"Show Me" Videos

Today we created videos using the "Show Me" app on the iPads.  Students solved multiplication problems by explaining the step by step process.  Here are the links to some of our videos!


http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=QUy2LJY

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=xE4oplY

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=pV4L2lU

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=yXtvPbU

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=FozkK1I

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=1BY8ZFI

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=fiE77rc

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=LUATz9c

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=sDHGTZY

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=dZpeinY

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=GOoDLnM

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=35BiApE

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=dbZdsR6

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=mDiBlrc

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=dMol4wy

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=EryD86q

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=lb4zcYq

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=p3IYbQm

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=GNjTNq4

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=sVW7aIi

Reading

Reading at home each night is important to help your child build reading skills such as fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.  Here is a list of discussion questions to use with your child when reading a fiction text.  Just pick a few questions from the list to ask your child after reading.  It is not necessary to ask every question each time.:

• Where and when does this story take place?  How do you know?
• What is the story about?
• Who are the main characters?
• Why did the author write this story?
• What is the problem in this story?
• How was this problem solved?
• Did the story end the way you expected it to?
• Who is telling the story?  How would the story change if someone else were telling it?
• Does the main character in the story change over time?  How does he/she change?  How do you know he/she changed?
• If you could be any character in the story, whom would you choose?  Why?
• Why do you suppose the author gave the book this title?
• Did you have strong feelings as you read this story?  What did the author do to make you feel strongly?
• Make a flow chart to show what happened in this story (sequence events using sentences, can also add pictures).  

Math Extra Credit!!

Our math CBA is tomorrow (Thursday, October 4th).  If students play at least one game from the place value section, one game from the rounding section, and one game from the addition and subtraction section of the blog, I will give them a free 100 in math.  Just write down the name of the games your child plays and have a parent sign the paper and bring it to school tomorrow morning.  This is a great opportunity to review for the CBA!

Math CBA Next Week

Our first math CBA (Curriculum Based Assessment) is next Thursday, October 4th.  This CBA will cover each of the math concepts we have studied so far this year - place value, comparing and ordering numbers, addition and subtraction with regrouping, examples and nonexamples (looking at a group of objects and deciding how they are related and which other objects would fit into that group), and rounding to the tens place and hundreds place.  Here are some activities to help your child review for the CBA.  The rounding rhyme is what we use in class to to help students remember how to round to the nearest ten or the nearest hundred. 

Place Value 

Place Value Teaching Video
Expanded Form Teaching Video

Better Cast Off Game

Place Value Pirates

Place Value Golf

Place Value to 100,000

Place Value Tank Game

Place Value Puzzler

Place Value to 100,000

Cast Off

Robo Works

Bugle Farms

Place Value Video

Eagles and Airplanes

Expanded Form

Rounding Rhyme

Underline the place to be rounded
Circle the number to the right

One through four - hold on tight

Five or more - watch it grow

Everything else turns into a ZERO

Another Rounding Rhyme

Find the number in its spot.
Go next door and see what you've got.
5 or more raise the score,
4 or less let it rest.
All the numbers to the right run to zero in a fright.

Rounding Websites

Rounding to the Tens Practice

Rounding to the Hundreds Practice
Rounding Practice

Three Digit Addition and Subtraction Websites

Math Journey (Choose either 3 digit addition or 3 digit subtraction)

Textbook Lessons and Games on Subtraction

Textbook Lessons and Games on Addition

Social Studies

Use this website to research the following people: Kids Info Bits

• Juan de Onate
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington
• Christopher Columbus
• Benjamin Franklin
• Benjamin Banneker
• Pierre-Charles L'Enfant

Founding Documents

Our Founding Documents

Spelling City

Spelling City has some great activities for students to practice spelling words.  Students can enter in their spelling words and play a game or take a test over their words.  There is a link to this site on the left side of the blog under the category "Useful Links".