JUNE: WE are so excited to be heading for summer soon, but sad because we have built quite the close family here over the past ten months... 51-52FI have had SO many wonderful experiences, working together and supporting each other. It has been a very memorable year! WE hope that students come back next year to chat with us and keep us updated on their many learning adventures at TJS!
Looking at our last month in ENGLISH:
POETRY Unit is coming to a close, and students did a wonderful rendition of an amazing Goodbye poem-song for Mrs Benedetti, which she thoroughly appreciated! Poetry Magazines will be done shortly, and students will be working on a personal Inquiry Project of their choice! WE are also working on on-going grammar and vocabulary improvement work, which is helpful for reading-writing and oral skills.
Students can also try these Language sites at home:
http://www.abcya.com/fifth_grade_computers.htm#letters-cat
Parts of Sentence
Website with examples of sentences, parts of a sentence, and much more.
http://chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/bakemynoodle01a.htm
http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073123587/student_view0/chapter6/parts_of_speech_exercise.html
Complex Sentences
http://esl.about.com/od/esl-worksheets/a/Complex-Sentence-Worksheet.htm
Word Study and Grammar Games
- Story Starters
- Spelling City
- Word Sort
- Word Central
- Arcade Town
- Sheppard Software
- Clean Up Your Grammar
- BiteSize Writing
- Edu Place Language
- Word Tamer
- Wild West English
- Play Games Vocabulary
- Editing Practice
- Revision Practice
- BiteSize Reading/Writing/Spelling/Grammar
Biography Resources
Bio Cube
Persuasive Writing Resources
Persuasion Map
Persuasive Writing Topics
Persuasive Topics 2
*Writing Goals - Students are writing comic strips, paragraphs, short story endings & poems! Check out these websites for language activities:
- Character Scrapbook
- Seussville
- My Reading Tools
- Books Should Be Free
- Story Online
- Giggle Poetry
- Share What You Are Reading
- Professor Garfield
- Fun Brain Reading
- Book Adventure
*Math - Students will be working on PROBABILITY in JUNE. You can encourage your child to REVIEW math journal notes at home, redo a question and explain it to you, try some math websites. Work on DREAMBOX at home https://play.dreambox.com/login/z3vf/tigerjsps.
**Some fun websites for mathematical & logical problem solving ideas, games, etc.
http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games
https://www.funbrain.com/math-zone
http://www.softschools.com/math/division/long_division/
https://plus.maths.org/content/Puzzle
http://wild.maths.org/
Caribou Math Contest: https://www.cariboutests.com/