Thursday, December 20, 2007

Therapy Dogs Help Soldiers Cut Stress


Take a look at this site. You will be doing a project about service animals in Theme 4, and this site gives lots of good links.








Thursday, December 13, 2007

Would You Like to Use PhotoStory at Home?


Here's the site. Check it out. You may need to have Windows xp.


This siste also tells about another 5th grade class that did a project just like ours!

Monday, December 10, 2007

Short Films



American History.


Who interests you?

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Prefixes Suffixes Roots


Try this site to help

you find words for

your homework.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Biography





It will be interesting to have a variety of timelines that share the lives of past Americans. Notice how this timeline is vertical. Van Gough was a famous painter from France, one of my favorite.


Share one fact that most interests you about the person you are reading about in your book.






Sunday, December 2, 2007

Idioms


An idiom is a phrase that has a meaning different from the meaning of the individual words. For example, "It's raining cats and dogs." This phrase has nothing to do with cats and dogs. It simply means that it is raining very hard.
Try this website to find more.

What are some idioms that your family uses? Write them in the comments.