Monday+10+December

//**Well, I'm not in today. I've got a late-morning dentist appointment, then I plan on whining the rest of the day. All things considered, I'd much rather be with you, but a man's gotta chew.

__Language Arts__**

Since I really would like to be the one to deliver the Shakespeare plan to you, today will be a very easy, Christmas-prep type day for you. You've got a few options to work with. Some are school-based, some are not. If the behaviour is good, I think Mr. MacDougall will be happy. Maybe he'll sing you a Christmas Carol!

Research for your Social Studies Project (8F-H only). You have a limited amount of time to get this done. There are lots of sites about Christmas cultures, etc. Get some work done!
 * Option 1.**

Play one of these online Christmas activities: [|Christmas colouring] [|Christmas Crossword] [|Christmas match memory game]
 * Option 2.**

Ok, this is weird...Make your own [|Dancing Christmas e-card]. You will need to have photos saved on your laptop, or access to them online and save them in order to do this. If you follow the directions, it's pretty simple. If the photo you choose is too big or too small for the 'face frame', use the scale photo button to make it fit. Then you can move it around with the mouse to make it look good. My only advice is to NOT use the back button or anything like that. It'll make you start all over again. It takes a while, but it's pretty funny when you're finished. Then you can send it to people. Check [|my demo] out to see the end result. One last thing...MAKE SURE YOU HIT THE 'COPY YOURSELF' BUTTON. Then you can paste it into email, etc. If you do not do this, your work will be lost and you will have to do it THREE TIMES BEFORE YOU FIGURE IT OUT!!! Man, what a waste of time that was.
 * Option 3.**

Anyway..this is a lot of fun. If you haven't got access to pictures of yourself, well...I don't know what to tell you. Find pictures of basketball players online and do those up.


 * __Social Studies__ 8E**

No options here...time to wrap up the mapping unit so we can move on to Christmas fun.

1. Complete the activity on Topographic maps (page 10-11). Do all except #4. 2. Review your notes on large- and small-scale maps. Then move on to page 12-13. Read the directions, and do 1-4 (exclude 1b).


 * Have a great day!**//