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