Singular and Plural Nouns

Today we completed a Spelling crossword puzzle on page 50 to practice for tomorrow's test.

Here are our Spelling Links:

Spelling City

Spelling Words

Our Grammar skill this week is identifying nouns. We identified singular and plural nouns today and worked to practice making nouns plural on Grammar workbook pages 41 and 42.  Here are a few practice games:

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

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