Animoto

Visit Animoto.com to start your video.
Select about 50 pictures and upload them.

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Smart Solution Comic Strip

Make Belief Comix

Hello everyone, today we are going to continue our theme of Smart Solutions by creating our own comic that contains a smart solution.

Click here to visit the Make Beliefs Comix site. Once there explore the creator and begin working on your comic.

Good Luck. We look forward to seeing your smart solutions.

Once you make your first comic, try making one about the prompt below.

What Are the Powerful Words to Heal?
May 2nd, 2009
A young girl who has been speechless all her life awakens one morning to discover that she can speak. Because her words are new and pure, they have the ability to heal all the hurts and sadness of the world. What are some of the simple healing words she utters?
Try to be her for a moment and speak for her.
(http://www.billztreasurechest.com/blog/)

Homework for 4-27-09

Here are your spelling words for the week of 4-27. They each have a VCCV pattern.

Monday, sudden, until, forget, happen, follow, dollar, window, hello, market, pretty, order
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Solid Figure PowerPoint

Today you are going to make a quick PowerPoint going over the information from chapter 21 in your Math text.

Directions:
Slide 1: Title slide - include the title Solid Figures and your name.
Slide 2: Cube - include 3 pictures along with a table that includes the number of sides, faces and vertices. Think about the one that I showed you today.
Slide 3: Square Pyramid - same as Cube
Slide 4: Rectangular Prism - same as Cube
Slide 5: Cylinder - same as Cube
Slide 6: Cone - same as Cube
Slide 7: Sphere - same as Cube

Good luck.

Homework for 4-20-09

Just a quick note asking for 2-liter bottles for our rocket unit. The students are going to build water rockets in the next couple of weeks and everyone needs 2 2-liter bottles. I will post some more information about it here soon.

Spelling Words:
caught, laugh, fought, brought, thought, through, daughter, ought, bought, enough, taught, cough

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Homework for 4-13-09

Click below for the homework tracker.
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Spelling Words:
tooth, cook, boot, balloon, chew, shoe, flew, drew, grew, blue, shook, spoon

Email if you have any questions.

Homework for 4-6-09

This week we are going to be reviewing topics that we have learned this year. Each night they will have a review sheet for homework.

There will be no spelling this week.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Have a great week!

Biomes Presentation

For your Biomes PowerPoint you need to have the following information
Slide #1 - Title slide - include your name.
Slide #2 - Definition of your Biome (Boys are doing grasslands and girls are doing deserts) Include a picture of your biomes.
Slide #3 - Pictures of animals found in your biome.

Use your Science text book for help.
Deserts pg 38
Grasslands pg 46

Good Luck!

The International Space Station

As most of you NASA just dropped off a couple of new astronauts on the International Space Station. Watch the video below, then visit the NASA website listed below.

Now that you have watched how the Astronauts eat, go and explore the ISS. Click here to visit NASA’s Space Station Website. On the website take a moment and explore what life is like on the International Space Station. Make sure to check out the 360 degree tour by finding this picture on the Space Station website!! picture-1

Once your are worn out from your exploration visit NASA Kids Club!

Lost and Found Trailer

Earlier this year Jake, Vaden and Lauren worked hard to make a short trailer for one of our first books.  Watch the trailer below.  Make sure to leave a comment for them and let them know what you think.

 
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