5th+Grade

Please complete a short survey: HERE

Here are some sites to try for today. Just Kids Games ABC Ya! Toon University

When you are done, try these:
 * Statetris
 * USA Games
 * Test Your USA Geography Knowledge
 * Capital Catch
 * Capital Penguin

Week of April 18 - 21

This week our 5th Graders will continue learning about World Hunger and add grains of rice to our Free Rice group. Here is the plan for class:

1. Go to www.freerice.com 2. Sign up using your PVlearners account. 3. Watch these two videos as I activate your account. 4. Sign in using your username and password. Customize your password. Join the EMIS Group in Free Rice 5. Contest: Who can donate the most grains of rice by the end of the period?
 * Video 1
 * Video 2

Week of April 11:

We will start with a couple Keyboarding Games:


 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0.5em;">Fearless Frieda - Skillful Skateboarding
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0.5em;">Super Hyper Typer Spider
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0.5em;">Fearless Frieda - Big Kahuna

Next go on to some fun math games:

Addition and Subtraction Baseball:

Multiplication and Division Hoops:

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<span style="color: #126969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Week of April 4 - 8:

<span style="color: #126969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I am back and so glad to see you all! Hope you had a great Spring Break! Here's what you will be doing this week:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. Go to PVLearners to write me an email about your break. Answer the following questions: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. When you are done, you may go to these games to work on building those THINKING SKILLS!
 * <span style="color: #126969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Did you go anywhere?
 * <span style="color: #126969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">What was the best thing you did?
 * <span style="color: #126969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">What would have been your dream Spring Break week?
 * <span style="color: #194848; font-family: Times; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;">Play <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">InchWorm . Can you solve all 24 levels?
 * <span style="color: #194848; font-family: Times; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">InchWorm2 . Can you solve all 24 levels?
 * <span style="color: #194848; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Frog Jumpin . How high can you go?

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">March 21 - 25:

<span style="color: #157e50; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Hi there! I am sorry to be missing class time with you and will look forward to seeing you soon!

<span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. Let's review some "Parts of Speech".
 * <span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click here to read about the PARTS of SPEECH

<span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. Now let's use what you know to create a

<span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. You will now illustrate (add pictures) your story.
 * <span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Copy and paste your Wacky Web Tale into Tux Paint (Command C then Command V)
 * <span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Make a picture that goes along with your tale.
 * <span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Be sure your final picture has
 * <span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Your Name
 * <span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Your Wacky Web Tale
 * <span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Your Illustration

<span style="background-color: #a3b8fa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. You may print with permission.

When you are done you may explore these games:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Penguin Physics <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Play Inch Worms <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Wild Mirror

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Each day we practice our keyboarding skills. Why? Because our students need to be prepared for a world that is revoloving more and more around technology that involves the QWERTY keyboard: iPads, laptops, Chrome OS, texting tools, etc. Our students need to establish keyboarding skills that allow them to type quickly, accurately, and with correct technique.

Here is a great video from School Tube that walks the students through hand positions on the QWERTY keyboard: Keyboarding Video

Learning to type numbers lesson: Here

Dance Mat Typing is a fun and different method of practice for our students.

<span style="background-color: #fefed2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5-Wells/Willis Information

<span style="background-color: #fefed2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Procedure: > Added Salt Calcium, Calorie, Cholesterol, Fiber, Food labels, Polyunsaturated Fats, Protein, Serving Size, Sodium, Trans Fat, Unsaturated Fats, Vitamins
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #fefed2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Email me in PV Learners
 * <span style="background-color: #fefed2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">a list of packaged foods you like to eat
 * <span style="background-color: #fefed2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">why you choose some foods more than others
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #fefed2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">We will discuss how you can make food choices that are healthy for your body by reading food labels.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #fefed2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Go to the Food Label Game: Begin Play
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #fefed2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">When complete, email me again the definition to these words using the [|Nutrition Dictionary]