Students, what other ways could we use ThingLink in the classroom? I'd love to hear your ideas!
To end our year, students have been reading the hilarious play Blame it on the Wolf by Douglas Love. As we have been working with the play, we have completed a number of activities to help enhance student comprehension and fluency. Below, you will find a ThingLink that I have created so students can access the resources that have been made to go along with our play. Here you will find activities, videos, the script and more as you hover over the ThingLink! Students, what other ways could we use ThingLink in the classroom? I'd love to hear your ideas!
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Roses are red, violets are blue, we love poetry, how about you? We've spent the month of May learning all about different types of poetry. The students have been creating some amazing poetry themselves, too! I discovered a great new technology tool called ThingLink that we will use to help us discover even more about poetry! Students, click on one of the the ThingLink tabs to be transported to a website that will help you learn more about poetry! As I was planning your next grammar focus I had a great idea! I thought, "Wouldn't it be cool to use some virtual dice!" At first it took me a while to locate the right resource, but after some searching (and pausing when my Sunday night shows came back from commercial) I found an excellent resource to use! You may be curious, thinking "Why would we use dice for grammar, has Miss Marsel gone crazy again...?" Let me explain: Our grammar focus this week is Homophones and we will be using this awesome dice resource to engage our minds and strengthen our learning! I'd love to hear what ideas you guys have for using the dice in other lessons. Post your ideas below! Don't be afraid to share your ideas, you never know, I might use some of them in class :) Wow! I have found an amazing tool to help our students with basic memory recall activities! Flippity.net is a FANTASTIC and easy to use website that allows anyone to create virtual flashcards! Click the States and Capitals Flashcards link in this post or go to our classroom States, Capitals and Regions tab to practice states and capitals online! Flippity.net is a great resource for students of all ages :) Students in Miss Marsel's Reading class recently finished a novel by Michelle Y. Green. This novel told the story of the famous Negro Leagues baseball pitcher Mamie Johnson. The book is called A Strong Right Arm. This story was especially fitting to be read in March as it discusses important moments in Black History (February was Black History Month), it depicts a strong and empowering woman (March is Women's History Month) and it is all about baseball (Spring training is well underway!)! Students: Make a post reviewing A Strong Right Arm below. Your post must include 4 components: a short summary about the book, your favorite character and why, if you did or did not like it and why, and a recommendation (if you think someone should or should not read this book. Pick up a few books and read some sample reviews to help get you started. Your blog post is due Friday April 4th. Click the Edmodo link to travel to our classroom Edmodo page! You can also type in http://bit.ly/O9kRyE to gain access to our classroom account! Students can engage in collaborative discussion and meaningful learning through this great resource :) Our class code is: 653esc Students in Miss Marsel's classroom have begun writing pen-pal letters to a classroom in San Antonio, TX. We want to get to know each other very well, so we are asking questions of our pen-pals each time we write! One interesting fact we want our pen-pals to learn about us is our favorite vacation spots! Students used Google Forms and the amazing website batchgeo.com to create this map in order to show their pen pals where they love to go! Check it out by clicking the Vacation Spots link! View Miss Marsel's Class Favorite Vacation Spots! in a full screen map This week, students are learning skills and strategies to help them understand the meanings of interesting words in the texts they are reading! We used the Flocabulary website to help us learn strategies in a fun way! The students learned the definitions for the words: attractive, captivity, carefree, coax, desire, frantic, plead, release, tragic and vast from the video attached to the link above! Students: By Friday--please post a comment below informing your classmates of an interesting word you've learned from a book you are reading this week! Use the following format: Book Title Word Sentence from the text Meaning/Definition Use the link to practice more decimal multiplication! Remember to count the decimal places to write the answer correctly. Once you've mastered multiplying decimals, take a peek around the site- there are many more great games to play!http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-5/multiply-two-decimals-using-grids Today, students discovered Archimedes theory of density! Students spent time discovering what objects, based on mass and volume, would sink and float in water! They used a Glencoe 8th grade math virtual lab to compile their lab results and did a GREAT job! Students, try to find out some more items that are more or less dense than water or each other and list your results in the comment section! Happy experimenting! http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078741858/365081/CT01.html This week, students are learning about the importance of Non-Fiction Text Features. They have been reading non-fiction texts all week while participating in book scavenger hunts, read alouds, and so much more! The website Ink Think Tank is a great resource for students to utilize in order to become more familiar with non-fiction texts and their features. Our goal: for students to find the FUN in learning! I checked out "Courage Has No Color" because it goes along with upcoming Black History Month! What books have you previewed or listened to after visiting the Ink Think Tank website? I'd love to hear some of your faves! As students worked through their West Region hands-on learning rotations they learned more about the importance of the US Mint. In case you weren't sure, a mint is a factory where coins are made. The US Mint is located in Denver, Colorado! Click on the button below to learn more about the US Mint and have a chance to make your very own coin. Students, leave a response below to describe your FAVORITE part of the West Region Rotations! Each year as Christmas approaches I pull out one of my favorite winter-time books: Brave Irene by Shrek author William Steig. This is a beautiful story of courage, perseverance and the power of helping those we love! In class, we will be reviewing the reading skills we have learned thus far including: Story Elements, Character, Vocabulary, Thick Questioning, Summarizing and many more! Click the button below to listen to Al Gore read aloud the amazing story of Brave Irene. $5 gift exchange, count us OUT! For the past 3 years, the 4th grade classes at White Oak Elementary have decided to opt out of a small gift exchange and have donated money to help a family in need enjoy their Christmas instead! This year students donated enough money to purchase gifts, food, clothing, etc. for a family of 5! The students and teachers travelled to Wal-Mart to purchase the gifts. It truly put all of us int the Christmas spirit :) As the holidays drew near I got a song stuck in my head...that's right, The 12 Days of Christmas! In the past, I had witnessed other teachers showering their students with 12 small gifts those last 12 days of school before break, but had never joined that tradition myself. Then, it hit me! I decided that instead of providing gifts for my students I would encourage my students to provide the FREE gift of joy to those around them. Thus 12 days of small, simple and effective service projects! 4th graders: Which was your favorite service project? Leave a comment below! |
AuthorAndie Worsley is a wife to Brett, an auntie to Maaryn, a sister to Brianne, a daughter to Lois and Brian, a lover of music and nature, and above all else an educator to amazing 4th graders! Archives
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