Playnormous Questions

Parents - just have your child respond to the question as a "comment" to this blog. Thanks so much for your help!!!

1. How are Playnormous games used in your classroom or library?

2. Which one of our health games is your favorite and why?

3. Why should you be selected to win a free Monster iMac?

4. How have Playnormous games impacted you, your classroom, or your library?

iMAC Give Away!

Below, you will find a flyer about a free computer give-away for our classroom. This is very exciting because 2 of our SBISD schools have already won! Please have your child play around on this website and respond to what they have learned about being healthy on www.playnormous.com website.

Creativity is the name of the game and with technology - the sky is the limit! I know that these kids can do it!!!

Race to Zero

Number of Players: 2 +

Materials: Die & Base 10 Blocks (Dimes / Pennies)

Directions:

This game will take 7 rolls to complete using the die!

Each player begins with 100. (They need to have at least 10 dimes & 20 pennies)
Roll the die. Whatever the number is that is facing up – is the number that you will subtract from 100.
Decide whether or not to take away the number in 10’s or 1’s. (For example, if you roll a 5 – then you can either take away 50 or 5 – not both!)
The players then build the numbers and practicing trading the ten for ten ones.
Continue until you have rolled the die at least 7 times.
The person closest to 0 is the winner.
The hard part of the game is making the decision to take away the number in 10’s or 1’s without going below 0!
Lastly, players have to participate in all 7 rolls of the die, in order to win!

Have fun playing!

Modeled Drawing

State Presentations

Here are some skills that your child used / and or learned to create these products:

Cooperative Learning (Being able to use the skills of peers to create a product, while working together to solve problems!)
Access the district server and save into personalized folders;
Download pictures to the server;
Upload pictures from the server;
Import .gifs to Microsoft PowerPoint and then export them as a .jpeg;
Toggle between Microsoft Word and the Internet;
Use of the "Ctrl" + "Prnt Scrn" to capture pictures on the screen and crop and save them as a .jpeg;

Use of the Internet for research:

http://www.50states.com/
www.flickr.com/
Discovery Education

Access Image Generators:
http://www.bighugelabs.com/
http://www.wordle.net/

Upload files to the Internet and create video:
http://www.animoto.com/

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Utah

Colorado

Reflections for Hanakkah & France

Spin the Dreidel

The legend has it that the game of Dreidel was developed in Eastern Europe hundreds of years ago. When the Jews were forbidden to study Torah, they used the game of Dreidel as a decoy for studying. They pretended to be playing and gambling but were actually praying and learning.

The four sides of the dreidel are decorated with the first four letters from the Hebrew phrase Nes gadol hayah sham, which means, A great miracle happened here.

Objects Needed:

• 1 dreidel


• pennies (these can be m&m's, skittles, rocks, etc.)

How to play:

• Everyone begins with 10 items.
• Before you begin to play, each student needs to put one item in the middle of your playing area.
• Each player needs to take turns spinning the dreidel.
• Follow directions based on the letter that is face – up when the dreidel stops.
• Continue to play until one player has all the items.

Nun = Take nothing from the pot.
Gimmel = Take the whole pot.
Hay = Take half the pot.
Shin = Add two items to the pot.