Holiday Multiplication Practice

Gooey gum drop buttons! Each time you get a multiplication fact correct, another piece of the holiday scene is revealed! When you complete the level, you get to build your own holiday picture!

Happy Holidays Multiplication Practice

SpellingCity.com: AMAZING Resource!

What an amazing find this weekend! SpellingCity offers vocabulary practice in all forms! Written and oral practice, definition review, practice tests, and tons of games! I’ve taken some time this weekend to enter our whole year’s worth of spelling words! We’re on Unit 1: Lesson 3 this week, so jump right in and get started! Please do not pass this resource by, especially if your child has less than a B average in spelling! Simply visit SpellingCity.com/MsYork!

Study Island

Our school has Study Island! Study Island is a web-based learning site that students can access anywhere. It allows children to practice California state standards both at home and school while progressing at their own speed. Study Island gives immediate feedback and also provides students the opportunity to engage in fun games as review. Your child will be given a username and password for the language arts section of the site. If you are in need of your login, please use the contact form and I will e-mail you the information your child needs. Have fun on the island!

The World of Brian P. Cleary

Brian P. Cleary is the author of a series of bestselling, very clever, rhyming grammar books. We were lucky enough to have a collection of his books donated from gracious DonorsChoose donors two years ago.

The World of Brian P. Cleary is the author’s quirky, kid-friendly website. There’s so much to see that it’s hard to direct you to any particular section of the site. You can test your knowledge on the parts of speech, write a “Crazy Cat Tale” (think Mad Libs), play the train game, read the words and poems of the week, review addition and subtraction, practice your measurements of length, and much more! Poke around for 30 seconds and you’ll find a place you like! Check it out!

OLogy

The American Museum of Natural History is host to a wonderful website called OLogy! Kids, “ology” is a suffix meaning … what? … “the study of”! Remember that one. OLogy breaks down science into a number of categories, including: Archeology, Astronomy, Biodiversity, Earth, Einstein, Genetics, Marine Biology, Paleontology, and Water. Our current scientific study is that of rocks and minerals, making the “If Rocks Could Talk” interview right up our alley! Take some time over Winter Break and indulge your inner scientist!

A Maths Dictionary for Kids

Yes, you read it right: m-a-t-h-s. The following site was made by an Australian school teacher, therefore the term “maths” as opposed to “math” is used. Really, “mathematics” is plural, so “maths” is probably the better term. But I digress.

A Maths Dictionary for Kids is a wonderful site full of colorful and easily explained math definitions. For many of our trimester two standards (area and perimeter, radius and diameter, parallel/perpendicular/intersecting lines, etc.), these definitions are a great reference source. On several of the definition pages, there are also small interactive practices! It’s been listed on the Homework Help page for a while, but if you haven’t checked it out yet, head over there!

BrainPop Jr.

Lucky Room 36! We have just acquired a classroom subscription to BrainPopJr! This is a fantastic service that shows short cartoon movies covering a variety of content ranging from Writing a Paragraph to Camouflage to Food Chains! These movies can be viewed on our classroom computers from 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM using the same username and password as the one used for our classroom book orders. If you have forgotten the username/password, send a quick note or e-mail and I will send it to you. Classroom book orders will be going home soon and they will also have this information reprinted. Many of the videos are linked under specific content areas on our Games page, but feel free to browse the entire site as well.

FreeRice.com

Want to help donate food to people in need AND practice your vocabulary? Visit Free Rice and try to define some VERY tricky words!