Mid February ’09: Topics-of-Study

Language Arts: Summary Writing, Making Predictions + Review of Compare and Contrast, Main Ideas

• Step Up to Writing (notes)
• Guess What Comes Next, Making Predictions
• Compare/Contrast Guide (notes), Compare/Contrast Essay Helper
• Main Idea, Reading Nonfiction (movies), Summarize As You Read (review practice)

Mathematics: Degrees and Turns, Plotting Coordinate Points/Length of Line Segments, Area and Perimeter + Review of Prime Numbers, Long Division, and Quadrilaterals

• Degrees and Turns Slideshow (notes), Angles (degrees), Degrees to Turns Converter
• What’s the Point?, Billy Bug (easy), Billy Bug #2, Finding the Length of Line Segments (notes)
• Area and Perimeter, Measuring the Area and Perimeter (review practice), Shape Surveyor, Bucky’s Blueprints, Area: Fitting In (games)
• Long Division Lesson (sample problems), Snork’s Long Division (review practice), Math Baseball, Sum Sense (division fact games)
• Prime Numbers (notes), Prime Numbers, Prime Factorization (notes), Prime Factorization (notes/review practice), Grid Game (game)
• Quadrilaterals (notes), Meet the Quadrilateral Family, Quadrilateral Quest, Quadrilaterals Memory Game

Social Studies: Chapter Three – Exploration and Early Settlements

• Study Guideline Notes — Chapter Three
• Ready, Set, … Watch! (European Explorers Lapbook Video Just for Us!)
• Explorers/Newcomers, Settlements/Missions (all vocabulary practice)

Science: Chapter Six – Electricity

• Chapter 6 Resources (vocabulary practice, movies, etc.)
• Magnetism and Electricity