Mountain Project

Here's a link to our Storytown online:

eBook

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW86gAzQH3g&t=159s - volcano video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOUN2hXvn6Y&t=8s - volcano video

Mountain Video - long (30 min.)

Find the Mountains - where mountains are located game

Students will create a mountain poster.  They selected whether they will work alone, with a partner, or with two partners.  This poster will replace the story test and will be graded on these criteria:

Mountain Type	Clearly Describe How Formed	Examples of these Mountains	Labeled, Colorful Picture	Neatness, Proper Spelling, Attractive Presentation
Mountain 1	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.
Mountain 2	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.
Mountain 3	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.

* Use vocabulary and science words to describe each kind of mountain and to label your pictures.  Words you may wish to include are strata, magma, crust, lava, eruption, ash, molten rock, vent, plates, layers, shift, pressure.

http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/mountains.htm - mountain facts

http://www.ducksters.com/geography/mountain_ranges.php - more facts

http://www.ducksters.com/geography/top_10_mountains.php - Top 10 Mountains

http://www.3dgeography.co.uk/mountain-diagrams - Detailed Mountain Facts 3-D

Our Grammar skill this week is identifying nouns.  Here are a few practice games:

https://www.turtlediary.com/games/noun.html or Noun Games

Here are our Spelling Links:

Spelling City

Spelling Words

Mountains

Here's a link to our story for tonight's homework:

eBook

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW86gAzQH3g&t=159s - volcano video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOUN2hXvn6Y&t=8s - volcano video

Mountain Video - long (30 min.)

Find the Mountains - where mountains are located game

Students will create a mountain poster.  They selected whether they will work alone, with a partner, or with two partners.  This poster will replace the story test and will be graded on these criteria:

Mountain Type	Clearly Describe How Formed	Examples of these Mountains	Labeled, Colorful Picture	Neatness, Proper Spelling, Attractive Presentation
Mountain 1	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.
Mountain 2	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.
Mountain 3	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.	/2 pts.

* Use vocabulary and science words to describe each kind of mountain and to label your pictures.  Words you may wish to include are strata, magma, crust, lava, eruption, ash, molten rock, vent, plates, layers, shift, pressure.

http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/mountains.htm - mountain facts

http://www.ducksters.com/geography/mountain_ranges.php - more facts

http://www.ducksters.com/geography/top_10_mountains.php - Top 10 Mountains

http://www.3dgeography.co.uk/mountain-diagrams - Detailed Mountain Facts 3-D

Our Grammar skill this week is identifying nouns.  Here are a few practice games:

https://www.turtlediary.com/games/noun.html or Noun Games

Here are our Spelling Links:

Spelling City

Spelling Words

Mountain Video

Mountain Video - long

Find the Mountains

Our Grammar skill this week is identifying nouns.  Here are a few practice games:

https://www.turtlediary.com/games/noun.html or Noun Games

Here are our Spelling Links:

Spelling City

Spelling Words

And a Link to our eBook:

eBook

Nouns

Our Grammar skill this week is identifying nouns.  Here are a few practice games:

https://www.turtlediary.com/games/noun.html or Noun Games

We worked today on common and proper nouns, and we worked on using abbreviations correctly.  

There is no Spelling test this week, but we will pick up with Unit 12 after the Thanksgiving break.

Spelling City

Spelling Words

This week we read "Mimicry and Camouflage" in Unit 11 from Storytown.
eBook

Mimicry and Camouflage Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxnIrI4LTzQ ***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pQg7e_sac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP0ySp-la9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nb47pO60oc

Sea Life :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB7tqiL-Eqs

Butterfly Camouflage and Mimicry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzIlT2PlbaM

Our Grammar skill this week is identifying nouns.  Here are a few practice games:

https://www.turtlediary.com/games/noun.html or Noun Games


Book Fair and Family Reading Night are THURSDAY.  My Block 1 attends Book Fair at 9:10-9:40, and Block 2 has Book Fair from 1:20-1:50.  After school Book Fair and Family Night is 6:00 - 7:30.  See you there!  I'll be in the library. 

Mimicry and Camouflage

There is no Spelling test this week, but we will pick up with Unit 12 after the Thanksgiving break.

Spelling City

Spelling Words

We are reading "Mimicry and Camouflage" this week in Unit 11 from Storytown.  Our story homework tonight is to reread this selection:

eBook

Mimicry and Camouflage Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxnIrI4LTzQ ***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pQg7e_sac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP0ySp-la9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nb47pO60oc

Sea Life :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB7tqiL-Eqs

Butterfly Camouflage and Mimicry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzIlT2PlbaM

Our Grammar skill this week is identifying nouns.  Here are a few practice games:

https://www.turtlediary.com/games/noun.html or Noun Games


Book Fair and Family Reading Night are THURSDAY.  My Block 1 attends Book Fair at 9:10-9:40, and Block 2 has Book Fair from 1:20-1:50.  After school Book Fair and Family Night is 6:00 - 7:30.  See you there!  I'll be in the library. 

Mimicry and Camouflage

There is no Spelling test this week, but we will pick up with Unit 12 after the Thanksgiving break.

Spelling City

Spelling Words

We are reading "Mimicry and Camouflage" this week in Unit 11 from Storytown.  Our story homework on Tuesday will be to reread this selection:

eBook

Mimicry and Camouflage Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxnIrI4LTzQ ***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pQg7e_sac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP0ySp-la9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nb47pO60oc

Sea Life :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB7tqiL-Eqs

Butterfly Camouflage and Mimicry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzIlT2PlbaM

Our Grammar skill this week is identifying nouns.  Here are a few practice games:

https://www.turtlediary.com/games/noun.html or Noun Games


Book Fair and Family Reading Night are THURSDAY.  My Block 1 attends Book Fair at 9:10-9:40, and Block 2 has Book Fair from 1:20-1:50.  After school Book Fair and Family Night is 6:00 - 7:30.  See you there!  I'll be in the library.

National Geographic Explorer Links

National Geographic Explorer Links

Here's the link to Unit 11 Spelling Words and Games for the test Friday:

Spelling City

Spelling Words

Tonight's reading homework (due Wednesday) is to read p. 10-17 "Gotcha!" in the National Geographic Explorer.  We will be using this story for a reading project this week.



Margay Cat Facts:

http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/margay_facts/250/

http://kids.mongabay.com/animal-profiles/margay.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhiOJY_1q5E - video

https://vimeo.com/22530225 - video

Mantis Shrimp Facts:

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/mantis-shrimp.htm

http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/mantis_shrimp_facts/620/

https://www.dogonews.com/2014/2/9/the-strange-and-fearless-mantis-shrimp - includes video

Netcasting Spider Facts:

http://australianmuseum.net.au/net-casting-spiders

https://www.creepycrawlies.info/net-casting-spider.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4APjXhBieyc - video

Archerfish Facts:

http://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Archerfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN3fKwAgc0I&feature=youtu.be - video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4G_MeUUZlI - video

Glowworm Facts:

http://oureverydaylife.com/fun-glow-worms-kids-14396.html

http://www.waitomo.com/waitomo-information/Pages/waitomo-for-kids.aspx

http://mothernatured.com/2011/08/14/whats-slimy-tiny-and-glows-out-of-its-hiney/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-gLxOanrfI - video

Humpback Whale Facts:

http://www.audubon.org/news/killer-bubbles-humpback-whales-use-bubble-nets-capture-prey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcdSsNF21Po - video

http://www.arkive.org/humpback-whale/megaptera-novaeangliae/video-08b.html - video

National Geographic Explorer Links

Here's the link to Unit 11 Spelling Words and Games for the test Friday:

Spelling City

Spelling Words

Tonight's reading homework (due Wednesday) is to read p. 10-17 "Gotcha!" in the National Geographic Explorer.  We will be using this story for a reading project this week.



Margay Cat Facts:

http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/margay_facts/250/

http://kids.mongabay.com/animal-profiles/margay.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhiOJY_1q5E - video

https://vimeo.com/22530225 - video

Mantis Shrimp Facts:

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/mantis-shrimp.htm

http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/mantis_shrimp_facts/620/

https://www.dogonews.com/2014/2/9/the-strange-and-fearless-mantis-shrimp - includes video

Netcasting Spider Facts:

http://australianmuseum.net.au/net-casting-spiders

https://www.creepycrawlies.info/net-casting-spider.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4APjXhBieyc - video

Archerfish Facts:

http://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Archerfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN3fKwAgc0I&feature=youtu.be - video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4G_MeUUZlI - video

Glowworm Facts:

http://oureverydaylife.com/fun-glow-worms-kids-14396.html

http://www.waitomo.com/waitomo-information/Pages/waitomo-for-kids.aspx

http://mothernatured.com/2011/08/14/whats-slimy-tiny-and-glows-out-of-its-hiney/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-gLxOanrfI - video

Humpback Whale Facts:

http://www.audubon.org/news/killer-bubbles-humpback-whales-use-bubble-nets-capture-prey

http://www.arkive.org/humpback-whale/megaptera-novaeangliae/video-08b.html - video

Schedule Conferences, Please!

DON'T FORGET to go online tons schedule your choice of Parent-Teacher Conference times!

Here are some Language Arts games:

Turtle Diary 4th Grade Games

 Preposition Games

Prepositions by the Bazillions

Today we wrote "Thankful" essays. 

Our Unit 10 Spelling Test is today.  It is a review unit.  Here's the link to Spelling City.

Book-it is OPTIONAL but highly encouraged.  Please read at home each evening, even if you are not keeping track on the Book-it calendar.