Thursday, October 22, 2009

Learning about the rain forest...

Good morning boys and girls today we are going to continue our lessons on ecosystems today we are going to learn about the rain forest... Yesterday we read "The Great Kapok Tree". Today we are going to listen to another classes interpretation of this book. Please watch the video below.



Now that you have seen how the other class interpreted this book I would like you each to draw a picture of the page you were assigned yesterday... no looking at the book just draw what you think it should look like.
Bring the pages to class tomorrow and we will make our own book out of them!

See you tomorrow boys and girls.

Opposite and adjacent angles of a triangle

Good morning boys and girls today we are going to learn the difference between opposite and adjacent angles of a triangle. Watch the following video to learn the differences, be carefull to listen closely because you will need draw and lable a triangle once you are done watching the video.




Now I need each of you to draw a right triangle and lable it's angles with upper case letters and their opposite angles with the same lower case letters.
You may turn these in on Friday in class. Thank-you class!

Pollution in our air...

Good morning boys and girls. Today we are going to continue our lessons on protecting our planet and ways to be green.
Below is the history of the hybrid car. Some of you may ask what is a hybrid car. Dictonary.com defines it as - an automobile with more than one power source, such as an electric motor and internal combustion engine or an electric motor with battery and fuel cells for energy storage. This is a vehical that runs on electricity instead of only gas.
Take a look at the time line below (ask a parent or sibling to help you with the hard words)
If you click the green button at the bottom of the gray square and drag it to the right you will be able to view more of the time line.



Now that you know a little bit more about the Hybrid car I need you to make a list of 5 reasons why a hybrid car would be a good thing for our enviornment, and why it would be "the green thing to do" how would it help our enviornment?

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Parent and student vertual lesson!!!

Good morning students and parents.
Today we will be learning about addition.
Student do you remember adding in class?
Explain to whoever is helping you how we add when we are in class?



Today we are going to practice our adding two different ways.
Right click HERE and click open in new window to begin!

The first screen you will encounter looks like this:



Please click on the link that follows number 11.
It says Counting Change. This should bring you to a page that looks like this:



Now all you need to do students is to look at the yellow squares and add up the coins in each box and match them with the amounts that are in the green boxes.
(Parents if your student is struggling with the words and need to picture these coins please feel free to take out some change, read the yellow box to them and show them a pile of coins that represents what the yellow box says)
Once you have played at least 4 rounds of the coin game please continue to the next link.


Right click here and select open in new window for the next math game!
When you click on the link it should bring you to the page below:



Next I need to you to clock on the purple addition game button in the second column third from the top.
Clicking on the purple addition button should bring you to a page that looks like the one below:



Press the green go button
Then click the black > play button on the bottom right.
AND begin adding... do a minimum of 15 of these problems before coming back to the blog.

GREAT JOB STUDENTS!

I am very proud of you... If you ever want to practice your math you can come back to Mrs. DeWittes blog and practice.
But remember you much bring a parent with you!

See you in class,
Mrs. DeWitte