Week of Dec. 10-14

Only one full week and 2 more days until we get a little break for Christmas. I know you are excited! Please, complete the following activities.

Math:
Fruit shoot (only pick level 1 or 2)
Action Fraction
Fractions Game
Fruit shoot (only pick level 1)

Math tiles

Week of Dec.3rd-7th

I know that you are excited about getting out of school, but we still have 2 weeks and 2 days to complete. We need to finish our equivalent fractions study and complete our performance task on that. I am going to try to get you ready to do that by Thursday. Complete the activities I have listed to help get you ready.

Math:
Target Shoot
Fraction Frenzy
Matching Fractions (advanced)
Triplets (I beat this game, can you?)

Week of Nov.26th-30th

Welcome back, I hope you all enjoyed your week off. We are going to begin a new book as well as a new math unit! My goal is to finish both before we leave for our Christmas break. That means lots of work to do. Please complete the following activities.

Math:
Fractions Shoot
Fractions as Parts of sets
Prime Numbers
Melvin's Make a Match


Reading/Language Arts:
George Washington's Socks site

Week of November 12th-16th

This is our last week before Thanksgiving break. It is also Miss McKenzie's last week of full time teaching. I will be taking back over after we return from our break. I have missed teaching you all these last four weeks.

Complete the following activities:

Math:
Snork's 
Number invaders
Number eaters
Factor feeders

Reading:
Fling the Teacher
poetry theater (use this site to find your next poem for "Coffee Shop")

Week of Nov. 5th-9th

SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 I am finally updating my blog. I apologize for leaving the other one up so long. I think most of you know that my father-in-law died last week. It was a very sad day for my family and I have been out trying to help with everything. You should be seeing me a lot more, but Ms. McKenzie will still be teaching for 2 more weeks and then I will slowly start taking back some of the lessons. I have missed working with all of you so much! I am giving you some new activities for this week. Enjoy!

Math:
color world
quick math
grand slam math
calculator chaos
algebra puzzle

Reading:
Poetry for Kids
Fizzy Funny Fuzzy Poetry
Fling the Teacher

Week of Oct. 1st-5th AND 8th-12th

I am continuing this post, I think we need a little more work on the following activities.

Language Arts:
Prefix jeopardy
Building prefixes
Building words
suffixes
Short circuit
Sentence clubhouse
Fact/opinion quiz
synonym matchup
What's the main idea

Math:
Drag and Drop math (I want you to choose subtraction and do 10 problems)
Great American Math challenge (you can compete with other states and countries to see if we know more multiplication facts)
Grand Slam Math
Powerlines
Teacher Dodgeball (once you get through the first round, it will get a little harder)

Interesting stuff:
Make you own totem pole
Interactive buffalo (ever wonder how the Native Americans used the buffalo, use this link to find out)

Hi everyone!  I am planning on finishing Stone Fox this week. I am loving the book and you are doing a great job with the book.  I think I will begin literature circles really soon....I will know if you read my post if you ask me questions about what we will do in literature circles. :)

Please complete  the following activities this week.

Language Arts:
Vocabulary
"Stone Fox" word search
"Stone Fox" test ( will will take this later this week, don't go here until I tell you to do so)
Type of sentences practice
Sentence Clubhouse

Math:
Dynamite multiplication ( I will be adding the 7's to this week's test, when you play this game you MUST practice the 6's, 7's, 8's and 9's)
Division Dragons
Algebraic reasoning (If you are up for some harder work, this is the game for you)
Pumpkin Multiples
Weigh the Wangdoodles (I love this game)

Interesting stuff:
Star gazing
Virtual Solar System
Hopi Indians

Week of Sept.17th-21st

     We will be reading Stone Fox for the next two weeks, I think you are really going to enjoy this book. I wanted to take a break from the nonfiction we have been reading. You will not have activities on spelling city this week.

Reading:
Vocabulary Match
"Stone Fox" word search


Math:
Who wants to be a Millionaire?
Subtraction with a grid
Subtraction with a grid #2
Prodigi math
Subtraction blast (make sure you read this directions)

Week of Sept.10th-14th

We will continue to read our story about the Wright Brothers this week. We will have a reading, spelling and D.O.L. test this Friday. Our words are a little hard so make sure to visit Spelling City often this week. The following activities will help you with all the skills we are working on this week.

Spelling City
Vocabulary Match
Generalize
Making generalizations (this is a little difficult) You will need to click on the "making valid generalizations" link

Math
Estimation game
Estimating sums
rounding numbers
Estimating Valley Golf
properties of addition (scroll down to play the game)

Interesting reading:
Cerebral Palsy
History of Flight
History of Flight timeline
The Nine Planets

Week of Sept.3rd-7th

Hope you had a nice day off of school. We are going to read a new story this week, one that I think you will really enjoy. It is about the Wright brothers. I am going to post some activities for you to complete.

Reading/Language Arts:
Spelling City
Vocabulary Match
Generalize
Planting Sentences
The Sentence Trail


Math:
bar graphs
more bar graphs
data picking
Patty's Paints

The sites below are not games, however, if you are interested in learning new things.....you will like these.
The Moon (use this site if you want to learn some new things about the moon)
The 1903 Flight (can you tell me the graphic source used on this page?)
The First Flight
Kwakiutl Indians

Week of August 27th-31st

We are going to spend another week on our space theme. This week we will discuss the moon phases, a very difficult concept to understand. I am posting so games I would like for you to complete. :)

Spelling City
Vocabulary match
Wall of words ( I am posting this again b/c I don't think any of you played it!)
prefix concentration (I don't think you played this game either)
prefix match


Half court rounding
rounding numbers
population site  (this is not a game, this is a site I will be using in class)

seasons

Week of August 20th-24th

Good Monday morning!
   You all did a great job on your 50 states test! I am so proud of you. Knowing the 50 states will help you so much in S.S. this year. We have so much to learn about U.S. history. Below are some activities I would like for you to complete this week.

Spelling City
Vocabulary match
Monkey Business (this is a very easy game, but I thought you might like it.)
Sentence or Fragment
Wall of Words

rounding spaceships
rounding sharks
speedboats-comparing numbers

Week of August. 13th-17th

We will continue reading our biography about Jim Thorpe. You will need to be reading it at home as well as at school. I am listing the spelling words below since I have not put them on Spelling City.

1.family

2.reservation

3.agency

4.knowledge

5.encourage

6.uniforms

7.football

8.electricity

9.education

10. sports

11. recruiter

12.Olympics

13. athlete

14. hurdle

15.competitive

Please spend some time completing the following activities. I will give you class time if you finish all your school work on time. :)

Vocabulary Match 

Prefix match

prefix concentration

United States- level 1

United States -level 2

Conquer the States

Ameriquake

Place Value to 100,000 (play all 3 levels) 

One False move

Place Value Millionaire

Week of August 6th-10th

We are reading a very difficult story this week. Please complete the following activities. It is your responsibility to finish all of the activities.

Spelling City
Vocabulary Match
fact/opinion
capitalization and punctuation

Identify the digit
Mystery Number
Expanded form quiz

August 3rd

Welcome to my blog. This site will give you links to fun activities that I would like for you to complete. It is your job to read my posts and complete each activity. Today we will begin by having just a few activities for you to complete. Have fun!

Continents game
another continent game
Speed math
Squanky

We are down to 2 weeks of school! It has been a great year and you have made some unbelievable gains. I have loved teaching this class. :)

I am linking some fun activities for you to enjoy this week.

Papa's Taco Mia
Cyclop Physics
Ballooner

Week of April 9th-13th

Welcome back, only 1 week until the CRCT. Use these activities to help you prepare. Have fun.

Math:
Area and Perimeter
Shape Surveyor
Quadrilateral Quest
StarShip
Mini Train

Language Arts:
CRCT practice

Week of March 26th-30th

Only one week until Spring Break!!!

Math:
Bamzooki
Median, mean and mode
Soccer Math
football math
decimals jeopardy game

Language Arts:
text structure game
rooting out words
Digger and the Gang

Week of March 19th-23rd

You will have the same spelling words this week that you had last week. They are a little difficult so make sure you practice them.

Math:
The Legend of Dick and Dom
Roman numerals-Quia
Area and Perimeter-Funbrain
circumference of a circle-Knowledge box math games

Language Arts:
"It's Greek to Me"
Quia: Roots and Prefixes
Is this sentence correct?
There, their and they're
crystal castle
prefixes

Week of March 12th-16th

Field trip Friday to GSU!!! I hope you are excited. Please complete the following activities.

Language Arts:
root word match up
homophone game
another homophone game
oxymoron game (come see me and I will explain)


Math:
Fruit shoot (pick level 1 or 2)
equivalent fractions shoot
fraction shoot
decimal match-tenths
decimal match-hundredths

Week of March 5th-9th

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend......I sure did! Miss Bowden is beginning her lead teaching this week. I will post your spelling words later tomorrow because Miss Bowden is going to give you a pretest on them. If you score a 90% or better, you will not have spelling for the week. :) Please complete the following activities to help you understand what we are working on better.

Math:
adding/subtracting fractions (adapted mind)
adding mixed numbers (aaa math)
crack the code:addition (fact monster)
crack the code: multiplication (fact monster)
ordered pairs: using a grid (fact monster)

Language Arts:
Spelling City
Vocabulary Match
reference sources
irregular verbs

Week of Feb. 27th- March 2nd

Language Arts:

Vocabulary
Spelling City
homonyms
homophones
fact/opinion

Math:

Matching equivalent fractions
triplets-math playground
improper fractions to mixed numbers-(jamit.com)
mixed numbers to improper fractions (math playground)
finding grammy


Science:
light/sound game
mixing colors

Social Studies:
Boston Tea Party quiz
Boston Tea Party video (learn about a secret code)
Boston Tea Party jigsaw
Causes of the American Revolution (brainpop video)

Week of Feb.20th-24th

Welcome back! Wasn't that break exactly what you needed? I know I needed the rest. We have a lot of work to do before the CRCT. I am providing you some links for extra practice.

Language Arts:
Spelling City
Vocabulary Match
Verb Power

Math:
Parts of a set
Melvins Make-a-Match
Fractotron
Fraction Booster

Week of Feb.6th-10th

I am only posting math games this week. We will not be having any spelling words either, we will be finishing up our poetry unit. Let's work hard as we look forward to winter break.

Math:
Patch Tool (this is an explorations of reflections, rotations, and translations)
Polygon matching game
Triangle sort
graph mole
geometric figures game
types of polygons

Week of Jan. 30th- Feb. 3rd

Last week we didn't do a very good job of finishing our blog activities. We need to do a better job, you can scroll down to last week's post and play some of those games this week too.

Math activities:
Tangrams for kids
logic tangrams
Guess the angle
Ladybug maze
Turtle Pond

Language Arts:
Working with roots (this may only work in the computer lab)
prefixes and suffixes
Paint by idioms (make sure you click on "easy" before you start this game)
Wizards and Pigs

Week of Jan. 23rd-27th

Well, we are back into the swing of things! We have a lot of work to do. Please complete the following activities while you have free time or while you are in the computer lab.

Language Arts:
Spelling City
Vocabulary Match
Homographs
Sentence Ball
A Carousel of Verbs
Cause and Effect
Reference sources

Math:
matching shapes
angles jeopardy game
robopacker
What's the point (choose "easy" on this game to practice the 1st quadrant)
geometric terms
pool geometry
measuring angles (I will be using this in class, do not play this during computer time)

Science/S.S.
The weather game
Weather for Kids (this is a fun site with lots of activities you might enjoy at home)
EdHeads (this is a fun site to help you learn how to predict the weather)
Mr. Jefferson's Magical Maze
History Globe (how well would you do as a colonist?)

Week of Jan. 17th-20th

I am so excited, Miss Bowden begins her student teaching with us tomorrow. :) I know you will make her feel very welcome. However, we have to show her how things run in Mrs. Owens's classroom. Please explain to her how we use my blog throughout the week.

Math:
Billy Bug
Locate the Aliens
Number Monster
Bar graph quiz

Language Arts:
What can you infer?
Inference Battleship
Inference riddles

Science:
Droplet
Water word scramble game

Social Studies:
Colonial Williamsburg

Week of Jan.9th-13th

Well.....now we really have to get down to business! Half the year is over and before you know it, the CRCT test will be here. We still have a lot of work to do. If you continue to work on activities I place on my blog and work hard in class, I promise you will be ready!

Language Arts activities:
The Thesaurus
Author's Purpose battleship
Sequencing

Math activities:
math data
Bedtime Bandits
Cash out
Airmadillos

Science/S.S. activities:
map game
Colonial jobs (read the information about different jobs during colonial times)
Water cycle quiz
water cycle wordsearch

Jan. 5th-6th

Welcome back!!!! I am putting up an encyclopedia site because I want to use it for something in class. There is nothing you will need to do on the blog this week.

Fact Monster


Here are some math activities you can work on this week.

place value racing
Adding money
Basketball multiplication