Holiday Cards and Letters

Today you will create Holiday Greeting Cards and Write a letter to Santa.

Activity # 1:Using Microsoft Publisher, you are to create a Holiday Greeting Card. The card must include a Holiday poem centered around the theme: Winter, Kwanzaa, Christmas, or Hanukah . Create a cover, and inside body. Include clip are from the clip art gallery in Microsoft Office. Do not get any clipart from the internet!! Be sure to personalize it by including your name on the back of the card.

Activity # 2

You are to write a persuasive letter to Santa Claus. Whether you believe or not, this assignment is to persuade Santa in to believing that you deserve you gift requests. Go to http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/letter_generator/ to write your letters. Save your work, print out your letters and turn them in.

Blog Question: What do you want for Christmas? What is your 1# thing that you would like to get for Christmas this year? or What is your Holiday wish? Please respond in one paragraph (5 sentences).

Glogsters! Express Yourself

Students will Create a Glogster at edu.glogster.com (student logins are located behind my desk - ask teacher)

Include Titles: “ All About Me”, “Your Name” , headlines for your stickers. And bubbles for your pictures.

Make 5 stickers:
1. Information Sticker: “ Hello, my name is….” Give age, grade, school, etc.
2. List 10 goals that you would like to complete within the next 10 years.
3. List all hobbies, activities you like to do for fun.
4. Include 10 words “adjectives that describe yourself” –your characteristics
5. On a sticker write what you would like to be when you grow up and why.

Create / include at least 4 pictures, graphics, clipart:
Include your favorite singers, sports figure, team, food, places to visit, hobbies, a picture of yourself, and future occupation, etc.

Videos: You may add 2 to 3 videos to your Glog. The videos must be in good taste, represent something interesting about you, and must include a player.

Remember to decorate, design and personalize your Glogsters!

Save your Glogsters as: All About Me – Your Name.

Blog Question of the day: What would you like to be when you grow up? Why did you choose this occupation?