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Thursday, July 02nd 2009
Language Arts
Resources
Online Dictionary
A great free online dictionary that you can use any time to find the meaning of a word that you don’t understand.
Writer's Notebook
Super site for all my awesome writers!
Spelling City
Enter your Words to Learn, and get games to help learn them!
Top Secret
Make the Plant Grow!
Click the Grow button and see if you can grow the plant to its full healthy height.
Why Leaves Change Colors
See a video and learn more about why leaves are green and why they change colors!
Plants and Light
Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click to see a video of seedlings growing toward the light.
Consumers
Learn more about how our economy works.
Mrs. Harper
Mrs. Harper's Language Arts Blog
Read and comment on our thoughts about the books we are reading.
Chocolate Fever
Robert Kimmel Smith's website
Scroll down the page to learn more about the author. You can also click on the Books link at the top left corner of the page to
Chocolate Car!
See a chocolate car made with 1800 pounds of Belgian chocolate! WOW!!
Chocolate word games
Click on Concentration!
The History of Chocolate
Henry Green is not the only person who loves chocolate. Millions of people around the world love the taste of chocolate. What
Chocolate Jigsaw Puzzle
Can you complete the puzzle?
Sarah Plain and Tall
Vocabulary game
Play this game to see how well you know the words from the book.
Vocabulary Concentration
More activities to build vocabulary!
Vocabulary Flash Cards
Another game to practice vocabulary for our book.
Interview with Patricia MacLachlan
Listen to the author tell about her new book and how she became an author.
Jake Drake
Author's Website
Read a biography about Andrew Clements and see other books by him.
Cool Magnets
See a video showing how cool magnets are!
Writers Workshop
Sandra Cisneros author website
See how this author gets her ideas for stories.
Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg's Homepage
Many different activities that go with his wonderful books!
Questions & Answers
Click to learn more about the author and how he gets his ideas!
Video Interviews with Chris Van Allsburg
Watch short videos about his life and many of his books.
Interview with Chris Van Allsburg
Read to find out the stories
Stone Fox
ThinkQuest Stone Fox
Links to questions for each chapter, plus Samoyeds and more!
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George Homepage
Learn all about the author at her own site!
Wolves eField trip
Learn all about these interesting animals!
Running with the Wolves
Learn about the wolf's body, habitat, diet and more!
Brian's Winter
Gary Paulsen
Password: moose. Learn about this exciting author here! His life is as adventurous as his books!
Student Project on Brian's Winter
Visit this great project by another student!
Mammals of Denali eField trip
Take a virtual trip to the arctic & learn about many wild animals of the arctic
Stuart Little
Chapter Quizzes and Activities
Take the quizzes after each chapter. Print them and put them in your folder. Then you can go back and click on Activities.
The Fairy Rebel
Video clips of the author
Go after you finish Chapter 2.
Official Lynne Reid Banks website
After you finish Chapter 3, click on Biography. Click on Interview to read an interview she had with herself.
Hear the author read
Go after you have read Chapter 5. You can follow along in your book!
The Trumpet of the Swan
Trumpeter Swans
Take the efield trip to learn about trumpeter swans.
Swan boats!
Click to learn all about these interesting boats.
The Penderwicks
Read-aloud selection of chapter 1
Enjoy this podcast of the family's car trip!
Military school
See what a military school would be like for Jeffrey. Do you think he'd like it?
Math
Telling Time
Hour and Half Hour
Stop the Clock #1
Practice to the half hour
Count Us In
Game to match digital & analogue times to hour.
Stop the Clock: Words!
Stop the Clock matching word names for time with clock faces
Read the Clock
Choose Random, Level 1 to start, then move up as you improve!
Tell Time to 5 minute Intervals
Stop the Clock #3
Stop the Clock to 5 minutes
Tell Time to the Minute
Stop the Clock #4
Stop the Clock to the Minute
AM/PM
AM/PM
Select am or pm button for 10 parts of day
Addition and Subtraction
Math Magic!
Click to test your skills with addition!
Place Value
Match the word name to the numeral!
Can you make the puzzle appear?
Identify number in place value to 100s place
Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click to tell the number in different place values.
Finding Place Values
Scroll to the bottom. Choose the correct number for each place value.
Place Value Puzzlers
Choose Easy Place Value for a fun way to practice!
Cookie Dough Spell the Number Day
Fun to practice word names and standard numerals.
Video Lesson & Games
Super lesson & games to practice your skills!
Genius Boxing
Super leveled game: test your skills with >,<,= as you box against the genius!
Counting and Ordering
Spooky Sequences up by 10s
Enter the digits to show the missing number.
Spooky Sequences back by 10s
Enter the digits to show the missing number.
Spooky Sequences: 3 digit
Enter the digits to show the missing number.
Spooky Sequences up by 2s
Enter the digits to show the missing number
Data and Graphs
Data Picking
Click on each student to collect data and create a Frequency Table
Number Sense
Even or Odd?
Scroll to the bottom to test your skills with even and odd numbers!
Doubles and Halves Bingo
Awesome way to practice your skills!
Doubles & Halves: Dartboard
You can play two levels of difficulty with this fun game.
Near Doubles Machine
Challenging! How many clicks will you take to reach the number?
Guess My Number
Do one step problems to test your skills!
Ghost Blasters (Odd)
Awesome game: blast the Odd ghosts!
Ghost Blasters (Even)
Blast the Even ghosts!
Fractions
Many Fraction Games
Super site! Scroll down to do these games: Fractions-Parts of a Whole, Fractions-Naming, Fractions-Visualizing, and Fraction Pie
Concentration
Fun!
Fractions as Parts of Shapes
Can you fill in the numerator and denominator to match the shaded parts of shapes?
Shade in the pieces
Shade in the correct number of pieces to equal a fraction.
Parts of groups
Work with fractions as parts of groups.
Test your skills with Fractions!
Play this cool game to build better fractions skills!
Measurement
Fish Tales
Play a game about measuring: Fish Tales. Be Patient! This might take a long time to open.
Measure the Bears
Practice measuring teddy bears. Scroll down to find the bear and click Continue. There is only one set of activities.
Easy Inches #1
Practice measuring to the half inch. When the site opens, click on Easy Inches. If a Pop-up window opens, just close it.
Easy Inches #2
Play another game of Easy Inches.
Size Estimation Game
Practice estimating the size of everyday objects with inches, feet and yards. Go to Math Games>gr. 3>Size Estimation.
Geometry
2D Shapes
Trapezoid
See how two sides of a trapezoid always remain parallel
Shapes game
A game for 2 players like Tic-Tac-Toe
Hexagon
See how opposite sides of a hexagon always remain parallel.
Rhombus
See how the sides of a rhombus always stay the same length.
Congruent and Similar Shapes
Animated Definition of Congruent Figures
What are congruent figures?
Definition of Similar Figures
What are similar figures?
Congruent Shapes Game
Find shapes that are congruent.
Congruent Rectangles Game
Great practice with congruent rectangles! Lots to do here with Rikki Rectangle.
Challenge: Make Congruent Triangles
Create congruent triangles with lines.
Congruent or Similar?
Can you tell which shapes are congruent or similar?
Slides, Flips and Turns
If the Key Fits
Click to test your skill as a Robot Guru. Scroll down to
Icy Slides, Flips and Turns
This is a fun way to review the ways shapes can move.
Science
Fish
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Learn about tropical fish. Click on the game: What do I like for lunch?
Brainpop
Watch a video and take a pop quiz.
Water Cycle
Water Cycle
Learn about the water cycle at this site
Brainpop Water Cycle
Log in with User name: vcsint, Password: secob. Watch a movie and more.
Interactive Water Cycle
Click the link on the page to open a new window & learn about the Water Cycle.
Thirstin's Water Cycle
Click to see different parts of the Water Cycle!
Animated Diagram of the Water Cycle
Click the links to see the Water Cycle in action!
Buoyancy
Buoyancy Basics
Facts and pictures about buoyancy
Sink or Float Brainpop Jr.
Remember User name (victorps) & password (newark) for this great site!
Amphibians
Brainpop
Watch a video, take a pop quiz and see an experiment. Remember our login
Metamorphosis
Watch a bullfrog change from tadpole to adult.
CGEE: Frog Science Corner
Learn all about frogs on this site
Belize Zoo: Red Eyed Tree Frog
Video, audio and facts about this interesting frog
Frogwatch USA
Learn how people are trying to protect frogs around the country
Frogs for Kids
Learn how students were the first to discover some deformed frogs.
Froggy Page
Have fun with frogs
Reptiles
Brainpop
Remember our log in code and go here to view a movie & do cool activities.
Tree Boa video
Search for Reptiles to see a clip of Austin Stevens high in the rainforest canopy with a tree boa.
eField trip: Everglades
Visit reptiles and amphibians in the Everglades
Lizards and the Komodo King
Explore by exhibit to learn about these interesting animals.
Nile Crocodiles
Learn all about these large reptiles
Animal Games
This is a fun way to learn about animals.
Shedd Aquarium
Explore by animal
Animal Planet
Animals: A to Zoo
Simple Machines
Find the Simple Machines
Can you find the simple machines all around us?
Flying Pigs
See animated examples of simple machines
Animated worksheets!
See examples of machines in motion
Sculptures in Motion
See the concepts of simple machines in motion!
Team Wikis
Team Wiki 2007-2008
Visit our cool wiki to see what we did last school year!
Team Wiki 2008-2009
Help us build our new wiki with this year's students.
Health
My Body
Roll the mouse over the body to learn more about the different systems.
My Pyramid
My Pyramid Blast Off game
Reach Planet Power by fueling your rocket with food & physical activity!
Are you a Nutrition Expert?
Click to play Tasty Tunes, Monster Nutrition or others.
Brainpop, Jr. Food Pyramidnew
Remember User name (victorps) & password (newark) for this great site!
Skeletal System
Brainpop, Jr: Bones
Remember User name (victorps) & password (newark) for this great site!
Skeleton Shakedown
Can you put the skeleton together? (Need Adobe Shockwave Full Installed.)
Build a Skeleton
Can you build the skeleton? Click start game to begin.
Bones with Brainpop, Jr.
Our favorite site has a great section on Bones. Take the quiz and print your score!
Skeleton with Brainpop
This is more challenging, but still a great place to learn. User name: vcsint Password: secob
Brainpop: Joints
Learn about the different types of joints. Take the quiz and print your score!
Muscular System
Your Muscles
Learn about your muscles, and click on the picture to see even more!
Movie: The Muscular System
Super Scientist! Watch to learn more advanced information about your muscles.
Germs
Henry The Hand
Listen to songs, watch videos and learn why it's so important to wash your hands!
Scrub Club
See episodes about how our heroes beat bacteria & germs!
Brainpop Jr: Washing Hands
Watch the video, then take the quiz and print it.
Drug Awareness
Brainpop, Jr: Medicine
Medicines are good drugs that help you stay healthy. Learn about the safe way to take medicine. Print the quiz.
Brainpop: Smoking
Learn what smoking does to your body and why you should never smoke.
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