Practice Your Math Facts

FIRST, CLICK THIS LINK TO LOOK UP YOUR PIN #: 4th Grade XtraMath PINs

https://xtramath.org/signin/classroom

Mr. Rook's Classroom Code: FJXLG7G3

Ms. Phoenix's Classroom Code: DMZHBXTB

Adverbs - Spelling City - Google Drive Challenge

Before we get started, please open your email.

Click on the email from me regarding joining Google Classroom.

Click Join
You will see that I've posted an Assignment for you.  However, please work on the games on the 4th Grade Technology Blog and then you may come back to this Assignment.

Practice adverbs by playing all 4 games listed below.

Adverbs often end in -ly.  Remember that an adverb describes a verb or an adjective and answers one of these questions: How?  How often?  When?  Where?

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/adverb/quiz200.html

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/adverb_trail/index.html

http://www.ezschool.com/Grade4/English/Adverbs/game1.html - CLICK ON THE BOX WITH THE MONKEY TO LOAD THE GAME!

http://www.quia.com/rr/62022.html

Login to Spelling City to practice for your spelling test tomorrow: www.spellingcity.com
Usernames: last name followed by first initial followed by hts
Password: titans

Go back to your email in order to begin the Google Drive Challenge that I assigned in Google Classroom. 

12 Days of Christmas Quilts & Christmas Brain Exercise Games

First, everyone will finish their 12 Days of Christmas Quilt in Pixie.  Please open your quilt and confirm with me that you are finished before moving on.

http://www.abcya.com/ball_ornaments_puzzle.htm

http://www.akidsheart.com/math/mathgames/untie.swf

http://hoodamath.com/games/sugarsugarxmasspecial.html

http://www.uptoten.com/kids/kidsgames-mixedbag-santaclaustrip.html

http://www.multiplication.com/games/play/holiday-fun

CHOOSE LEVEL 0-9

XtraMath and Mathletics

https://xtramath.org/signin/student

www.mathletics.com

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES:

INCREASING PATTERNS
DECREASING PATTERNS
PROBLEMS: ADD AND SUBTRACT

Wordly Wise Practice - Lesson 5

http://quizlet.com/32394585/wordly-wise-lesson-5-flash-cards/

Test your knowledge of book reports and the required parts of a book report.
Begin by reading all 9 flash cards.  THEN, YOU MUST PLAY ALL OF THE GAMES EXCEPT SPELLER (4 GAMES)

http://quizlet.com/62211584/flashcards

Destination Impossible - Following Instructions Game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english/games

SCROLL DOWN & CHOOSE DESTINATION IMPOSSIBLE

Hour of Code Week!

Before we start coding today, click on this link: http://b.socrative.com/login/student/ to vote for your favorite Christmas song.  The classroom number is:  aaaaaa

https://holidays.madewithcode.com/project/lights



CHOOSE ONE OF THE BEGINNER PROJECTS

https://www.madewithcode.com/projects

http://studio.code.org/hoc/1

http://studio.code.org/s/frozen/stage/1/puzzle/1

Choose Puppy Adventure, Candy Quest or Trailblazer

http://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/ 

Learn 10 More Coding Steps

http://studio.code.org/s/playlab/stage/1/puzzle/1 

Learn Some Java Script

http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-maven

Practice Your Math Facts

https://xtramath.org/signin/student

12 Days of Christmas

Combining math and Christmas to prepare for the Lower School Assembly.

You may use the calculator on the computer to add the total number of gifts.

You Choose...

You may choose from the following today:

Scratch
Username: hts followed by your initials (ex. htsmk, htstb, htsec, etc)
Password: titans
Accounts: Emmett, Misha, Thomas B., Keegan, Matt, Ronan, Anna, Grace, Bizzy, Caroline, Vanessa, Nick, and Brycen (htsbrycen)

Code with Elsa from Frozen

Mathletics - Live Mathletics ONLY during last 15 minutes of class

Greg Tang Math Kakooma

Typing Club

Raz-Kids  (see me if you need your password)

Candy Quest

Wordly Wise Practice & Being Verbs

Wordly Wise - Lesson 4

http://quizlet.com/59371047/wordly-wise-lesson-4-flash-cards/

Match the subject and the verb for 'to be'

http://www.arcademics.com/games/viper/viper.html

A quiz involving verbs (is, are) (was, were):

http://www.softschools.com/quiz_time/language_arts/grammar/theme15.html

Present tense of the verb 'to be"

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-games/present-simple-verb-be

If you finish before the end of class, you may work on either Typing Club  or Raz-Kids.

Mathletics!

Today, everyone will login to Mathletics.  You must work on math Activities for the first 30 minutes of class.  During the last 15 minutes, you may change your Avatar and/or play Live Mathletics.  During Live Mathletics, you must play on Level 3.

www.mathletics.com

Wordly Wise Practice & Subject & Predicate Games

First, everyone will work with Quizlet to practice ALL of your vocabulary words from Wordly Wise's Lessons 1, 2 and 3.  There are a total of 45 words in this word list.  Click on the link below to get started.

http://quizlet.com/cgmiller65/folders/wordly-wise-lessons-1-2-3/flashcards


Practice Compound Subject & Compound Predicate

http://www.quia.com/pop/135781.html?AP_rand=570399294

Compound Predicate (or, Verb)

http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/57.asp

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7224

http://www.cccs.k12.in.us/userfiles/10/Subject%20and%20Predicate.swf

Finish Typing S.E.R.C. Reports & Subjects and Predicates

Login to Google Drive and open your S.E.R.C. Report.  Please edit your report according to your teacher's comments.  When you are finished, watch this video about subjects and predicates. Then, click on the links to play the games below.

Practice compound subjects and compound predicates:

http://www.quia.com/pop/135781.html?AP_rand=570399294

Compound subject or compound predicate (compound verb)?

http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/57.asp

S.E.R.C.

Today, everyone will begin to type your S.E.R.C. reports in Google Drive.  Your language arts teacher and I will be looking for perfect spelling and grammar in this report.

If there is extra time during class today, you may get your ipad and continue to work on your Book Creator project.

Book Creator App for S.E.R.C. Books

Today, you will start creating a book about your field trip to S.E.R.C.  You must include the following in your book:

1. Everyone must create their book using the Square template (not portrait or landscape)
2. Book Title (such as 4th Grade Goes to S.E.R.C.)
3. Author's name (your name)
4. Date of your trip (October 22, 2014)
5. 2 favorite things about S.E.R.C. and the reason WHY these were your favorite things
6. 3 facts that you learned at S.E.R.C.
7. Search for a map of the Chesapeake Bay using Safari, save the image to your camera roll and include this map in your book.
8. Search for one image related to one of the facts you learned at S.E.R.C.  (for example: secchi disk, blue crab, oyster, plankton, etc.)

Saving Your Book
Tap "My Books" in the upper left corner.  Then tap the inspector button (i) in order to change the Title of your book and to change the Author's name.

S.E.R.C. Information & Spelling Practice

First, everyone will complete the worksheet that I will pass out to you.  Hand write your responses in pencil.  During our next Technology class, we will use the iPads and everyone will create a book, using the Book Creator app, about their trip to S.E.R.C.  Your book must include all of the information on this worksheet as well as photos from the trip, a map of the Chesapeake Bay and a few other items we will discuss.

When you are finished with the worksheet, please hand it in and then practice this week's spelling pattern (short "u") by playing the spelling games below.

Word Builder

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordbuilder/index.html?grade=4&unit=7

Word Sort

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordsort/index.html?grade=4&unit=7

Adapted Mind - Math Practice

Everyone will login to Adapted Mind and take the pre-test.  Each student has their own username and password which you will need to begin the pre-test. After the pre-test, you will practice some of the math lessons on AdaptedMind.com.

Test Prep - Wordly Wise - Lesson 2

Click on the link below and complete these six (6) activities to help you study for your Wordly Wise test tomorrow:
1. Cards: Read/listen to all 15 flashcards (the word and the definition)
2. Learn: Read the definition and then type the word that matches the definition.
3. Speller: Listen to the word spoken and then type that word in the box provided.
4. Test: Answer the questions (matching, multiple choice and true/false).  FIRST, YOU MUST CHOOSE THE TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU WANT & THEN CLICK "CREATE A NEW TEST"
5. Scatter: Drag the word onto the corresponding definition to make it disappear.
6. Race: Delete the scrolling words by typing in their corresponding term and pressing ENTER.

http://quizlet.com/28795692/wordly-wise-lesson-2-flash-cards/

If you finish everything on Quizlet, practice Direct Objects with these 2 games below:

Choose the Direct Object

http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/53.asp

Direct Objects Quiz:

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/direct_objects/quiz546.html

More Computer Programming Today

Open Scratch then Click Create to Get Started

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Do you remember that I created Scratch accounts for some of you a few weeks ago?  This account allows you to save your projects and keep working on them.  The login information is:

Username: hts followed by your initials (ex. htsmk, htstb, htsec, etc)

Password: Everyone's password is titans

Accounts: Emmett, Misha, Thomas B., Keegan, Matt, Ronan, Anna, Grace, Bizzy, Caroline, Vanessa, Nick, and Brycen (htsbrycen).

Try A New Program Today!

http://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/puzzle

Language Arts/Tech Class

Today, those that haven't finished their Goals project, will finish that first.  Then, everyone will work on the following:

Practice Punctuation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/punctuation/play/

Take the quiz:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/quiz/q25067687

Grade 4 Punctuation Quiz

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/punctuation/quiz386.html

Choice Time:

Free Rice

Typing Club

Raz-Kids

All About You

4^th Grade has been talking about biographies and personal narratives in Language Arts. Today, everyone will work on a project that will be ALL ABOUT YOU.

You will answer the following questions:

·         What are your goals for 4th grade?

·         What achievements (accomplishments or successes) are you proud of so far in your life?

·         What are you working hard to improve upon?

·         How do you want to be remembered by the end of 8th Grade?

Below is an example of one that I wrote:

Grammar Today

Homophones

http://www.funbrain.com/whichword/index.html

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary-games/homophones-games/homophones-game.html

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary-games/homophones-games/homophones-word-o-rama.html

Subject and Predicate

http://www.quia.com/rr/36764.html

Identify the Simple Subject or the Predicate

http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html

Practice with the vocabulary from By the Shores of Silver Lake

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr06/ewordgame/index.html?grade=4&theme=1&selection=4

Try your hand at the Crossword Puzzle

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/crossword/index.html?grade=4&unit=2