Skills to Know: Top 3...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on September 16, 2011 | No Comments

At the present time, there are three skills that students need to have mastered in order to continue our studies. You will find them below with links for practice. Please help your child if these skills are not yet mastered!

1) Multiplication Facts: 0-3 — Multiplication Chart, Fact Families, Mr. Nussbaum’s Multiplication Games, Multiplication.com

2) Names of All Mathematical Places — Place Value Made Easy, Place Value and Number Forms, Scooter Quest, Place Value Pirates, Everything in Its Place, Place Value Puzzler

3) Names/Locations of Seven Continents & Five Oceans — The Continents and Oceans, Name the Continents, World Continents Quizzes, Test Your Geography Knowledge

Early September ’11: Topics-of-Study...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on September 8, 2011 | No Comments

Thanks for staying up to date with Room 36! Please use the following videos, notes, and review exercises for regular at-home practice. By mid to late September, students should be able to understand and internalize the majority of the following information. If you can’t find the login information for BrainPopJr (the site with all the “video” tags below), please send me a quick e-mail or note, and I can give you the details. The videos are well worth watching!

Language Arts: Sentence Types, Complete Sentences, Expanding Sentences, Finding Information in Books

Types of Sentences (video), Four Types of Sentences (notes), Sentence Clubhouse (review practice)
Complete Sentences: Subjects and Predicates (notes), Complete, Subject, or Predicate? (review practice), Expanding Sentences (printable practice page)
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)

Mathematics: Place Value, Standard/Written/Expanded Forms of Numbers, Multiplication Facts

Place Value and Number Forms (notes), Scooter Quest, Place Value Pirates, Everything in Its Place, Matching Math (value), Place Value Puzzler (review practice)
What’s Your Name?, Decimals of the Caribbean, Mystery Picture, Really Big Numbers, Cookie Dough (review practice)
Multiplication Chart (notes), Fact Families, Multiplication.com (review practice)
Trimester One Math Helper (front), Trimester One Math Helper (back)

Social Studies: General Global Geography; Begin Chapter One — California’s Geography

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

14 Great Games to Play with Reference Materials!...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on March 27, 2011 | No Comments

By Kathy Grubb

Are you feeling trapped in the house this winter? Looking for a solution for the mid winter blahs? Break up the boredom by opening up a few reference books and playing a few games.

Reference books can be as dry as toast made in the Sahara and as boring as watching paint dry on a rock, but with gentle competition, your family can practice using reference materials and still have fun!

Here are several games to play as individuals, teams, or a family using a dictionary, a set of encyclopedias (the old-fashioned kind, not the computer kind), an atlas, and a phone book (like the Yellow Pages). These games will not only break up the long winter day but also reinforce skills that might have been overlooked during the course of the year. Most of these games are suited for fourth graders and older, but younger readers can still benefit with assistance from a parent or older sibling.

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Mid March ’11: Topics-of-Study...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on March 20, 2011 | No Comments

Language Arts: Comparing/Contrasting Characters, Figurative Language, Essay Writing + Review of Making Predictions, Main Ideas

Compare/Contrast Guide (notes), Compare/Contrast Essay Helper, Compare/Contrast Characters
Figurative Language (notes), Fling the Teacher, Paint by Idioms, Batter Up
Step Up to Writing (notes), How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay
Guess What Comes Next, Making Predictions
Main Idea, Reading Nonfiction (movies), Summarize As You Read (review practice)

Mathematics: Order of Operations (PEMDAS), Coordinate Graphing, Length of Line Segments, Number Lines + Review of Degrees/Turns

What is PEMDAS? (video), Operation Order (PEMDAS), Order of Operations (PEMDAS)
Coordinate Graphing, What’s the Point?, Billy Bug #2
Finding the Length of Line Segments (notes)
Line Jumper, Racing Along the Number Line, The Decimal Detectives, Find Grampy
Degrees and Turns Slideshow (notes), Angles (degrees), Banana Hunt, Degrees to Turns Converter

Social Studies: Chapter Four — Mexican Rule in California

Study Guideline Notes — Chapter Four
Mex Freedom/Econ/Rancho Life (vocabulary practice)

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 Science Desk (review practice)
Fun With Food Webs, Eat or Be Eaten, Diversity of Life on Earth

Multi-Digit Multiplication Tricks...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on January 6, 2011 | No Comments

The second trimester is well underway and as stated at conference time, it involves a lot of multiplication! If your child struggles with the traditional method for double-digit multiplication, watch the following video for two different techniques your child can use to answer these problems: The Breakdown and The Box!

Mid November ’10: Topics-of-Study...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on November 17, 2010 | No Comments

Language Arts: Synonyms/Antonyms, Prefixes/Root Words/Suffixes, Main Ideas, Summary Writing + Review of all Trimester One Standards

Same Difference, Synonyms, Squanky the Tooth Taker: Quiet Quest for Opposites, Squanky the Tooth Taker: Tooth Tally (all games), Synonyms and Antonyms (movie)
Root Words, Word Parts (all notes), Root Words, Prefixes Say Plenty (review practice), Rooting Out Words (game), Short Circuit, Spelling with Suffixes, Fish Tanks, Wordworks, Spelling Prefixes
Main Idea, Summarize As You Read (review practice)
Step Up to Writing, Step Up to Writing #2 (notes + examples)
Trimester One: Cause and Effect (notes), Cause/Effect, Cause/Effect #2 (review practice), Fact or Opinion (notes), Fact or Opinion, Fact or Opinion #2 (review practice), Common Conjunctions: FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so), Conjunction Junction, Grammar Gorillas, Supernova Sentence Puzzles, Irregular Verbs, Wacky Web Tales, Adjective and Adverb Trail, Parts of Speech (review practice), Capitalization Rules (notes), Capitalization, Capitalization #2 (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)

Mathematics: Congruency, Area and Perimeter, Two-Digit Multiplication + Review of Estimating, Rounding/Estimating, Multiplication Equals

Congruent Concentration (Congruency = Same shape, same size. The shape may be rotated.)
Shape Surveyor, Perimeter and Area, Bucky’s Blueprints, Area: Fitting In, Area in Odd Shapes and Places (challenging area)
Two-Digit Multiplication (notes), Two Digit Steps (review practice)
Rounding and Estimating (notes and review practice), Rounding and Estimating Decimals (notes)
Here are a few examples of equals: If 3 + 4 + 7 = 3 + n + 7, then n=4. lf 22 x 3 = m x 11 x 3, then m=2.
Estimating = Rounding all numbers before adding, subtracting, or multiplying [Rounding (notes), Rounding, Rounding #2, Rounders Rounding (review practice)]
Trimester Two Math Helper (front), Trimester Two Math Helper (back)

Social Studies: Chapter Two – California’s Indians (Native Americans)

Study Guideline Notes (Ch.2), Textbook Enrichment
First CA’s/North Coast Region, S. Coast/Cent. Valley/Desert T ribes (vocabulary practice)
The First Californians, Native Californian Cultures

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

Addition and Subtraction Word Problems...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on October 19, 2010 | No Comments

Here’s another review for ya’! We’re having a little trouble deciphering between addition and subtraction word problems (i.e.: knowing when to add and when to subtract). In order to practice at home (and help with Accelerated Math practices), please visit the following sites! Great, fun, review!

Thinking Blocks: Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Mrs. Bogucki’s Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Math Playground Word Problems

Early October ’10: Topics-of-Study...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on October 6, 2010 | No Comments

Language Arts: Step Up to Writing Review, Fact and Opinion, Cause and Effect, Parts of Speech, Capitalizing/Underlining Titles

Step Up to Writing, Step Up to Writing #2 (notes + examples)
Fact or Opinion, Fact or Opinion #2 (review practice)
Cause and Effect (notes), Cause/Effect, Cause and Effect (review practice)
Rocket Word Tag, Alien Word Mine, Grammar Gorillas, Supernova Sentence Puzzles, Irregular Verbs, Wacky Web Tales (Mad Libs), Adjective and Adverb Trail, Parts of Speech (review practice)
Capitalization Rules (notes), Capitalization, Capitalization #2 (review practice)

Mathematics: Comparing and Ordering Numbers, Equal Equations, Rounding, Review of Place Value + Multiplication Facts

Comparing and Ordering Numbers (notes), One False Move (review practice)
Here are a few examples of equals: If 3 + 4 + 7 = 3 + n + 7, then n=4. lf 22 x 3 = m x 11 x 3, then m=2. If 4r = 20, then r = 5. If you find any practice sites for this concept, please let me know!
Rounding (notes), Rounding, Rounding #2, Rounders Rounding (review practice)
Place Value and Number Forms (notes), Place Value Pirates, Everything in Its Place, Place Value Puzzler (review practice)
Multiplication Chart (notes), Fact Families, Save the Clown Fish, Around the World in 80 Seconds, Dude’s Dilemma (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)
Water and Land (song practiced in class)

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

Early January ’10: Topics-of-Study...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on December 30, 2009 | No Comments

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

Early October ’09: Topics-of-Study...

Posted by MsYork in Topics-of-Study on October 12, 2009 | No Comments

Language Arts: Facts & Opinions, Cause & Effect, Multiple Meaning Words, Six Traits of Writing: Ideas, Review of Finding Information in Books + Step Up to Writing Format + Capitalizing/Underlining Titles