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Friday 8th:

Monday 4th:

- Part 1) Review  (click to comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view f17 example folder here)
4. Review key points from last week & Announcements

• Click here to view your ratings summary graphs from last week

• If you did not complete the weekly reflections form for last week, please click here to do so: 3.3r Reflections Form
• Only 3 more weeks until Winter Break!
• Click here to check your Progress Report Grades
• Please bring Earbuds this week for Santa Tracker activities all month!

5. Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• Play Wrap Battle (https://santatracker.google.com/wrapbattle.html) at Google’s Santa Tracker Village
• Skitch the round Wrap Battle symbol and link it to the game, like my example
• Challenge: can you make the symbol round like my example below?
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6. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will…  (click to comment)

1. Today we have these objectives  (all f17 objectives to date)

• Practice keyboard coordinations skills while playing Wrap Battle
• Collect all important information related to the week ahead
• Choose a Latest News article from Newsela to summarize and give your opinions about

2. Page 1: This Week @BMS

• All links that you’ll need for this page are included in the notes section of your assignment

• Here are the 5 things you need on your page (All LINKS are in the notes section of your page)

1. A title which includes Week 15
2. The Newsletter for your grade level with any Projects, Tests and Assessments highlighted
3. This week at BMS
4. The Countdown until our last day of school for this semester (Dec 22nd)
5. This week from our Public Calendar

• Here’s my example page
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3. Page 2: The World Around Me

• Choose any Latest News article you like from Newsela: https://newsela.com/articles/#/rule/latest Here’s how to sign-in so you can see the full articles: 

• Some articles are available in Spanish if that’s helpful to you, but your writing must be in English

• Add these 6 things to your template (which has examples already on it for you!)

1. A link to your specific article by the Newsela Wordart
2. At least 2 related images from the article itself or from a Google Search on related terms
3. ‘Colorize’ the closest category label for your article, or mark it somehow, like with a check mark, smiley, etc.
4. Add a symbol for thumbs up, meh, or thumbs down (or colorize on that’s already there) showing whether or not you liked the article
5. Summarize the article (tell me briefly what the story is about) with at least 2 sentences in your own words
6. Give your opinion of the article in 1 or 2 sentences

• Here’s my example
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments!  (click to comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
• Wrap Battle: https://santatracker.google.com/wrapbattle.html
• Newsela: https://newsela.com/articles/#/rule/latest

2. f17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Practice keyboard coordinations skills while playing Wrap Battle
• Collect all important information related to the week ahead
• Choose a Latest News article from Newsela to summarize and give your opinions about

- Part 4) Through?  (click to comment)

1. Checkout your grades for the 3rd Progress Reporting period (you’ll get your report cards on Thursday) and our chilly, wet forecast for this week 

• Logon here to check your grades
• https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=78602&MR=1
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Tuesday 5th:

- Part 1) Review   (click-2-comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view f17 example folder here)
4. Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

• Review yesterday’s tasks list to see what you should have accomplished & Announcements

• Practice keyboard coordinations skills while playing Wrap Battle
• Collect all important information related to the week ahead
• Choose a Latest News article from Newsela to summarize and give your opinions about

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h

• Find an unusual Christmas Tree and add a link to where you found it

• Here’s my Origami Christmas Tree example linked to instructions on how to make it:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWS1q8zFFc
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• Open this Hidden Object puzzle in a new tab (or click here) for a larger view to Snip and solve
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• Here’s my example warmup
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5. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

1. Today we have these learning goals  (all f17 objectives to date)

• Practice your hidden object finding skills
• Create a fun Winter Scene with Santa’s Canvas
• Add an event to your personal Google Calendar

• Create an animated notebook page using your calendar in month view

2. Page 3: Santa’s Canvas Scene

• Create a fun scene using Santa’s Canvas. Checkout all of the controls on the left (purple) and bottom (white) panels while you are creating to see what each of them does

• Santa’s Canvas: https://santatracker.google.com/santascanvas.html
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• Here’s what you need on your page

1. The Santa’s Canvas symbol from the Santa Tracker Village: https://santatracker.google.com/village.html
2. A title: Santa’s Canvas using a decorative font from our Wordart Collection
3. A Skitch of your Winter Scene created in Santa’s Canvas

• Here’s my example
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3. Page 4: Animated Calendar Page

• Here’s what we’re trying to create

• Add the last day of school for the fall semester to your personal Google Calendar. Here’s how:

• Video help adding a calendar event to the month view: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CQH7jS0cyxkXNicGkr813OUVHm5nzgj9

• Search Google for these 2 gifs to save to your desktop

1. A fun celebration gif like my dancing penguins: Click here for help with this search
2. A falling snow gif with a transparent background: Click here for help with this search

• Add your animations to your calendar

• Video help adding animations to calendar page: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17s32knFTV0uT3UYJQ1ptBYxqiToidH02/view

• Here’s my example (click to view a large animated version)

- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
• Santa Tracker Village: https://santatracker.google.com/village.html
• Santa’s Canvas: https://santatracker.google.com/santascanvas.html
• Video help adding a calendar event to the month view: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CQH7jS0cyxkXNicGkr813OUVHm5nzgj9
• Video help adding animations to calendar page: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17s32knFTV0uT3UYJQ1ptBYxqiToidH02/view
• Google Calendars: https://calendar.google.com

2. f17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Practice your hidden object finding skills
• Create a fun Winter Scene with Santa’s Canvas
• Add an event to your personal Google Calendar
• Create an animated notebook page using your calendar in month view

- Part 4) Through?   (click-2-comment)

1. Checkout our updated big weather change forecast starting this morning… tomorrow’s high temp is only expected to be 440 with lots of rain

• https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/tx/bastrop/78602
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Wednesday 6th:

- Part 1) Review   (click-2-comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view f17 example folder here)
4. Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

• Review yesterday’s tasks list to see what you should have accomplished & Announcements

• Practice your hidden object finding skills
• Create a fun Winter Scene with Santa’s Canvas
• Add an event to your personal Google Calendar
• Create an animated notebook page using your calendar in month view

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h

• Play the the Chrome Experiment called Bounce: http://1000.chromeexperiments.com/#/experiment/bounce
• Use this symbol and link for your

• 
• http://1000.chromeexperiments.com/

• If you get a message like you see below, just Skitch the message you see and complete your own warmup!

• Here’s my example (my high score so far is 613, but I’ll try to improve it today)
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5. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

1. Today we have these learning goals  (all f17 objectives to date)

• Practice and improve your digital coordination and reaction time with the Bounce app
• Practice coding with Code Boogie
• Create 2 virtual Christmas Cookies

• Test the Fresh Paint App to see if we can use it in class

2. Page 5: Code Boogie

• Code your way through dance class in today’s app from Santa Tracker Village: https://santatracker.google.com/village.html

• Code Boogie: https://santatracker.google.com/codeboogie.html
• Choose the Dance Class mode, like this: (You can try the freestyle mode afterwards if you like)
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• Here’s what you need on your page

1. The Code Boogie symbol from the Santa Tracker Village: https://santatracker.google.com/village.html
2. A title: Code Boogie using any favorite Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
3. A Skitch of your final stage in Code Boogie

• Here’s my example
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3. Page 6: Virtual Christmas Cookie Designer

• Create 2 cookie designs at the site below

• Virtual Christmas Cookie Designer: http://www.theoworlds.com/christmas/
• You may need to click ‘Allow’ for this Flash application to run

• Add a Skitch of the site header linked to the site and your 2 designs, like this example:
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4. Page 7: Fresh Paint App Test

• I just want to make sure you can load and run this application. View this video to see how to load it:

• Video help loading Fresh Paint: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hVGvEgM1SEEsQLx8xZiSWa8HLw34uWZm

• Paint something quick and easy like the pine tree in the video
• Skitch your result to your page and add the symbol below

• If it works
• 
• If it DOES NOT WORK
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• Here’s my example if it works:
• 
• ...and my example if it doesn’t work
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
• Bounce: http://1000.chromeexperiments.com/#/experiment/bounce
• Santa Tracker Village: https://santatracker.google.com/village.html
• Code Boogie: https://santatracker.google.com/codeboogie.html
• Virtual Christmas Cookie Designer: http://www.theoworlds.com/christmas/
• Video help loading Fresh Paint: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hVGvEgM1SEEsQLx8xZiSWa8HLw34uWZm

2. f17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5
• Page 6
• Page 7

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Practice and improve your digital coordination and reaction time with the Bounce app
• Complete Code Boogie in Dance Class Mode
• Create 2 virtual Christmas Cookies
• Test the Fresh Paint App to see if we can use it in class

- Part 4) Through?   (click-2-comment)

1. Checkout  these sites about Christmas traditions from around the world!

• http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/
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• http://www.history.com/topics/christmas/christmas-traditions-worldwide
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Thursday 7th:

- Part 1) Review   (click-2-comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view f17 example folder here)
4. Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

• Review yesterday’s tasks list to see what you should have accomplished & Announcements

• Practice and improve your digital coordination and reaction time with the Bounce app
• Complete Code Boogie in Dance Class Mode
• Create 2 virtual Christmas Cookies
• Test the Fresh Paint App to see if we can use it in class

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h

• Add the symbol and link below and link it to

• AI Quick Draw: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/#
• 

• Need ideas? Click here>>> Quick Draw Data: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data
• Add your results screen to your warmup. Here’s my example (no laughing!!!)
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• Here’s my completed warmups file for the week:
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5. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

1. Today we have these learning goals  (all f17 objectives to date)

• Sketch with AI
• Practice coding with the Carrot Coding Doodle
• Practice your geometry puzzle-solving skills with Present Bounce

2. Page 8: Carrot Coding Doodle

• Carrot Coding Doodle: https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-50-years-of-kids-coding
• Follow the directions in the built-in tutorials and complete the 6 stages of the Doodle
• Here’s what goes on your page

1. The flapping owl from the Doodle Page (can you find it?)
2. Your coding results (click the map symbol at the red arrow below to see the purple pop-up with your results)
3. The URL for the Coding Doodle

3. Page 9: Present Bounce

• Play Present Bounce: https://santatracker.google.com/presentbounce.html
• Add these 3 things to your page

1. The play button from Santa Tracker Village: https://santatracker.google.com/village.html
2. A title: Present Bounce
3. Your game over score (can you beat my present bounce personal best of 2604?)

• Challenge: can you get your elf’s mouth to move like mine?

• Here’s my example
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
• AI Quick Draw: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/#
• Quick Draw Data: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data
• Carrot Coding Doodle: https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-50-years-of-kids-coding
• Santa Tracker Village: https://santatracker.google.com/village.html
• Present Bounce: https://santatracker.google.com/presentbounce.html

2. f17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5
• Page 6
• Page 7
• Page 8
• Page 9

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Sketch with AI
• Practice coding with the Carrot Coding Doodle
• Practice your geometry puzzle-solving skills with Present Bounce

- Part 4) Through?   (click-2-comment)

1. Checkout this very recent news about AI teaching itself chess (given only the game rules and no strategies) and after just 4 hours of learning, beating the best chess software currently in existence

• https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/12/ai-alphago-zero-started-from-scratch-to-become-best-at-chess-go-and-japanese-chess-within-hours.html
• Explore more related information from this Google Search
• 
• ...and view more AI Quick Draw examples here: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data/spoon
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Friday 8th: