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.

How to find a good puppy.

video

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!

Short Films

Famous Moments in Early

American History.

Who interests you?

Prefixes Suffixes Roots

Try this site to help

you find words for

your homework.

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.

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.

The War with Grandpa

Just wondering if any of you are enjoying the book. Let me know what you like about it, maybe a favorite part. Have you noticed anything that might be connected to the Revolutionary War?

Do any of you have a grandparent living with you? If so, what are your feelings about it?

Rate the book---1 to 5 stars ***** (5 is best)

Capuchin Monkeys

Cute picutures

We will be learning more about them in Theme 4.

CSUC Theater Tour

I know you all enjoyed seeing what happens backstage and "behind the scenes." Share your comments with our hosts. What did you like--or what were some things that interested you? How many of you would be interested in stage production, either on stage or backstage? Share.

CSUC Science Lab

How did all of you enjoy the hands-on placte tectonics lab yesterday? It was impressive to see all of you looking like real scientists with your lab coats and protective eye goggles. Some of you might be interested in making science your career someday. What do you think?

Let's let our instructors know what you especially enjoyed about your experience yesterday. Write your comments and I will make a special request that they visit this page to view your feedback.

Figurative Language

Try this figurative language site.

Try some ideas on your own and share!

Space Shuttle Disasters

Challenger Space Shuttle

1986

Columbia Space Shuttle

2003

Do you think space travel is important? Is it

worth the lives of these astronauts? Are the

risks worth the benefits? Tell me what you

think . . .

The Fear Place

Take a look at these videos of rock climbers. Is this something that would interest you?

Lover's Leap

El Capitan: Yosemite Valley

Petzl Rocktrip

rock climbing

Mae Jemison: Space Scientist

Learn more about Mae Jemison.

Listen to her radio interview.

Read her interview with kids.

Science: Fizz Quiz Part 1

We will be investigating three materials.

Learn a little about them. Write a comment that shares what you discover.

sodium chloride

citric acid

baking soda

Extreme Nature Project

This is a project that you can work on at home, too. It will give you more time at school to get your PowerPoint made.

Extreme Nature

I want to know how your notetaking is coming along. Write a comment that lists at least two headings that you are using. Include a fact that particularly interests you.

Let me know if you have any questions. Good luck.

Lassen Park Field Trip

Let's find out information about our upcoming field trip to Lassen Park and our hike into Bumpass Hell.

Kids' Sites

Explore some of these sites----write a comment to tell me which one you like :)

http://www.cuesd.tehama.k12.ca.us/woodson/lucero.htm

Fraction Number Line

Try this site to see a variety of different number lines:

http://www.visualfractions.com/EnterFraction.html

San Andreas Fault

Earthquake Terror

Vocabulary website
http://www.smbsd.org/uploaded/reading/files/Fifth_Grade/vocab_w_pix_th_1_earthquake_terror.pdf

Vocabulary website for all stories you read this year--wow!!
(Look for Fifth Grade)
http://www.smbsd.org/page.cfm?p=1445

Earthquake Site

The first story we read in Theme 1, Nature's Fury, is called "Earthquake Terror." A brother and sister experience an earthquake while hiking in the forest. Have any of you experienced an earthquake?

Take a look at this great site to view earthquakes happening in California and Nevada.

How many have happened today?
How many happened yesterday?
How many happend last week?

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

Links

Flickr

Photostory

Google Images

Workshops Infozone

Vocabulary Photos

Cute Animals

Theme 1 "Earthquake Terror" Vocabulary

frantic

ominous

stifling

isolated

drought

debris

devastation

impact

jolt

shuddering

susceptible

undulating

fault

equator

Theme 1 Vocabulary "Earthquake Terror"

Tell me about a time that you felt frantic.

More of China

China Trip

Thought I would share a few photos.

Terra Cotta Army

200BC, Shang dynasty

Xian

Class Photos

Hey, I'm just learning so I'm trying a variety of different ways to post information. Here's a try of putting up some pictures from last year's field trips.

Chico State Science Lab Field Trip May 2007

Linking to specific pages

I can link to my own blog pages by specific pages.

Theme Projects--5th Grade

Take a look at these upcoming theme projects:

theme 1
theme 2
theme 3
theme 4
theme 5
theme 6

Here's a link back to my school webpage.
Here's a link back to my blog.

Fist Time

Here's the beginning of a new classroom adventure. We will share student ideas, work, and a variety of classroom experiences for the upcoming school year.

Here's a link to my classroom webpage.