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__Grade 4 Media Center Class __ Welcome Back to School! "4th is 1st" in the Media Center. The 4th grade will begin their keyboarding lessons in the Media Center for the first week. We will continue to practice throughout the year.

**Keyboarding Page Click Here!**

Food Pyramid and Good Nutrition

[|Good Nutrition is Fun, Fun, Fun!]
Check Out our Fabulous PowerPoints Here!

Facelift for a Masterpiece
 * 1) **Choose** DaVinci's "Mona Lisa", Andrew Wyeth's Faraway, Munch's "The Scream", or "American Gothic" by Grant Wood.
 * 2) **Open Photoshop** to create a Masterpiece. Choose a famous painting and insert your face.
 * 3) **Open Microsoft WORD** that tells about your Masterpiece.

[|Check out some artwork here: www.googleartproject.com]

Take a virtual tour of museums around the world in real time.

Internet Safety - Netsmartz Kids Website below. http://www.netsmartzkids.org/LearnWithClicky Take this Internet Safety Quiz to see how much you know about surfing the web! http://www.safekids.com/quiz/index.html

January 2014 __Create a Graph in Microsoft Word. __ Open Microsoft Word and use the Data from your class lesson to create a Bar Graph. Click Below to Open Example and Instructions. 

Library Research Wikispace - Do plants need us or do we need plants? media type="youtube" key="gaNj01DQNhk" height="91" width="121" Find a non-fiction book about plants or flowers. You will complete the Library Skills handout. Click on the link above for Research Internet Links on Plants and Flowers. You will then create a PowerPoint presentation including your information on your plants and flowers research. Have Fun! [|Check out this Plants for Kids link!]

[|Wordle.net] Make a graphic design out of Easter or Lent words and print out.

Let's create a story in [|Click Here: StoryBird!] Choose your favorite artist and become an author.

[|Ellis Island Click Here!] [|News on the Go!] [|Vatican Sistine Chapel]
 * Special Links: **
 * Newspaper On-line **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sistine Chapel Virtual Tour **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Who will we Skype with this year? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Let's Skype with students just like you - what they are learning, what sports are they playing, and their favorite activities. What questions would you ask???
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Skype Across America - Let's Connect **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Open Google Earth to fly around the world to our destination.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Calculate the distance from Southampton, PA [|Google Distance Calculator]
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Find out the temperature and weather conditions at [|www.weather.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Spring Weather project <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Rain and thunderstorms too...Check out this weather website: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 1.5;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Using Photoshop layers let's create a stormy picture.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Create a Christmas Greeting! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Open up Microsoft Publisher and choose a card template. Create some holiday art in Photoshop or search for some free Christmas clip art to use for your card. Write a Christmas message to someone special and don't for forget to have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!