It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Winter

1. HighlightKids Design Your Own Gingerbread House and Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby House. What similarities and differences did you notice with both sites? Which site do you like better? Why?

           

2. Next, we will be using some activities from abcya.com.

    

    
PK_2.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation

1st Grade Online Coloring Books

-Teachers & Parents: (Lesson) (Handout 1) (Handout 2)We can use technology to help us create items, for example, online coloring books. Lets discuss using an online coloring book compared to paper and crayon coloring books.

  

PK_2.TC.1 Technology Operations and Concepts
PK.2.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation

Kindergarten Online Coloring

Last week we used KidPix to learn about the fill bucket. Today we will use Kea Coloring's fill bucket tool to paint pictures. Let's compare the two programs.

PK_2.TC.1 Technology Operations and Concepts
PK_2.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation

4th Grade Online Stories - Storybird

Finish & publish your stories in Storybird!
Username: helab4th
Password: he1234


3_5.CC.1 Communication and Collaboration

5th Grade Story Starters

-Teachers & Parents: (Handout) (Lesson)
Create your own wacky stories with Scholastic Story Starters. Choose from the following formats to publish your story (notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard). No more, "Mr. Horne, I don't know what to write about." This site is awesome!


3_5.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation

5th Grade TEACHERS vs STUDENTS Sumdog Competition

Here are the top 10 finishers for the 5th Grade Teachers vs Students Sumdog.com competition. Great job everyone who participated!

We Are The Champions!

We did it 5th graders! We captured the Mangahigh.com Fai-To trophy from Northwest Elementary! What a great math Fai-To. Hutchings defeated Northwest 5 rounds to 4 rounds for the victory. Every student that participated in our Mangahigh smackdown should be proud!

 

Micorsoft Word Turkey

What are you thankful for? Download Mr. Horne's Microsoft Turkey here, then insert some Word Art on each turkey feather that describes what you are thankful for.

5th Grade Mangahigh.com Math Fai-To

Way to go Wyatt N! Wyatt won the "Hero" medal for scoring the most points during our most recent round of our Mangahigh.com math competition against Northwest Elementary. We won round 6, and it's now tied 3 rounds a piece. First school to win 5 rounds wins the Fai-To! C'mon 5th graders, get to Mangahigh.com now and get us some points!

3rd Grade Story Starters

-Teachers & Parents: (Handout) (Lesson)
Create your own wacky story with Scholastic Story Starters. We will be printing out these stories when finished.


3_5.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation

2nd Grade Draw That Habitat

-Teachers & Parents: (Lesson)
How much do you know about habitats? Today we have a two part project:

Step 1: Create your own Wild Self.


Step 2: Use Draw That Habitat to create a habitat that fits your Wild Self.


PK_2.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation
PK_2.CT.2 Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

1st Grade Reading Activities PBS Kids

Choose from the following Reading Activities at PBS Kids.

5th Grade Mangahigh.com Math Fai-To

All right 5th graders, let's have a friendly math smackdown against all of the 5th graders at Northwest Elementary in Howell. Log into Mangahigh.com and select "Northwest Elementary" to challenge for our first ever school-to-school Fai-To.

Kindergarten PBS Kids Counting Games

Visit some of the great counting games offered at PBS Kids.

It's On, It's On, It's On!

Calling all 5th Graders. Join Mrs. Wanlass, Mr. Prince, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. DeLand, Mrs. Linhart, & Mr. Horne for a friendly, LIVE, sumdog.com math competition on Tuesday, November 22nd at 7:30pm. Better brush up on your multiplication facts because the Hutchings staff is ready for a math smackdown!

Kindergarten PBS Kids Dress Up Activities

Check out some of the great Dress Up activities from PBS Kids.

4th Grade Hot Shot Business

Think it's easy to run your own business? Well, now it's your chance to give it a try. Let's find out who can make the biggest profit by running their own business with Disney's Hot Shot Business.

1st Grade Estimate & Measure

Can you help Chef Pierre in his kitchen? You will need to help him estimate and measure.

5th Grade Hot Shot Business

Think it's easy to run your own business? Well, now it's your chance to give it a try. Let's find out who can make the biggest profit by running their own business with Disney's Hot Shot Business.

Kindergarten Cooking With Caillou

Visit Caillou for an interactive lesson in cooking.



PK_2.TC.7 Technology Operations and Concepts

2nd Grade Counting Money

1. Visit Math Nook for this Counting Money game. Click on the correct change to score points.


2. Practice counting money at these three sites:
         

3. Next, try your coin smarts at Exact Change, also from Math Nook.

PK_2.TC.6 Technology Operations and Concepts