New Features!

We are working on updating our blog to make our favorite websites more accessible. Check out the pages above. It is definitely a work in progress and we will add to them as we have time! If you've found some great sites, please let us know!

Try It: Interpreting Data

Click HERE to give it a try!

5th Grade Internet Games

Click HERE to find some fun, educational games!

Let's Say Thanks!

If you go to the web site, Let's Say Thanks, you can pick out a thank you card, and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier who is currently stationed overseas. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services. How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!!

It is FREE and it only takes a few seconds.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these?

This takes just 10 seconds, and it's a wonderful way to say thank you. Please take the time, and please take the time to pass it on for others to do. We can never say enough thank yous.

Thanks for taking the time to support our military! Don’t forget, freedom is never FREE.

Computer Lab 12/8

It is time to take the STAR Reading and STAR Math tests! Do your very best! On your math test, please work out your problems. Don't guess if you don't have to. Be certain you have the correct answer.

Then, you may finish up any work (Brainpop, Math Facts in a Flash, projects, etc.) that you need to do. Please choose wisely!

Computer Lab 12/1

Please finish any of the following that you haven't already completed:
Math- Numbers and Operations- Prime Numbers
"- " - Factoring
"- " - Exponents
"- "- Order of Operations

English- Grammar- Verbs and their Objects
"- "- They're, Their, and There

More Brainpop in Computer Lab

Math- Numbers and Operations- Prime Numbers
"- " - Factoring
"- " - Exponents
"- "- Order of Operations

Who Am I? Social Studies Civil War Interactive

Check out this cool Civil War interactive game from the Smithsonian! Click HERE.

More Brainpop in Computer Lab

Go to Brainpop.com. Take and print the quizzes (after watching the movies!) for:
*English- grammar- types of sentences
*English- grammar- nouns
*English- grammar- idioms and cliches
*English- writing- main idea (This one is difficult so you might want to watch the movie twice and/or take a practice quiz!)

Multiplying Decimals Vide

Some of us are still having difficulty multiplying decimals. Check out a video by CLICKING HERE!

Computer Lab: Civil War & Science

Go to Brainpop, log in (unionco/panthers) and go to Social Studies. Click on U.S. History, and then watch the following movies. Take the quizzes and print your scores. (Some of you quizzed last week on one of these.)
*Slavery
*Frederick Douglass
*Underground Railroad

Also watch and quiz on these science videos:
*Microscopes
*Scientific Method

Computer Lab: The Underground Railroad

Click HERE and then click on number 1 on the path to learn more about the Underground Railroad and slavery in the United States. Complete your 3-2-1 response:
3 things you found out
2 interesting facts
1 question you still have

Next, go to Brainpop, log in (unionco/panthers) and go to Social Studies. Click on U.S. History, and then watch the following movies. Take the quizzes and print your scores.
*Civil War Causes
*Slavery
*Frederick Douglass
*Underground Railroad

Underground Railroad Interactive Websites

As you view these websites in computer lab (or at home), think of the following questions and your responses.

*After viewing these sites, how do you feel about slavery?
*How do you think the issue of slavery changed our society?
*What about the websites stick in your mind?
*Why is it important for us to remember the hardships faced by slaves?

You will turn in your written response no later than THURS. 9/23.

Check out these three sites by clicking on their names:
*Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad
*The National Geographic Underground Railroad Site
*Melrose Plantation (This site was unavailable but will hopefully be online again soon.)

Math Practice Website

Go check out thatquiz.org to take practice tests to work on your speed with basic facts. (This website offers other quizzes, but we haven't had time to check them out yet.) Let us know what you think!

Multiplication Rock: I Got Six

Maybe this Schoolhouse Rock Multiplication Rock video will help you study for Friday's speed test! Click HERE.

Geometry Websites

(This is a re-post with two more websites added. You have to be QUICK for the last one!)

Here are some helpful geometry websites:

http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/basic-geometry.html

Measuring Angles using a Protractor

Types of Angles

Types of Triangles

Quadrilaterals

Polygons

Circles

Geometric Properties

The BBC Shapes

BBC Shapes Interactive Game

Fun Spelling Game

Go check out "Miss Spell's" game at dictionary.com! Click on http://dictionary.reference.com/fun/missspell. You have to be quick!

The Ruler Game

Click to go try The Ruler Game!

We recommend that you start out with the whole (inches) level, then move up to halves, then up to quarters, etc. If you don't already know how to read a ruler to the sixteenths, don't start at that level! You have to be quick!

Become a Summer Reading Warrior!

If you're a fan of the Warrior series or if you love to read, then you might want to check out the Summer Reading Warrior program. Click HERE!

Our public library's summer reading program will begin 6/1/10 also.

WEBSITES

We have quite a few cool websites linked here on our blog. You can find them easily by scrolling down to where you see "Labels" on the right. The very last link is for our posts that have websites linked to them. Click on "websites" to find all our posts about different websites. Choose one and enjoy!