November 3-7, 2008

Hi, students!! I hope you all had fun with our computer classroom on Friday. You all were introduced to several website resources to help you succeed in Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Physical Science. You learned how to put together a powerpoint and email these to your teachers.Please check our earlier blogs for access to these and other sites. This upcoming week we're planning to take the DAT tests. These are important and students you are encouraged to try your best. We'll have a change in schedule due to testing. We'll be working on projects in most classes after testing is completed.
For ELA, we'll be working on a "Parts of Speech" collage for the fall. Each students will be provided poster and cut outs to label a "fall tree" with examples of parts of speech from the newspaper. First. students will read aloud from the newspaper and then choose which article they want to use to look for their examples.
For GA Studies, students will be making a poster to demonstrate the many effects of the French and Indian War. We have been studying this this week, and we'll continue to examine how this conflict caused the American Revolution and Georgia's "Call for Independence". Please reference your textbook in Chapter 5 and later Chapter 6.
We're looking forward to a great week!! See you then!!
Ms. Holden

FUN SITES:
http://www.quia.com/
http://www.quia.com/shared/eng/
http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone.htm
http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/gameslangarts/Online_Language_Arts_Games.htm
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_lang.htm

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/
http://www.gamequarium.com/languagearts.htm

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/lang-arts.html
http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html

More SITES to PREVIEW:

Georgia Studies SITES:
Thanksgiving
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/thanksgiving/
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/holidays/a/thanksgiving.htm
http://americanhistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=americanhistory&cdn=education&tm=91&f=10&su=p897.3.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.memory.loc.gov/learn/features/thanksgiving/timeline/1541.html
http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html#

American Revolution and Georgia
http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghistar.html

INTRO TO AMERICAN REVOLUTION VIDEO http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=6BDD8C86-FF70-4C14-99AC-51CDD9B7FF88

AFRICANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY:
CRISPUS ATTUCKS-BOSTON MASSACRE
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p24.html

PETER SALEM-BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
http://www.celebrateboston.com/biographies/patriots/salempeter.htm

Prince Whipple-
http://cghs.dadeschools.net/african-american/precivil/whipple.htm
From royalty to being a slave...read this interesting story!


ELA SITES:
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl-printables-worksheets.html
http://www.tooter4kids.com/classroom/super_savers.htm

WRITING and GRAMMAR
http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/u/paressay07.htm