Grade 5 Billy Carts Made by the Students Themselves!

Grade 5 Billy Carts Made by the Students Themselves!

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Monday, March 31, 2008

New Zealand Bloggers

Hi Grade 5,
Here are some Grade 5 bloggers from New Zealand. Click here 
http://e3eclat.blogspot.com

Sunday, March 30, 2008

A Cool Challenge

Check this out Grade 5 Questionaut

Grammar Practice

Captain Underpants

Hi Grade 5,
I found this comic maker on the web. Why don't you try it? Send me your comic when you have finished.
http://apps.scholastic.com/captainunderpants/comic/play.htm

Monday, March 24, 2008

Dreamworld (A peek at Q4)

Mapping your country

compass rose -- 5 points
country boundaries -- 5 points
country name -- 5 points
capital city -- 5 points
five cities -- (2 points for each city) 10 points
scale of kilometers -- 10 points
landforms -- (at least five different ones, five points each) 25 points
icons to show five natural resources found in the country -- 5 points each (25 points)
neatly color the map -- 10 points

Create a fact sheet or an almanac page for the imaginary country. This sheet might present a wide variety of information and statistics about the country.

Create graphs to show information related to the imaginary country (for example, populations of the largest cities, population or income growth over the last century, or value of goods produced by major industries).

Students can use art supplies to create colorful graphs, or they might use graphing software or the online Create a Graph tool. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Invent a currency for the country and create a chart to show equivalencies between the country's currency and U.S. dollars.

Here are some of the activities that you will do for Dreamland.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

An Easter Game


Here is a great Easter game with a quiz. Put your score in the comment box.
Here is the link
http://www.akidsheart.com/holidays/easter/eggswapq.htm

Monday, March 17, 2008

Concerning Mike Teavee

Hi Grade 5,
Here it is - the POEM! 

White = All
Green = Mothers
Purple = Kids

The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set - 
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.

In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about, 
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)

They sit all stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotized by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all the shocking ghastly junk.

Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,

They never fight or kick or punch,

They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink -

But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what

This does to your beloved tot?

IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK - HE ONLY SEES!

"All right!" you'll cry. "All right!" you'll say.
"But if we take the set away,

What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children! Please explain!"

We'll answer this by asking you,
"What used the darling ones to do?
How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?"

Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and the proceed 
TO READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!

The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!

Such wondrous, fine,
fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies,
queens and whales.
(Kevin, Suah and Ristia)

And treasures isles,
and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed
with muffled oars.
(Mich P, Beni and Raymond)

And pirates wearing
purple pants,
And sailing ships
and elephants,
(Alizka, Andrew and Jennifer)

And cannibals crouching
round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good what can it be? Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
(Mandy, Hansen and Jinju)

The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
(Mich P, Jesslyn and Brodie)

And Squirrel Nutkin,
Pigling Bland
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and -
(Mich T, Raymond and Mandy)

Just How The Camel 
Got His Hump
And How The Monkey
Lost His Rump,
(Hansen, Kevin and Mich T)

And Mr. Toad
and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole -
(Ristia, Suah and Beni)

Oh books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,

And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall

Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks -

Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,

They'll now begin to fell the need
Of having something good to read.

And once they start - oh boy, oh boy!

You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine, 

That nauseating, foul unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.


Saturday, March 15, 2008

Online Spelling

Hi Grade 5,
I am going to try using this online spelling with you next quarter. Here is the link

studying for your weekly spelling test has never been easier.

You will be able to practice for your tests using the games and other learning tools via this site. Why don't you try one of the Grade 5 lists now? I have started the registration process and will let you know when we have approval.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Another Spelling Bee (Hard)

Here is another one that is from America.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/DL_spelling_bee/game/

Other resources:

http://www.myspellit.com/need2know.html ( a list of words that you need to know)

Online Spelling Quiz


Hi Grade 5 Spelling Bee contestants!
Here is that online spelling bee for you to practice with.
Click on this link
http://www.ozspeller.com/