Monday, January 31, 2011

5th Grade Math at Sumdog

Use your login card to log into a great new math site, Sumdog. Compete with your classmates online or challenge the computer.
 


3_5.CC.1 Communication and Collaboration

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

4th Grade Math at Sumdog

Use your login card to log into a great new math site, Sumdog. Compete with your classmates online or challenge the computer.
 


3_5.CC.1 Communication and Collaboration

Monday, January 24, 2011

3rd Grade Keyboarding 2.0

Spend a few minutes at each of the keyboarding sites below:

  

    

3_5.TC.4 Technology Operations and Concepts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

1st Grade Fishing

Roll up your sleeves and grab your tackle box, we're going fishing! First up its Fishing with Phonics.


Next up, try to count the correct number of fish in Fishin' Mission.


Let's play bigger or smaller at Fish Tales. Eat the fish smaller than yourself. Don't get eaten by bigger fish!




PK_2.TC.6 Technology Operations and Concepts
PK_2.TC.7 Technology Operations and Concepts

2nd Grade Famous People Research

Use the following sites to research your famous person:
PK_2.RI.2 Research and Information Fluency

Kindergarten ABCya!

We are going to practice navigating in a virtual environment with ABCya!.com. We will be practicing opening up new windows and closing windows in Internet Explorer.


PK_2.TC.5 Technology Operations and Concepts
PK_2.TC.7 Technology Operations and Concepts

4th Grade Grammar, Ninjas, and Baseball

We are going to visit the free demo portion of Help Me 2 Learn: Grammar. Let's learn the difference between nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives.


Grammar Ninja is next. Can you find the correct parts of speech?


Bonus baseball games for the hard workers:
 

3rd Grade Storybird

We are going to work in small groups to create our own stories in Storybird.
Username: helab
Password: he1234


3_5.CC.1 Communication and Collaboration

2nd Grade Counting Money

1. Visit Math Nook for this Counting Money game.  Click on the correct change to score points.


2. Practice counting money at these three sites:
         

3. Next, try your coin smarts at Exact Change, also from Math Nook.
PK_2.TC.6 Technology Operations and Concepts

5th Grade Story Starters

-Teachers & Parents: (Handout) (Lesson)
Create your own wacky stories with Scholastic Story Starters. Choose from the following formats to publish your story (notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard). No more, "Mr. Horne, I don't know what to write about." This site is awesome!


3_5.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation

Thursday, January 13, 2011

2nd Grade Characteristics of Materials

-Teachers & Parents: (Handout)
1. Discover the characteristics of materials. How strong is glass? How flexible is metal?
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2. Test your smarts in this online quiz.

PK_2.RI.1 Research and Information Fluency

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Kindergarten Fishing

Roll up your sleeves and grab your tackle box, we're going fishing! First up its Fishing with Phonics.


Next up, try to count the correct number of fish in Fishin' Mission.


Let's play bigger or smaller at Fish Tales. Eat the fish smaller than yourself. Don't get eaten by bigger fish!




PK_2.TC.6 Technology Operations and Concepts
PK_2.TC.7 Technology Operations and Concepts

Monday, January 10, 2011

1st Grade Math at Sumdog

Use your login card to log into a great new math site, Sumdog. Finish Lesson 1, then compete with your classmates online.
 

PK_2.CC.1 Communication and Collaboration
PK_2.TC.7 Technology Operations and Concepts

4th Grade Scholastic Story Starters

-Teachers & Parents: (Handout) (Lesson)
Create your own wacky newspaper article with Scholastic Story Starters. We will be showing off your articles to your classmates when you are finished.


3_5.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation

3rd Grade Wild Self Stories

1. Build Your Wild Self and print it out in color.


2. Read all about the special characteristics of your wild self on your printed page. Go to Microsoft Word and write an exciting story about your wild self.

3_5.CI.2 Creativity and Innovation

5th Grade Forces and Motion

Rival park owner, Bertie Block, is plotting to break one of ParkWorld's rides. Investigate the science of forces to save ParkWorld from ruin in Parkworld Plot


Next, use your forces and motion knowledge to create your very own roller coasters in Roller Coaster Creator.


3_5.CT.2 Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

2nd Grade Create and Convey

Sometimes we use technology to create ideas on our screen, and sometimes we use technology to create ideas to be printed out.

1. HighlightKids Design Your Own Gingerbread House and Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby House. What similarities and differences did you notice with both sites?

           

2. Build Your Wild Self let's you create your own "Wild Self" character. Create your Wild Self, print it out, then type a few sentences about your character's special abilities.


PK_2.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

1st Grade Rhyming Words

1. Go to BBC's The Little Animals Activity Center and click on Digby Mole's Word Games. We are going to play End Sounds first and Rhymes second.


2. Meet the Gang at Orson's Farm, part of Professor Garfield's Transport to Reading.



3. Help Reggie find the Rhyme at Rhyming with Reggie the Rhino.


4. Choose a word from this Rhyming Word List and type in on Microsoft Word. Then walk around the lab and type in rhyming words on as many computers as you can. Type your name after your rhyming word so we know you thought of the rhyme.

5. Choose your own rhyming game from SesameStreet.org.
           







PK_2.TC.6 Technology Operations and Concepts
PK_2.TC.7 Technology Operations and Concepts

4th Grade Super Bowl Halftime Show Practice




Monday, January 3, 2011

Kindergarten Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Let's read Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, by Mo Willems, a Caldecott Honor Book. Then, we will use a painting program to draw our very own Caldecott worthy pigeons.


Check out How to Draw the Pigeon by Mo Willems.

Another version, this time read by a two year old. Enjoy!


PK_2.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation

3rd Grade Spelling Bee

1. Visit Interactives Spelling Bee and select 3rd Grade. If you get stumped, you can click to hear a word again, as many times as you need to.


2. Ready for an Online Spelling Bee? Choose your character, sound it out, and spell your best. From BigIQkids.com.


3. Choose 5 words from this 3rd Grade Spelling List. Write them down on a piece of paper. Now, see if your table partner can spell your 5 words words correctly using KidPix on their computer.

3_5.CT.2 Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

4th Grade Hands On Banking

Hands On Banking will teach us all about money. Included will be budgeting, savings and checking, ATM's, & credit cards.


3_5.CT.2 Critical Thinking, Problem solving, and Decision Making

5th Grade United States History Map

1. Learn about the history of the United States with Interactives incredible United States History Map. Become a geography whiz as you learn how the United States was settled. Discover how the continent was irrevocably changed by European colonization, the events that caused the wholesale displacement and decimation of the land's original inhabitants, and how the 50 states came to be formed.


2. Sheppard Software has great tutorials & games on US capitals, states, and landscapes.



3. Ready for a timed challenge? Pibmug.com is waiting to see if you can name 48 states before time runs out.








3_5.RI.2 Research and Information Fluency

Saturday, January 1, 2011

5th Grade Scholastic Story Starters

Create your own wacky story with Scholastic Story Starters. Choose from the following formats to publish your story (notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard).


3_5.CI.1 Creativity and Innovation