portaportal

Welcome to Mrs. Michelle Gates' Portaportal

General Information & Enrichment Sites

South Elementary School
Prince George County Public Schools
Khan Academy
Learn Just About Anything You Want To!
Mrs. Gates' Quizlet Site
2019-20 Quizlet Site
Mrs. Gates' YouTube Channel
Various videos used for instructing (especially during the 2020 Coronacation!)
Edmodo
Accelerated Reader/ Star
Take AR & Star Tests (only works at school)
QR Code Reader
Read QR Codes
Scholastic Skills Enrichment
KidRex
Safe Search Engine for Kids!
Quizizz Join a Game Link
Enter the quiz code your teacher gives you!
IXL
Math and Language Arts Assignments & Practice-Use your password
Mr. Anker's Enrichment Activities
Activities for all subjects
Our Class Website
Check out our class pictures, events, links, etc
Ducksters.com
History, Science, Georgraphy, Biography, Educational Games (including math & typing!)
SOL Pass
Username: South ES (Prince George) Password: stars
Scholastic Skills
Mr. Anker's Enrichment Activities
Funology
Arts and Crafts, Cooking, Magic, Science Experiments, Jokes, & More!
Wordle
Fun with your words
BrainPop
Username: pgsouth Username: brainpop **For all subjects! Videos, games, etc.
PBS Kids
Shows, Videos, & Activities
Virginia Trekkers
Videos of historical places around VA

Current Events, Society, & Culture

Covid-19/Corona Virus Primary Documents

Yoga for Kids

5 Best Yoga Videos on YouTube for Kids
Relax and stretch with yoga!
Free Kids' Yoga Videos -LoveToKnow
Relax and stretch with yoga!
Kids Yoga Stories
Scroll down to see poses you can do!

SOL Practice

SOL Pass
Username: South ES (Prince George) Password: stars
Jefferson Labs
Create Practice SOLs
Interactive Assessment
TEI Practice

Puzzles & Games

Understanding Politics for Kids

U.S. Congress for Kids
Understand how congress works
Kids Voting.Org
Keep up with the presidential election!
iCivics
The Political Parties
What do they stand for?
Time for Kids
Current News
PBS Kids

Just for Parents

Healthy Kids
Great Schools
Guide your child to a great future!
Virginia 529 College Savings Plan
Great Savings Tool!!!
FAFSA.ed.gov
The REAL Federal student aid website

Gifted and Talented Information and Links

Prince George County Gifted & Talented Services
Explanations of Prince George gifted and talented identification
National Association of Gifted-Parent Resources
Tips for parents of gifted and talented children
nagc.org Parent Tip Sheets
Tips for parents of gifted and talented children
VA Dept. of Education-Increasing Diversity in Gifted Education
Ways to promote equity across all demographic groups
VA Dept. of Education- Gifted Education
Information related to gifted services in Virginia

Governor's Schools & Specialty Schools in our Area

Appomattox Regional Governor's School
A link to their site for information
CodeRVA Regional High School
A link to their site for information
Maggie L. Walker Governor's School
A link to their site for information

Gifted Strategies Taught in Prince George

Kids are Special-Six Hat Thinking Strategy
A great overview of the Six Hat Thinking strategy
Depth and Complexity Stragegy
Icons and descriptions of the Depth and Complexity strategy
Habits of Mind Strategy
Icons and descriptions of the Habits of Mind strategy

Hour of Code 2017
Select "Activities" and then choose an activity to code!

Enrichment Activities

Problem Based Learning Activities

PBL Project
Login: warmups Password: student
Thanksgiving & Black Friday
Login: warmups Password: student

All About Honeybees!

Art Projects for Art Class

Art Class-Undefeated 44 Website
Website to use with writing for Art Activity

Geography Quests

Yosemite National Park

To the North Pole!

National Geographic & World Exploration

Ladder to American Independence Timeline & Webquest

Sound Webquest

Light WebQuest

Earth WebQuest

What Can Humans Learn from Plants and Animals?

Typing Test
Time Yourself!
Wordle
Create Word Designs
SpellingCity
Practice Spelling & Vocabulary
ReadWorks.org
Online Reading Assignments

Interjections

Grammarville-Commas
Comma Quiz
How will you do?
BrainPop Punctuation
Username: pgsouth Username: brainpop
Wartgames with Commas
a lot of games!

Quotation Marks

Punctuation Practice

Puncuation Tree
Information & Practice
Wartgames

Conjunctions

Subject-Verb Agreement

Comparative Adjectives

Double Negatives

Complete Sentences, Run-ons, Fragments

Subjects & Predicates

Research Skills/Reference Materials

Author's Purpose

Cause and Effect

Context Clues

Drawing Conclusions & Making Inferences

Fact and Opinion

Variety of Reading Skills Practice

Point of View

Text Structure

Non-Fiction Text Features

Non-Fiction Text Features Video
Match Memory
Factile Jeorpardy
Quizziz Game
You can invite friends to play! Share the code once you start a game.
Quizziz Game 2
You can invite friends to play! Share the code once you start a game.
Time for Kids
Read articles and use the text features

Making Generalizations

Quia Game
Making Valid Generalizations
Click on "Making Valid Generalizations"

Story Elements (Character, Plot, Setting, etc.)

Battle of the Books Club

Compare & Contrast

Chasing Vermeer Activities

Short Stories

Lemony Snicket Books

Addie Across the Prairie

Kidblog.org
Write your own blog

Letter Writing

Phyllis Wheatley

Synonyms, Antonyms,

Root Words, Prefixes,

Homophones, Homographs, & Homonyms

5th Grade Math

Estimation & Regrouping

Decimals-Rounding, Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, Dividing, C

Graphs and Plots

Multiplication & Division Review

Metric System and US Customary System

Measures of Center (Mean, Median, Mode)

Algebra/Equations

Measurement: Perimeter, Area, Volume,

Odd, Even, Prime, and Composite Numbers

Probablility

Multiplying Fractions

Adding & Subtracting Fractions

Math Play Board Game
Quia Fractions
Internet4Classrooms
Scroll down and search for adding & subtracting fractions games

Parts of a Circle

Angles and Triangles

Plane Figures

Elapsed Time

Combining and Subdividing Polygons

Budget Project

Quicken Budget Reality Check
Read this!
Realtor.com
Use zip code 23842
Salary.com
Under "What are you worth?" use zip 23842
Payscale.com
Zillow.com

Transformations

4th Grade Science

Hubble Telescope Site
Edheads- Cool Activities!
Click on Choose an Activity
Jefferson Labs Activities, Games, & Movies
Click on Student Zone, Games, or Science Cinema
NASA Space Place
Fun!
US Geological Survey
Explore the geology of the U.S. & recent earthquakes!
DragonflyTV
Interesting videos on current scientific exploration! Very interesting!
National Geographic Store

Scientific Investigation

Funology
Fun Experiment Ideas
Scientific Method Study Jams
Ducksters
Learn about the Scientific Method

Living Systems

Natural Resources

Force, Motion, and Energy

Magnets & Electricity

The Solar System

5th Grade Science

Quia for all Science SOLs
Awesome practice!
Bite Size BBC
SOL Pass
Username: South ES (Prince George) Password: stars
High Tech Teaching Games for Science SOLs
Funology
Science Experiments & More!
AAusten-Portaportal
Scroll down to what you are studying

5.1 Scientific Investigation

5.5 b-c Kingdoms & Traits of Organisms

Instrument Project Links

5.7 Earth Patterns, Cycles, and Change

History Textbook with Audio
Choose your chapter, listen and read along!
Ducksters-The History of Virginia
An overview of Virginia history to watch FIRST! Before learning the SOLS!
Virginia Trekkers on Vimeo
Watch videos of geography and historical places around Virginia
Virginia Trekkers
Watch videos of geography and historical places around Virginia
Virginia Studies SOL Pass
Username: South ES (Prince George) Password: stars
Knowledge of the Government
How much do you know?
Refrigerator Study Cards for all VA SOLs
High Tech Teaching Games for all Virginia Studies SOLs
Mr. Pierce's VA Study Page
Tons of resources!

Geography/Maps

Primary Sources

Virginia Studies

The Mayflower Compact: Woud You Sign It?

VS.2 Virginia Geography

VS.1 Map Skills

VS2 Native Americans

VS3 Jamestown

VS 4 Colonial Life

VS. 5 American Revolution

VS.6 A New Nation

VS7 Civil War

Civil War Timelines

VS.8 Rebuilding Virginia-Reconstruction

VS.9 Changing Times/Virginia in the 1900's/Famous Virginians

VS10 Virginia 's Economy & Government

POWERPOINTS BY SOL