Autumn Multiplication Practice...

Alright guys, at this point, we should have our 0-7 facts 100% mastered! Now comes the fun part — look at how easy your multiplication games will be! We’ve  briefly discussed the x9 hand trick, x10 and x11 are a breeze, … this means the only new fact to memorize is 8×8=64! Try your hand at some of the new fall games from Multiplication.com for review: Harvest Hootenanny and Pumpkin Patch!

Chapter One California Test...

The Chapter One California test will take place on Friday, November 4th. Please be sure to focus your studies by using your tan notebook. Specifically spend time reviewing all vocabulary words and guideline notes. Below, you will find further helpers for review:

Vocabulary Practice:

• CA’s Location/Regions of CA (Lessons 1-2)
• Climate/Vegetation, etc. (Lessons 3-4)
• Life in CA (Lesson 5)

Chapter Review:

• Chapter One Quiz!
• Chapter One Guideline Notes
• Rural, Suburban, and Urban (video)

Regrouping (Borrowing) in Subtraction...

Quite a few students appear to need a refresher course in regrouping during subtraction. I found the following video to be helpful.

BrainPop Jr....

Lucky Room 36! Thanks to last year’s Math*A*Thon funds and parent donations, our class has a subscription to BrainPopJr! This is a fantastic service that shows short cartoon movies covering a variety of content ranging from Writing a Paragraph and Camouflage to Rounding and Food Chains! These movies can be viewed by using the username and password sent home to you. It is also found in our Back to School Night Packet. If you have forgotten the username/password, send a quick note or e-mail and I will resend it to you. Many of the videos are linked under specific content areas on our Games page, but feel free to browse the entire site as well!

Mid-October ’11: Topics-of-Study...

Language Arts: Step Up to Writing Review, Multiple Meaning Words, Fact-Opinion and Cause-Effect, Parts of Speech, Review of Complete Sentences + Finding Information in Books

• Step Up to Writing, Step Up to Writing #2 (notes + examples)
• Words with Multiple Meanings, Words in Context, Multiple Meaning Words (review practice)
• Fact or Opinion (notes), Fact or Opinion, Fact or Opinion #2 (review practice)
• Cause and Effect (notes), Cause/Effect, Cause and Effect (review practice)
• Grammar Gorillas, Irregular Verbs, Wacky Web Tales (Mad Libs), Adjective and Adverb Trail, Parts of Speech (review practice)
• Parts of a Book (notes), Reading Nonfiction (video), Parts of a Book, How to Locate Parts of a Book (review practice), Using a Dictionary (review practice and notes)
• Complete Sentences: Subjects and Predicates (notes), Complete, Subject, or Predicate? (review practice)

Mathematics: Rounding, Estimating, Review of Place Value + Comparing/Ordering Numbers + Multiplication Facts

• Rounding (notes), Rounding (movie), Rounding, Rounding #2, Rounders Rounding (review practice)
• Rounding and Estimating (notes and review practice), Rounding and Estimating Decimals (notes)
• Place Value and Number Forms (notes), Scooter Quest, Place Value Pirates, Everything in Its Place, Matching Math, Place Value Puzzler, What’s Your Name?, Decimals of the Caribbean, Mystery Picture, Really Big Numbers, Cookie Dough (review practice)
• Comparing and Ordering Numbers (notes), Comparing Numbers (easy movie), One False Move (review practice)
• Multiplication Chart (notes), Fact Families, Multiplication.com (review practice)
• Trimester One Math Helper (front), Trimester One Math Helper (back)

Social Studies: Chapter One — California’s Geography, Review of General Global Geography

• California Geography (notes), CA’s Location/Regions of CA, Climate/Vegetation, etc. (vocabulary practice), The Geography of California
• The Continents and Oceans, Name the Continents, World Continents Quizzes, Test Your Geography Knowledge (review practice)
• Latitude and Longitude (video), Latitude and Longitude Game, Basic Geography: The Equator and the Prime Meridian, Water and Land (song from class), Reading Maps (video)

Science: Chapter One — Living Things Need Energy

• Chapter One Resources (vocabulary practice, videos, and more)
• Dirt Made My Lunch, Producers, Consumers, Decomposers (songs from class)
• Parts of a Plant, Photosynthesis, Plant Life Cycle (videos)
• Illuminating Photosynthesis, Root Factory, Life Cycle of Plants (review practice)
• Food Chain (video), Food Chains and Food Webs, Food Chains Science Desk, Fun With Food Webs, Eat or Be Eaten, Diversity of Life on Earth (review practice)

Photosynthesis Hands-On Lab ’11...