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=**‍Welcome to Room 321!!!!** =

Wiki Begins! Using WIKI for the Virtual World/Technology piece of room 321 for (but not limited to)... -Growing the concept of __//**Professional Learning Community.**//__ -Posting assignments, work, homework, news, week endings, etc. -Resource for absent community members. -Collaboration for all in and connected to our classroom. -Reflecting, editing, adjusting, reacting to our work, and any other appropriate use of our WIKI. -Will allow for collaboration with all in our class - WIKI Community!

__//**WIKI HINTS as you learn how engage with our WIKI**//__ -Simply __//**click on the "pages" in the upper right corner**//__ to engage with the topic at hand. -The **//__top right of every "page" you enter__//** has an "**//__edit"__//** tab you must select to edit/add to the page. -**//__You must save your input__//** to the page you are on, __//**by hitting "save"**//__ on the __//**top right of the page**//__. -You can __//**open a discussion blog**//__ from the homepage by clicking on the **//__"Discussion" tab at the top-middle__//** of the page.

Please use school appropriate communication and choices with our WIKI. Anyone not doing so will be held accountable and suffer a consequence for this choice. I am confident this will not be an issue.

Enjoy! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Miss Gannon

__**Christmas Trivia**__

The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ's Mass.

The first president to decorate the white house Christmas tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.

Germany made the first artificial Christmas trees. They were made of goose feathers and dyed green.

Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.

The first Christmas cards were vintage and invented in 1843, the Victorian Era. (You can read more about the history of Christmas Cards [|here.])

"It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie.

Rudolph" was actually created by Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's for a holiday promotion. The rest is history.

The Nutcracker" is the most famous Christmas ballet.

Jingle Bells" was first written for Thanksgiving and then became one of the most popular Christmas songs.

If you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," you would receive 364 gifts.

The poinsettia plant was brought into the United States from Mexico by Joel Poinsett in the early 1800's.

Holly berries are poisonous.

Contrary to common belief, poinsettia plants are non-toxic.

Mistletoe was chosen as Oklahoma's state flower in 1893 and later changed to the state floral emblem.

In 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens in just six weeks.

The first state to recognize the Christmas holiday officially was Alabama.

Christmas became a national holiday in America on June, 26, 1870.

An angel told Mary she was going to have a baby.

Black Friday is not the busiest shopping day of the year. Although it varies, it usually lands sometime in December.

Clearing up a common misconception, in Greek, X means Christ. That is where the word "X-Mas" comes from. Not because someone took the "Christ" out of Christmas.

Traditionally, Christmas trees are taken down after Epiphany.

More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.

In Mexico, wearing red underwear on New Year's Eve is said to bring new love in the upcoming year.