SCICON DAY TRIP: FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010 PERFORMING ARTS TRIP: TBA ONLINE PROJECTS (www.jenuinetech.com/projects): O.R.E.O. XI Project Dates: September 21 - October 16, 2009 Students will have 2 chances to stack the oreo cookies as high as they can before they tumble. Students will record their highest stack to a class list. The class list will be averaged and the final class average amount will be posted to the website. There will be extension ideas as well as a voice thread opportunity to add your thoughts and pictures. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Project Dates: October 12 - October 30, 2009 Classrooms will read the story "Where The Wild Things Are" -- (there will also be a movie version released on Oct 16) Students/Teachers will use a project wiki to add pictures and extend the story line beyond the book. Students may choose ANY character in the story and imagine what happened next. Classes may participate in a simultaneous reading from the book via Skype. HOLIDAY CARD EXCHANGE Project Dates: November 30 - December 18th, 2009 Classrooms will be paired up with 24 other participating classrooms. Classrooms are encouraged to create HAND MADE holiday cards to mail (1) to each classroom on their list. Classrooms can create a KMZ of their location to send to the project page from Google Earth. Teachers are encouraged to create a map (either wall or google earth) of where they receive cards from. Geography and math ideas will be provided. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREEN EGGS AND HAM Project Dates: April 1 - 30, 2010 Green Eggs and Ham Turns 50 in 2010. (smiles, and so does Jen!) Classrooms will read the book together. Classroom are invited to participate in a simultaneous reading of parts of the book. Classrooms are invited to participate in cooking, math, art, history, language, and literature ideas. It is possible that 2 more ideas will be added to this page during the year.