Into the Book

Here is a really neat site I found that will help students develop better understanding of the thinking strategies. This is an interactive site. Just click on the kids get into the book. You will have to register and get a user key. Make sure that you write this down so you do not forget. It will track your progress through the site.

Into the Book

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Hi All

We are starting measurement, perimeter, and area this week. The spelling words are from our investigation of plane figures next week and will combine spelling and math quizzes into one test. Students will write the name under the figure. They will get credit on the math part even if they spell it wrong. There are several links up for our new math and I will try to get the videos and tall tale podcasts linked here soon.

 

Symmetry

Cute site for playing with symmetry.

Drawing Symmetry 

Academic Skill Builders

Here is a fun site with arcade like games to practice skills.

Academic Skill Builders

Mystery Sites

We are reading mystery stories this week. Here are some links to mystery activities.

MysteryNet

42explore links to some mystery sites

Some Links for Rocks, Minerals, and Rock Cycle Research

Earthquakes, Volcanoes,  Plate Tectonics. and Tsunami

Earthquakes for kids, Plate Tectonics Links, Volcanoes

How Tsunamis work , National Geographic Tsunami article , Volcano Vidoes

Pacific ring of fire , Volcano Explorer ,

Rocks, Minerals, Fossils, and Rock Cycle

Rock Cycle Links Yahoo Kids , Minerals Links Yahoo Kids ,

How Rocks Are Formed Links , Fossils for kids ,  Fossil facts , Fun Fossil Facts ,

Poetry Contest

Hi all,

The students have a poetry assignment that we are working on today and tomorrow. They are to write an original poem no more than 20 lines and use one of the poetry forms we have worked with this year. We have talked about list poems, name poems, rhyming,non-rhyming, alliteration, onomatopoeia, silly poems, poems about a topic. The students have the option to enter these poems in a  poetry contest. Here is the link to the online submission form. They will have time to work on them in school and can type them into a word document and bring home for you to enter them or if you give permission to your child they can enter here at school.

Poetry Contest

Comic Creator

Hi All

We started to mess around with a new resource called Bitstrips. It is a really neat program that allows you to make comics quickly and easily. We will be using this for a project in the near future so please let your child play and experiment with it. All comics have to be approved by me before they are made public. Some students need to complete an introductory assignment tonight if they did not finish in class.

Fraction Tiles and Today’s Math Lesson

Here is a link to the fraction tiles we used in today’s lesson.

Fraction Tiles

Here is a link to a video we made of today’s lesson. There are two videos. Please pause the video and  and use the fraction tiles to find the answers.

Part 1

Here is the answer to the question posed at the end of the video if you are stuck you can watch the first part for a clue then we share what the class came up with.

Part 2

Branches of Government Presentations

Here is our class presentation about the branches of government.

Executive Branch

Legislative Branch

Judicial Branch