Monday, December 31, 2012

Create Virtual Snowflakes

Here's a bonus winter break activity for all Hutchings students. Have you ever folded up paper and used scissors to make "paper snowflakes"? Try out these "virtual snowflake" sites.
    
  

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Sumdog's New Look & Winter Break Contest

Sumdog.com has updated the look of their award winning math site! To celebrate, Mr. Horne has invited all Hutchings 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade to the "Hutchings Winter Break Contest". The Winter Break Contest runs from December 20th - January 3rd. Please view the screencast below to see how to navigate the"'new look" Sumdog site!

How to use Sumdog's "new look" site:

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Beat the Teacher FINAL RESULTS

What a fun night of math! Congratulations to Mrs. Palo, winner of the 4th grade "Beat the Teacher" sumdog.com math night. Mrs. Palo correctly answered an incredible 856 math problems, without getting one wrong! The leaderboard is below. Thanks to all for participating!
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Monday, December 17, 2012

2nd Grade Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology

Let's compare online coloring to coloring by hand First, color one of our blank coloring page printouts with crayons at your desk. Next, select the same coloring page online and use your online coloring tools to fill it in. What are some advantages to coloring online? What are some disadvantages to coloring online? Use the T-chart for notes.

 

T Chart
 


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4th Grade Sumdog Night

4th graders, do you have what it takes to beat your teacher in a freindly Sumdog.com math contest? Log into your sumdog account and join your teachers from 7:30pm-8:00pm, on Tuesday, December 18th. Good luck!

1st Grade Online Painting

We can use technology to create! Let's explore some of the best online painting sites for kids. We will spend a few minutes at each site and then discuss similarities and differences of each site.
  • I can open each site
  • I can ask others for help
  • I can use the drawing tools, the paint fill tools, erase/undo tools, and start a new picture
  • I can describe similarities and differences when comparing the painting sites
    

Kindergarten Online Painting Sites

We can use technology to create! Let's explore some of the best online painting sites for kids. We will spend a few minutes at each site and then discuss similarities and differences of each site.
  • I can open each site
  • I can ask others for help
  • I can use the drawing tools, the paint fill tools, erase/undo tools, and start a new picture
  • I can describe similarities and differences when comparing the painting sites
    

3rd Grade Holiday Activities

1. Check out HighlightKids' Design Your Own Gingerbread House and Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby House. What similarities and differences did you notice with both sites? Which site do you like better? Why?

          
 

2. Next, we will be using some activities from abcya.com.

Christmas Lights     100 Snowballs!

Make a Snowman     Make a Christmas Tree

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5th Grade Econ 101 - PNC Christmas Price Index

My grandma used to tell me when she was a kid, she could buy a loaf of bread for only 10 cents. Does that sound right to you? Today, we will explore some basic economic principals:
  • What are goods and services?
  • Do the price of goods and services stay the same over time?
  • What is inflation?
Step 1: Ever hear the song The Twelve Days of Christmas? Well, PNC Bank creates a Christmas Price Index each year where they shop for each gift in the song 12 Days of Christmas, and adds up the cost of these items and compares that cost to years past. Can you find the cost for all 12 items on your list?
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Step 2: Compare the price of gifts from 2012 to 2011. Each gift is exactly the same as last year, how do you explain any differences in prices? Then watch the video on inflation.


Step 3: Take a look at the graph that shows the average income in the United States from 1914-2004. Compare that graph with the chart containing prices of the Christmas gifts from 1984-2010. Use the graph and the chart to answer the questions on the back of your handout.
http://rawnumber.com/blog/i/news/2008-us-income.jpg      http://www.everydayminimalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Christmas-Price-Index-Years.png

Step 4: Use the inflation calculator below to quiz your table partner. Don't forget to write down the information on your handout.


Another video that helps explain inflation:


Thursday, December 13, 2012

4th Grade "Beat the Teacher"


Monday, December 10, 2012

2nd Grade Homophones

Watch one of Mr. Horne's favorite YouTube videos below:


Sample lesson - Grade 2: vocabulary.  Play a matching game with Nova and Simon and learn about homophones.



Less than 80% on the Quiz, then watch Homophones Video:




80% or higher on the Quiz, then watch Synonym/Antonym Video:



http://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/staff/boldtkatherine/images/WordFrog.jpg     http://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/staff/boldtkatherine/images/FuriousFrogs.jpg

Additional Worksheets:
homophone worksheet Homophones Worksheets     homophones worksheet Homophones Worksheets

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1st Grade Little Mouse Gets Ready

First you will learn about "order" words (first, then, next, last) by reading Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith. Then you will create your very own four-panel comic that shows the four steps on how you get ready to do something.

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Kindergarten PBS Kids Counting Games

Visit some of the great counting games offered at PBS Kids.

3rd Grade What Makes an Insect?

Do you know an insect when you see one? First visit the insect page from the San Diego Zoo to read what all insects have in common (you can also student the ant diagram below). Then open up Kerpoof's Draw a Picture and draw your very own insect. Do your best, your insect will be shared in our online slideshow when you are done.
http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/wp-content/themes/sandiegozoo/images/heroimgs/Insects.png  



Mrs. Buckingham's Insects:


Mrs. Nelson's Insects:


Mrs. Highum's Insects:

4th Grade Habitat oh Habitat

-Teachers & Parents: (Handout)
Step 1: See if you can get 100% compatibility for all six animals in this Build an Online Habitat Game from Switcheroo Zoo..


Step 2:
Different living things like to live in places that suits their needs. Do you know where each animal should live and why? Visit Human and Animal Habitats.


Step 3:
Back to Switcheroo Zoo. Time to Make New Animals. Anyone can describe why an animal would be a good fit for a certain habitat. Now, you need to create an animal that could never survive in the habitat that is chosen. Explain to your table partner.














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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Kindergarten Dress Up Activities

Check out some of the great Dress Up activities from PBS Kids.

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 your own rhyming game from SesameStreet.org.
           







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Math - Mangahigh.com

Let's practice our math skills today. We will be logging into one of our new favorite math sites: Mangahigh.com.

         

5th Grade Scholastic Story Starters

-Teachers & Parents: (Handout) (Lesson)
You will be working with a partner today to create a story from Scholastic Story Starters. We will be printing out these stories when finished. Here are your learning goals :
  • I can work well with others
  • I can plan a beginning, middle, and end to our story
  • I can describe how our main character looks and acts


http://www.scholastic.com/teacher/images/articles/l/lessonplans_graphicorg_images_storytrain.jpg     http://www.scholastic.com/teacher/images/articles/l/lessonplans_graphicorg_images_settingcomparison.jpg

From BBC Bitesize: Story Planning

 

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