Wilson School S-p-e-l-l-i-n-g Bee!...

Posted by MsYork in Classroom Updates on January 27, 2012 | No Comments

Congratulations to our classroom spelling champions Giovanni and Dallas as well as our alternate Travis! Good luck! Parents, if you’d like to attend this year’s bee, please meet us in the cafeteria on Wednesday, February 22nd at 9:00 AM!

If you’d like to see this year’s word list, please click here! Study time!

Two-Digit Multiplication & Long Division...

Posted by MsYork in Classroom Updates on January 24, 2012 | No Comments

Two-digit multiplication and long division are our most hard-hitting math topics in Trimester Two. We are required to know all of our multiplication and division facts, steps, and word problem clue words. In order to help facilitate practice at home, please use the following links. They provide notes to print out, activities to follow step-by-step, and clue words to help indicate whether a problem is division or multiplication. We have two weeks until our benchmark exams.

Multiplication:

Two-Digit Multiplication (notes)
Two Digit by One Digit Multiplication Steps, Two Digit by Two Digit Multiplication Steps (review practice)
Multiplication.com (multiplication fact games), The Ultimate Guide to Multiplication Tips and Tricks!
(fact practice)
Gateways2Learning.com (multiplication clue words)

Division:

Long Division Lesson (notes)
Snork’s Long Division, Dividing Two-Digit Numbers by One-Digit Numbers (review practice) [Divide (Dad), Multiply (Mom), Subtract (Sister), Bring Down (Brother), Remainder (Rover)]
Math Baseball, Sum Sense (division fact games)
Gateways2Learning.com (division clue words)

In Order to Divide Like a King or Queen...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on January 15, 2012 | No Comments

Sing along with a very catchy song explaining the concept of division as well as long division steps! It is sung to a Stray Cats tune and you can find the lyrics here.

Reminder: V.I.P. Club!...

Posted by MsYork in Classroom Updates on January 11, 2012 | No Comments

Don’t forget to continue your goals in the V.I.P. (Very Intelligent Pupil) Club! There are so many questions that you likely already know! Nouns, verbs, synonyms, math fact families, place value charts, Native American tribes, … the list goes on! Remember, 16 stars places you on the Hall of Fame!

Ch. 2 Test: CA’s Native Americans...

Posted by MsYork in Classroom Updates on January 9, 2012 | No Comments

Just a reminder that our Chapter Two Social Studies test will take place Friday, January 13th. The following sites are fantastic tools for study, as are our blue notebooks and our textbook. Inside our blue notebook, we have written the definitions to all the needed vocabulary, summary paragraphs for each lesson, as well as guideline notes for each chapter guideline. Thoroughly study the vocabulary and guideline notes, and you’ll do just fine!

Chapter Two Study Guideline Notes (also found in the front of your notebook)

Matching Game Vocabulary Practice: First CA’s/ North Coast Region, S. Coast/ Cent. Valley/ Desert T ribes

Native Californian Cultures (great photographs of California Native American artifacts)

The First Californians (links to information about each tribe)

January ’12: Topics-of-Study...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on January 3, 2012 | No Comments

Language Arts: Synonyms/Antonyms, Main Ideas, Commas/Quotation Marks/Apostrophes, Compare/Contrast + Review of Prefixes/Root Words/Suffixes and Step Up to Writing Paragraphs

Synonyms and Antonyms (movie), Synonyms, Squanky the Tooth Taker: Quiet Quest for Opposites, Squanky the Tooth Taker: Tooth Tally, Same Difference
Main Idea (movie), Main Ideas, Summarize As You Read, Reading Nonfiction (movie)
Power Proofreading, Comma Confusion
Compare/Contrast Guide (notes), Compare/Contrast Essay Helper
Wordworks, Root Words, Short Circuit, Prefixes Say Plenty, Spelling with Suffixes, Fish Tanks, Rooting Out Words (review practice)
Step Up to Writing, Step Up to Writing #2 (notes + examples)

Mathematics: Double-Digit Multiplication, Long Division, Fractions/Decimals, Prime Numbers, Line Types, Radius & Diameter, Area & Perimeter

Two-Digit Multiplication (notes), Two Digit by One Digit Multiplication Steps, Two Digit by Two Digit Multiplication Steps (review practice)
Long Division Lesson (sample problems), Snork’s Long Division (review practice), Math Baseball, Sum Sense (division fact games) [Divide (Dad), Multiply (Mom), Subtract (Sister), Bring Down (Brother), Remainder (Rover)]
Study Jams! (video), Basic Parts of a Whole (movie), What’s a Fraction?, Death to Decimals, Comparing Fractions and Decimals, Fresh Baked Fractions, The Decifractator, Saloon Snap, Tony Fraction’s Pizza Shop (challenging fractions)
Prime Numbers (notes), Prime Numbers, Prime Factorization (notes), Prime Factorization (notes/review practice)
Lines (review practice), Matho (review of all geometry terms), Area and Perimeter, Everyday Area, Find the Area, Measuring the Area and Perimeter (review practice), Shape Surveyor, Area: Fitting In (games)
Trimester Two Math Helper (front), Trimester Two Math Helper (back)

Social Studies: Chapters Two & Three – California’s Native Americans & Exploration and Early Settlements

Chapter Two Study Guideline Notes (also found in the front of your notebook)
First Californians/North Coast Region, S. Coast/Cent. Valley/Desert T ribes (vocabulary practice)
Chapter Three Study Guideline Notes
Explorers/Newcomers, Settlements/Missions (vocabulary practice)

Science: Chapters One & Six – Living Things Need Energy & Electricity

Chapter One Resources (vocabulary practice, videos, etc.)
Dirt Made My Lunch, Producers, Consumers, Decomposers (songs from class)
Parts of a Plant, Photosynthesis, Plant Life Cycle, Food Chain (videos)
Illuminating Photosynthesis, Root Factory, Life Cycle of Plants, Food Chains and Food Webs, Food Chains Science Desk, Fun With Food Webs, Eat or Be Eaten, Diversity of Life on Earth (review practice)
Chapter Six Resources (vocabulary practice, videos, etc.)
The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits, Conductors and Insulators, Series and Parallel Circuits, Building Circuits, Heat (movie), Light (movie), Electricity and Magnetism

Matching Game Vocabulary Practice

Happy New Year!...

Posted by MsYork in Classroom Updates on January 1, 2012 | No Comments

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful break and are excited to come back to school! I know I am! While you were gone, we had two DonorsChoose proposals funded! We’re going to receive a set of student dictionaries for students to keep, as well as a large supply of glue sticks to keep us going until the end of the year! Yay! See you soon and be sure to have your two AR chapter books ready to quiz!!!

Winter Break Homework...

Posted by MsYork in Classroom Updates on December 16, 2011 | No Comments

Snowman Welcome to Winter Break! I hope everyone has a joyous holiday! As your children are aware, we do have a few items of homework over the next two weeks. All are simple, but essential!

* Read two AR chapter books and be ready for quizzes on Tuesday morning (1/3/12). All students already chose and wrote down their books on the back of their bright pink homework half-sheet.

* Practice cursive handwriting. Many of our current assignments will now be required in cursive, a fourth grade essential standard.

* Practice multiplication and division facts. Nearly all of January will be spent practicing double-digit multiplication and long division.

See you all in 2012!

Island of the Blue Dolphins...

Posted by MsYork in Classroom Updates on December 15, 2011 | No Comments

Based on a true story, Island of the Blue Dolphins is a time-honored tale that shares the life of Karana, a young Native American girl stranded alone on an island for 18 years. We have been reading this story over the last three weeks and will come to its conclusion tomorrow. As with all great stories, we will also view the movie to compare and contrast different versions of Karana’s tale. For more information about Scott O’Dell or the story itself, please visit the following links!