November 24-25

Thanksgiving Turkey Funny Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=501sNcmrwGQ

English Language Arts
Monday and Tuesday=Review of grammar vocabulary and Preview Writing Assessment Practice coming up after Thanksgiving Holiday!!

Have a safe holiday!! :)





Writing Websites:

Website	URL
'Topics for writing	http://www.thewritesource.com/topics.htm
Ideas for writing from the news	http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/
Online Dictionaries	http://www.surfnetkids.com/online_dictionaries.htm
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab	http://www.owl.english.purdue.edu/
"ReadWriteThink	http://www.readwritethink.org/
Write Source	http://www.thewritesource.com/
The Writing Site	http://www.thewritingsite.org/

Georgia Powerpoint Link to Explaining the 8th grade Writing Assessment
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ci_testing.aspx?PageReq=CITestingWA8
Georgia Anchor Papers and Last Year's Writing Prompt
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/DMGetDocument.aspx/Grade%208%20Writing%20Sample%20Papers%202008.pdf?p=6CC6799F8C1371F60566D158212EE78EC8F921EA7A4AA6127D342AB5CEBBE356&Type=D

Breaking News English
www.breakingnewsenglish.coml

Georgia Studies:
Chapter Five Review "Activities on Monday and Tuesday

British Taxes Game
http://www.quia.com/hm/126618.html


Other fun sites!! BE AN EDHEAD!!
Learn about EARTHQUAKES closer to home...NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE
http://www.usgs.gov/

READ READ READ....read about presidents and other countries at National Geographic
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Learning about SCIENCE.....READING is important..so do it..Have FUN!! Be Curious!!
http://www.chem4kids.com/files/atom_intro.html
http://www.tryscience.org/experiments/experiments_begin.html?electrolysis
http://www.tryscience.org/experiments/experiments_begin.html?pennythoughts
http://www.edheads.org/activities/crash_scene/
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/wattsthat_junior/index.html
http://education.jlab.org/indexpages/elementgames.php
http://www.physics4kids.com/map.html
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/plants_main.html

More fun learning links!
http://www.middleweb.com/mw/aaHotLinks.html
http://www.arcamax.com/fictions