Classroom Happenings
Third Six Weeks
November 8- December 21, 2004
2nd
Six Weeks Report Card
Honorees
Communications
Reading, Language, Spelling, and
Handwriting are all included under "Communications". Each year, there is a
strong demand for students to excel in this area. I am requiring that students
in my reading class have a library card from the
Nashville Public Library.
This is essential in order for the students to meet the requirement of reading
one (1) book each six weeks.
Action
Verbs: Active Anna "Here is a little
story to help you learn about Action Verbs."
Activity:
Verbs Galore Discover a fun game the entire
family can play.
The
Blue Book
Use this site to find
the answers to your questions concerning proper English grammar and
punctuation.
Contractions
This is a nice practice worksheet on contractions. The main site also
provide other subject resources.
Grammar
Central will help you understand subject-verb agreement.
Grammar
Gorillas
Impress
these gorillas with your knowledge of the part of speech.
Handwriting4Kids
This site provides worksheet and practice guides for students learning to write.
Mrs.
Dowling's Grammar Rules - Capitalization Rules Capitalizing proper
nouns is covered, with examples given. There is a printable quiz as well as
an online quiz to take.
Nouns
“A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.” Proper nouns,
noun clauses, and noun phrases are discussed.
Phrasal
Verbs "Phrasal Verbs" is a game for
practicing verbs. The player chooses a topic and then matches the verb,
particle and meaning. If the correct answer is chosen a point is scored.
Requires Shockwave to play.
Predicates,
Objects, Complements “A predicate is the
completer of a sentence.” There are examples of the proper use of
predicates on this page.
Sentence
Subjects “The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing,
or idea that is doing or being something.” There is a quiz at the end to
see if you can “Identifying Simple and Compound Subjects.”
StuFun.com
This is an excellent site that provides interactive grammar games for
students.
Word
Class: Nouns The types of nouns including
proper, common, concrete, and abstract are explored in this paper.
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Mathematics
Mathematics is a key mastery
subject because each skill is a foundation to a second skill. The links provided
below will assist the student in mastering skills for math. Please make sure
that the student refers to classroom notes when completing homework.
Adding Decimals
An online quiz to test skills on adding decimals.
All About Math--Fourth Grade
The site provide information on all of the skills covered in your child's fourth
grade year.
BasketMath Interactive
Learning is a great site to increase your math knowledge through games.
Estimating
Differences Online game that test estimating differences skills.
Estimating Sums
Online game that tests estimating sum skills.
Exploring
Place-Value Relationships is designed for students to learn place value
in standard and word form.
Flash Cards for Kids
lets you practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. You can
keep up with your score as you submit your answers.
Math Webquests
Place Value
An online game that challenges your skills on place
value positions.
Place Value of
Decimals
This online game tests
decimal place value skills.
Place Value of
Whole Numbers
This online game tests whole number place value skills.
Quia - Matching - Read That Number!
Online game of matching standard form numbers to their word form card.
Subtracting
Decimals
An online quiz to test
skills on subtracting decimals.
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Science
Sylvan Park is participating in the K-6
Hands-On Science Curriculum. This means that students will receive four (4)
hands-on science kits lessons and four (4) mini-units of science. This
curriculum is not broken down into six weeks intervals, but four cycles. Please
review the chart below to see which cycle, kit, and mini-unit your child will be
using for this six weeks:
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GRADE LEVEL: 4 |
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Cycle 1 |
Meteorology |
Land and Water |
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Cycle 2 |
Human Body |
Animal Studies |
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Cycle 3 |
Chemistry |
Food Chemistry |
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Cycle 4 |
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Electric Circuits |
Collecting Fossils in California
dig into the wealth of information regarding old and new finds. Check out
their Fossil of the Month!
Cool Geology for Kids
Did you know if we mined all the world's oceans for gold, each
person on Earth would get 9 pounds
Fossils and Fossil
Collecting was developed for students who may have an interest a fossil
collection and tips on how to get one started.
Rock Hounds with
Rocky offers a wealth of information on the rocks that establish the
composition of our planet. Several interesting activities for students.
Savage Earth
This is the PBS series on the Earth's ever-changing composition.
Sue @ Chicago's Field Museum
Visit Sue: The largest, most complete, and best preserved T. Rex.
Treasures @ Sea This site allows students to explore the ocean through
literature.
Volcano World's
Kids Door Students are able to view the volcano art gallery, go on a
virtual volcano field trip, or take the online quiz.
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Social Studies
Explorer WebQuest
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Character Education
In the third six
weeks, the following character skills will be addressed:
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