Archive for the ‘Lessons’ Category

4th Grade - Facts on Volcanoes

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

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!

Christmas Fun!

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Light up the Christmas Tree

Northpole.com

Types of Rocks

Friday, November 16th, 2007

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

Seuss is on the Loose!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

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!

Keyboarding

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

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