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

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...

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...

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.

Ch. 2 Test: CA’s Native Americans...

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 Tribes

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

The First Californians (links to information about each tribe)

January ’12: Topics-of-Study...

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 Tribes (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

Happy New Year!...

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!!!