{"id":2897,"date":"2016-12-22T13:56:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T18:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2016-12-22T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T18:56:38","slug":"combat-christmas-craziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/combat-christmas-craziness\/","title":{"rendered":"Combat Christmas Craziness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children are on Winter Break, the weather isn&#8217;t ideal for playing outside, and did we mention Christmas is in 3 days?! We were filled with Christmas spirit during GiGi University today and to combat our energy, we\u00a0searched North Pole via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Maps<\/a>\u00a0and found\u00a0a Santa Tracker! The Tracker lets you explore Santa&#8217;s Village! As you can see by our photos, we were able to use our Smart Board so that our entire class was able to\u00a0participate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/files\/2016\/12\/Jeff.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2899 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/files\/2016\/12\/Jeff-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/files\/2016\/12\/Jeff-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/files\/2016\/12\/Jeff.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several interactive games, videos, and opportunities to learn various facts. Our GiGi U students really enjoyed the matching game, which is timed! This made our students move quickly and work on their short-term memory. Another favorite was Santa Search.\u00a0This game gives you a handful of holiday characters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/files\/2016\/12\/Bethany.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2898 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/files\/2016\/12\/Bethany-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/files\/2016\/12\/Bethany-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/files\/2016\/12\/Bethany.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your children of any age are starting to get a case of the Christmas Crazies, head to the North Pole via Google Maps and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The children are on Winter Break, the weather isn&#8217;t ideal for playing outside, and did we mention Christmas is in 3 days?! We were filled with Christmas spirit during GiGi University today and to combat our energy, we\u00a0searched North Pole via Google Maps\u00a0and found\u00a0a Santa Tracker! The Tracker lets you explore Santa&#8217;s Village! As you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,15],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-down-syndrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/fortwayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}