Monday, December 17, 2018

Spelling City Unit 14 & Compound Word Activities

Be sure to take your Spelling Pretest:

Spelling City Unit 14

Hilight or circle any errors on the half sheet of paper, put it in your folder to take home and study.  Now you can play your spelling games.

Click here for more Compound Word Activities and Games:  

Compound Word Activities

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Idioms

Watch this video to learn some common idioms:

Common Idiom Video for Kids


Look at this list of idioms and their meanings:

Idiom List

Play these idiom games:

Idiom Games

Here's another video:

More Common Idioms

Friday, November 30, 2018

Unit 12 Spelling City & HOMOPHONES

Take your Pretest, then you can fill out the half sheet and put it in your folder to study at home.

Unit 12 Spelling City (Homophones)

Now you can play some spelling games: Homophone Games


NearPod Lesson:  https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/Ixos1O66Mu

Friday, November 16, 2018

Wonderopolis

Select a "Bones" Wonderopolis and read about it:

https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonders?q=bones

Take some notes as you read, and be prepared to discuss what you have learned!

Movers & Shakers Quizlet

Practice your vocabulary words here: Movers & Shakers Quizlet

Then take your Quizlet test on paper.

Be sure to have your name on your paper and hand it in!  You can draw the pictures if you have time.

Spelling City Unit 11

Spelling City Unit 11 Pretest and Games:

Spelling City Unit 11

Be sure to take the half sheet home to practice any misspelled words!

Thanksgiving Near Pod

Thanksgiving Part 1

Thanksgiving Part 2

Monday, November 12, 2018

Word It Out Link

Use this site to type in AT LEAST TEN of your spelling words.  Make a fun word web...

www.worditout.com

Friday, November 9, 2018

Spelling City Unit 10

Please take your Pretest.  Be sure to make on your paper the words that you need to study.  Put the paper in your take-home folder.

Spelling City Unit 10

After you take the pretest, you may play Spelling City Unit 10 games.

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Spelling City Unit 9

Please take the pretest on Monday:

Spelling City Unit 9

After taking the pretest, you may play some practice games.

Be sure to take home the half sheet of paper with any errors circled.

Friday, October 19, 2018

Friday, October 12, 2018

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Spelling Unit 3

Click to take the pretest on Monday.
Circle any misspelled words on your spelling list paper.
Put the spelling list paper in your folder to practice at home.

Spelling City Unit 3

After you take the pretest you may play Unit 3 games.

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Bee Links

Bumblebee Facts:
http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-bumblebees/
https://pestworldforkids.org/pest-guide/bees/
http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/bumblebee_facts/582/
http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/facts/bumblebee_k6.html
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/beeandwasp.html
https://www.natgeokids.com/za/discover/animals/insects/honey-bees/#!/register
http://justfunfacts.com/interesting-facts-about-bumblebees/

Bumblebee Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta154f5Rp5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUPzbTuJlgc
http://justfunfacts.com/interesting-facts-about-bumblebees/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2J8n1wqNLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2jfMHWYTDk

Aesop's Fable - Bear and the Bees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPZz_jUlPbQ

How to Draw a Bee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho4aUHY6fss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYfODWA8puY

Hummingbird Links

Wild Kratts Hummingbird:
http://pbskids.org/video/

Hummingbird Facts:
http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-hummingbirds/
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/hummingbird.html

Hummingbird Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn87hCEpO7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkAhYmXWuFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPRswRWZ23Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh4YU_Ix8pQ

Draw a Hummingbird:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT1qfe0Idhs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Ee3y9WR88

Monday, April 30, 2018

Spelling City

Spelling City Unit 29

John Muir and Stickeen

This week we will discuss vocabulary and read the story "John Muir and Stickeen: An Icy Adventure with a No-Good Dog."  Practice Workbook page 168 will help us to review the vocabulary. Homework this week is to reread the story found on pages 754-768.

The spelling test will be given on Friday.

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Adverb NearPod

Click Here to do a NearPod about Adverbs:

https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/tl2h3AKZMu

Tall Tales

This week we will read The Bunyans on pages 726 - 743 in our Storytown book.  This is about Paul Bunyan and his family.  We get to learn what happens to Paul "later in life" and what his other family members are like.   

This story helps us to discuss the elements of a Tall Tale, which is a fictional story that exaggerates the truth.  Tall tales began as campfire stories told by American pioneers.  We read a brief book about Paul Bunyan.  Here's a 15 minute Walt Disney video about Paul Bunyan.  

Spelling Test Unit 28 on Friday.   
Spelling Unit 28 Homophones

Tall Tale NearPod:
https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/uRLjWJbVLu

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Monday, April 16, 2018

NearPod Contraction Review

Click here to take our Quiz:

https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/Al5OjDuzNu

Grand Canyon: A Trail Through Time

This week's homework assignment is to re-read Grand Canyon, Journey Through Time for tomorrow's story and comprehension test.   We are in Theme 5, Lesson 2:



Here are a few Grand Canyon videos:

Grand Canyon for Kids Rafting Adventure Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFX49YQvpfs

Quick Grand Canyon Cartoon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMd6_Xx8wQA

The Grand Canyon (4 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZEJMtLOKU

( 4 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSN3vDf2vI

Grand Canyon Flight From Above : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2X4U1mQzoE

Animated Clip : http://pbskids.org/video/?guid=705ba316-a771-4269-92e8-90cbdd641eb9

Formation:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktf73HNZZGY

Animals of Grand Canyon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEeM54HRWrU



We are preparing for our Unit 27 Spelling test.  These words have Latin roots. 

Monday, April 9, 2018

Monday, March 5, 2018

My Diary From Here to There

This week we will read My Diary from Here to There, and students should reread this story for Tuesday's homework.  It it the story of a young girl moving to a new home in America. We completed our vocabulary pages in our Practice workbook.

We are talking about the parts of a story; characters, setting, plot.  This video clip explains the parts of a story's plot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPfL0LToik0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yzY6buMflo - Plot Using Disney Elements

My Diary Jeopardy Game

Spelling City Unit 22

Spelling City Unit 22

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Dogs, Dogs, Dogs! Cats, Cats, Cats!

Dog Animal Planet Links

Dog Facts

Dog Facts for Kids

Cat Facts for Kids

Winn- Dixie

We are on Unit 21-our test is Friday.  We worked on our Spelling assignment/workbook pages today to practice.

Because of Winn-Dixie  is tonight's homework assignment.  Students read about how Miss Frannie and India Opal become friends.  Miss Frannie tells the story of a time that a bear came in to her library!

Friday, February 16, 2018

Unit 21 Links

Near Pod Helping Verb

Unit 21 Spelling City

Figurative Language Activities

We have been learning about figurative language.  Figurative language includes similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and idioms.  See the link below for examples of each. 

Figurative Language - definitions and examples

Figurative Language Games


https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/Klp6y2qOMu - Smilie & Metaphor NearPod

https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/oEWfJBYiMu - Onomonopia NearPod

https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/MLHtVS4DMu - Personification NearPod

https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/EpVpoRqsMu - Alliteration NearPod

https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/EpVpoRqsMu - Hyperbole NearPod

Here are a couple of short definitions of these kinds of language that we practiced in class.

            The definition of hyperbole is a description that is exaggerated for emphasis.
  1. An example of hyperbole is saying you are so hungry you could eat a horse.
  2. Personification is giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas.
  3. An author describing the sun smiling on a field of flowers is an example of personification.
  4. The definition of a metaphor is a word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts or feelings to provide a clearer description.
  5. An example of a metaphor is calling the dependable father a rock
  6. The definition of a simile is a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared using the word "like" or "as" followed by a figurative example.
  7. An example of a simile is "He is as hungry as a horse."  
  8. An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meaning of its words.
  9. "It's raining cats and dogs" is an idiom.

Folk Tale Bingo Links

Tall Tale
Paul Bunyan Cartoon
Pecos Bill Video
Johnny Appleseed Video

Pourquoi  (Why?) Tales
Anansi Pourquoi Stories:
IAnansi Introduction by Storyteller - 4 min.
All Stories Belong to Anansi - 9 min.
Anansi Tries to Steal All Stories - 3 min.
Anansi - Why Anansi Has 8 Legs
Anansi Goes to Lunch
Anansi Tricks Mosquito
Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom

More Pourquoi Tales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itszep0duwI - Why Koala Has Stumpy Tail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA5QbOZzDFM - Why Elephant's Trunk is Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Hq-5zBHoQ - How the Parrot Got its Colors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcpPvSBNFuc - Why Zebras Have Stripes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCc3-LLdvQ - Why Leopard Has Spots

Monday, February 5, 2018

Spelling City Unit 19

Spelling City Unit 19

Folk Tales

This week we are reading the story of Juan Verdadez: The Man Who Could Not Tell a Lie.  We are learning about different types of Folk Tales.  

Here are some vocabulary and comprehension activities to help review at home:
Vocabulary Quizlet
Juan Verdadez Quizlet 
Quizlet Story Questions

Pourquoi  (Why?) Tales
Anansi Pourquoi Stories:
IAnansi Introduction by Storyteller - 4 min.
All Stories Belong to Anansi - 9 min.
Anansi Tries to Steal All Stories - 3 min.
Anansi - Why Anansi Has 8 Legs
Anansi Goes to Lunch
Anansi Tricks Mosquito
Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom

More Pourquoi Tales:

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Hewitt Anderson

Tuesday's homework is to reread our Hewitt Anderson story found on pages 466-489 in our Storytown book.  We also completed our vocabulary practice workbook page 102.  Wednesday's story test will be over the vocabulary and the comprehension of this story.  Hewitt Anderson is a folk tale that also contains some tall tale elements.


Hewitt Anderson NearPod

You can click here to practice your words and comprehension at home:

Vocabulary Flash Cards

Hewitt Anderson Vocabulary and Story Practice

This week, students are learning about different kinds of folk tales and trying our hand at writing story webs/idea maps for each kind of folk tale, such as fables, tall tales, and fairy tales.  As the written portion of this unit, students will select one of their story maps and "publish" their favorite for the class.