifer Wagner, from California. She organizes a variety of projects that utilize technology. This is our first official project and we are only half-way finished and it's been a wonderful experience so far. We received a list of 24 other classrooms throughout the United States that we will send a holiday card. The students were each assigned a classroom. They wrote a letter explaining some things about our school, Pittsburg, and how we celebrate Christmas. The students also made a holiday card to send along with their letter. In return, we will be receiving 24 holiday cards from these classrooms. As we receive the cards in the mail, we will be searching for the locations on the map and really sharpening our geography skills in the process! We can't wait for those cards to start arriving.

If you would like to take a look at a map of participants, just follow the link to Ms. Wagner's Map of Participants. I shared this map with the students and showed them how to zoom in and actually see pictures of the towns participating. They were so excited to see St. Mary's Elementary on the map!

http://www.jenuinetech.com/Projects/hce09/hce2009participants.htm

CANDY EXPERIMENTS

What can you do with all that leftover Halloween candy? The 1st and 2nd grade ACES used it to conduct CANDY EXPERIMENTS! In conjuntion with the school science fair and shortly after Halloween, we conducted several experiments with candy. The boys and girls hypothesized and experimented and even got to eat one little piece of candy! The experiments and ideas came from Family Fun magazine and www.candyexperiments.com. We didn't have time for all the experiments so . . . if you've got some extra candy and time on your hands check out the site and HAPPY EXPERIMENTING!

Holiday Card Exchange

We are part of a Holiday Card Exchange that I will blog about soon. Enjoy the slideshow of some of the finished cards by the 1st and 2nd grade ACES! I provided the blank cards, ribbon, construction paper, decorative brads, and stamps. The ACES provided their creativity and design. If you'd like some holiday music to go along with the show, click on the speaker in the upper left corner.

Meet the 5/6 ACES

Mr. Snowman

Meet the 1st and 2nd grade ACES