Check out this The Polar Express website! There are tons of hidden gems here to explore, from a snowflake maker to screen savers and wallpapers. This would be a great way to get your students excited about either reading the book or watching the movie. All aboard The Polar Express!

Check out this interactive Olympics medal tally and scorecard from iDashboards. It is really quite fascinating! You can check the medal status by Country or event and see some pretty cool statistics in near real-time. Have a look!

100 Snowballs is a fun interactive from ABCya.com. Simply touch and drag the snowballs to create your own image, as long as you use 100 snowballs. If your class is reading 100 books, add a snowball as a way keep up with how many books the class has read.

Here is a really cool snowflake maker called Snowflake Workshop that works great on the SMART Board. Just click on the pencil and draw the cutting lines. Then click on the scissors and watch your snowflake generate. You can save your snowflake for it to be shown in the gallery or even send it to your friends. Check it out! It has some snazzy holiday background music as well.

The 2009-2010 Winter Wonderland Project is now open for registration!

The Winter Wonderland Project is an online project for grades K-3 that includes winter-themed technology activities with reading, writing, and math components. Registration will open on Wednesday, November 18th. The Project will begin December 1st and end February 28th. Teachers who participate will share student work on their own personal page(s) on the wiki. Suggested thematic activities and resources for each month will be provided. We will have a Featured Activity each month that we hope all classes will be able to complete. We have chosen our Featured Activity to introduce you to some new tools or websites or new uses for tools you already use. We do realize that there may be times when sites are blocked at schools or schools do not have access to the programs or tools used. If you cannot complete the Featured Activity we would still love your participation in the Winter Wonderland Project.

Please visit the Winter Wonderland Wiki at http://winterwonderland.wikispaces.com/ to register, learn about the planned activities, or to get more information about the project.

Thank you,

Winter Wonderland Project Coordinators

Amber Coggin, Nedra Isenberg, & Vicky Sedgwick