Early January ’10: Topics-of-Study

Language Arts: Synonyms/Antonyms, Main Ideas, Commas/Quotation Marks/Apostrophes + 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, Punctuation Paintball, Comma Confusion
• Wordworks, Root Words, Short Circuit, Prefixes Say Plenty, Spelling with Suffixes, Fish Tanks, Spelling Prefixes, 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 + Review of Line Types, Radius & Diameter, Area

• Two Digit Multiplication Steps (review practice)
• Snork’s Long Division, Math Baseball
• Study Jams! (video), Basic Parts of a Whole (movie), What’s a Fraction?, Death to Decimals, Fishy Fractions: Fraction and Decimal Match, Comparing Fractions and Decimals, Fishy Fractions: Equivalent Fractions, Fresh Baked Fractions, The Decifractator, Saloon Snap, Tony Fraction (challenging fractions)
• Prime Factoring, Grid Game
• Lines (review practice), Matho (review of all geometry terms), Area and Perimeter, Everyday Area, Find the Area
• Trimester Two Math Helper (front), Trimester Two Math Helper (back)

Social Studies: Chapter Three –Exploration and Early Settlements

• Explorers/Newcomers, Settlements/Missions (vocabulary practice)
• Early California Explorers (Cabrillo, Cortes, Drake, Vizcaino; Cermeno here)
• Chapter Three Guideline Notes

Science: Chapter Six –Electricity

• Chapter Six Resources
• The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits, Conductors and Insulators, Series and Parallel Circuits, Building Circuits, Heat (movie), Light (movie), Electricity and Magnetism