Carpenter’s Computer Cats

All Grades

Funbrain Math
Rainforest Math
Color Trap (challenging but fun!)
Factmonster Math Games
Kids Numbers

Kinder & 1st Grade

Buggy Math (addition practice)

 
3rd Grade

Sailon 

4th Grade
4.1 Number, operation, and quantitative reasoning:

Counting Change
Sailon
Math Fries
Place Value Pirates
Tony’s Fraction Pizza
Speed Math

5th Grade

Death to Decimals
Sailon

Volcanoes are some of the most interesting and exciting landforms on Earth and other planets! What are some facts you can find out about volcanoes? Use www.google.com to find reliable websites that will help you learn about volcanoes. When you’ve found 2 facts, click on Comments and post them to this website.

 Have fun learning about volcanoes!

Light up the Christmas Tree

Northpole.com

3rd Graders:

Use this information about rocks to complete your Fact Flipper. Copy and paste the text onto the correct slides. Good Luck!!! 

Igneous Rock - rock that was once melted but has cooled and hardened.

Sedimentary Rock - Forms from material that has settled into layers. The layers are squeezed together until they harden into rock.

Metamorphic Rock - Igneous or sedimentary rock that has been changed by heat and pressure.

Erosion - When rocks and soil breakdown

Freerice.com
Funschool.Kaboose
Super Hyper Spider Typer
Brain Pop (only free ones)
NetSmartz for Kids
Nick
Disney
Build a Bear
Edheads
Funbrain
Math Fries
Starfall
Online Coloring Pages
Papajan.com
Dabbs Elementary Fun & Games Links
Deepwater Elementary Links
Sailon
Webkinz
Chicktionary
PBS Kids
TVO Kids!

Here are some really fun websites to learn and play with Dr. Seuss and all his wonderful characters. Have fun!

Seussville
K-2 games, activities, upcoming events, buying Dr. Seuss books and other stuff.

Seussville University
K-5 games that are “lots of good fun that is funny!”

Seussville Coloring Grinch
Online coloring games

Dr. Seuss Book Quiz
How many of Dr. Seuss’s books do you really know? Test your knowledge out on this fun quiz!

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
Help the teachers find their classroom doors so they can teach!

Dr. Seuss Games
More Dr. Seuss games to play!

Oct 8 - 12 is Fire Prevention Week. Remember these four basic facts about fires.

Fire is FAST!
There is little time!

In less than 30 seconds a small flame can get completely out of control and turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house. In minutes, a house can be engulfed in flames. Most fires occur in the home when people are asleep. If you wake up to a fire, you won’t have time to grab valuables because fire spreads too quickly and the smoke is too thick. There is only time to escape.

Fire is HOT!
Heat is more threatening than flames.

A fire’s heat alone can kill. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super hot air will scorch your lungs. This heat can melt clothes to your skin. In five minutes a room can get so hot that everything in it ignites at once: this is called flashover.

Fire is DARK!
Fire isn’t bright, it’s pitch black.

Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness. If you wake up to a fire you may be blinded, disoriented and unable to find your way around the home you’ve lived in for years.

Fire is DEADLY!
Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do.

Fire uses up the oxygen you need and produces smoke and poisonous gases that kill. Breathing even small amounts of smoke and toxic gases can make you drowsy, disoriented and short of breath. The odorless, colorless fumes can lull you into a deep sleep before the flames reach your door. You may not wake up in time to escape.

Here are some websites to learn about Fire Safety:

http://www.smokeybear.com/kids/games.asp
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=271

All grade levels are busy learning the keys on the keyboard. K, 1, and 2 are learning where the keys are, how to make capital letters with the shift key, and how to spell their names quickly. The upper grades are memorizing the home row and surrounding keys. Here are the wpm goals for each grade level:

3rd grade - 8 wpm with 0-1 errors
4th grade - 12 wpm with 0-1 errors
5th grade - 20 wpm with 0-1 errors

If you would like to practice keyboarding at home, here are some great websites:

Krazy Keyboarding for Kids

Dance Mat Typing!

Word Meister

Bubbles Typing Game

Keyboard Challenge

Welcome to Carpenter’s Computer Lab Blog. This is the website where you will find links to acceptable websites for all grade levels and information for both students and parents about technology. You may visit this weblog at school and at home! First let me tell you about this weblog…

Anytime I have new information to share, I will put it on the Home Page (the page you first come to when you enter the website). The newest one will appear at the top with the older ones moving down the page. On the right are some links you will want to check out:

Pages
Under Pages, you will find information about me, Mrs. Armendariz and also pages for each grade level. On each page will be lessons we are working on and your acceptable website links.

Archives
Older entries will be archived by month. If you want to view any entries I’ve made and you don’t feel like scrolling through a lot of entries to look for it, click on the month the entry was made to make looking for it easier.

Categories
Categories are the types of messages I write on here. Categories will be things like Cool Websites, Internet Safety, Information for Parents, Lessons, etc.

Blogroll
The Blogroll will be where I put links to websites that we all use often. I will be adding more and more here as the year goes on.

Meta
Meta is more for me when I design this webpage. Students won’t be needing to go there for anything.

I hope you find this weblog very helpful and informative for both students and parents. If at anytime you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them. Just remember: Everyone who logs on to this weblog will be able to see your comments! Please keep your questions and comments appropriate.

Welcome again!
Mrs. Armendariz