Look up to see the New Year's Eve Comet...and after

It's being called the New Year's Eve Comet, but it will continue to brighten nightly afterward.

Here's a link to USA Today's description

Enjoy your New Year!

See you next year...LITERALLY.

Love That Dog

Don't you just Love that book?

Here's all of the poems from the book - enjoy! :)


William Carlos Williams reading The Red Wheelbarrow


Robert Frost reading his own poem

The Tiger - William Blake

Valerie Worth
Other Valerie Worth poems

The Pasture SONG
Limericks for kids

You can buy BOTH books for a little over $10!


How do you think you'll do on this test?






Sharon Creech's biography (If you write to Sharon Creech and send her a S.A.S.E.-self addressed stamped envelope-she will send you a letter back) :)
Listen to Sharon Creech Read from Love That Dog


Walter Dean Myers video interview

Explore and Create Poetry

• Write a Theme Poem
• Write a Compare and Contrast Poem online!
• Poetry Corner
• Write your own Acrostic Poem
• Join Fern's Poetry Club
• Create your own poem with the Poetry Machine! :)
• Use the Rhyming Dictionary
• Magnetic Poetry: Click and Create
• Read/Write your own Concrete Poem
• Read/Write a Descriptive Poem
• Read & Write a Personification Poem
• Read/Write a Poem about a Community

• Poetry Terms
• Poetry Terms Game
• Poetry Terms and Quiz

Montgolfier Brothers, Ornithopters, & More!

• Ornithopter
• Ornithopter pt 2
• Princeton, Montgolfier
• Montgolfier YouTube video
• Lighter than Air
• Montgolfiers Space.com
• Montgolfier BrothersScholastic Wright Brothers

• Wright Brothers biography - kids
• Wright Brothers
• Wright Brothers national park
• History.com-Wright brothers
• Last survivor dies at 92 (8/2014)
• History.com -Hindenburg - 9 surprising facts
• Hindenburg - Smithsonian: The Untold Story
• Hindenburg - Britannica for kids
• The end of airships
• Hindenburg-Encyclopedia/kids
• History-Hindenburg (Air Ship)

Molly's Pilgrim

Vocabulary


Kristallnacht, "The Night of the Broken Glass"

Movie

Congratulations on finishing Charlotte's Web!

Salutations! I sure hope you enjoyed the reading experience in addition to enjoying the story.




Some Charlotte's Web activities


Make your own Charlotte's Web comic

Unit 2; Week 3 - Vote!

Unit 2, Week 3 Spelling, vocabulary, skills and strategies

Unit 2, Week 3 practice sheets - print outs

Vote! Vocabulary Quizlet

QAR graphic organizer

Plural nouns: -s or -es Print outs

Collective nouns - printable



Presidential Trading Cards

Meet The Candidates

Electoral College (270 Wins)



November's Supermoon

















Thank you for contributing candy to the students; they were very excited.




Super Moon news

Unit 2, Week1

Unit 2; Week 1 spelling, vocabulary, and activities Folktales from around the world

The Roadrunner's Dance-scroll to bottom to read, print and color.
The Gingerbread Man
Deltona is Going Batty - Bat Day in Deltona
Alligator Crossing the Street in Doral

Nouns with abstract nouns game
I'm Talkin' Big poem
Scroll to end and print to write your own "I'm Talkin'_____" poem
Synonym and Antonym game
Writing activity

Korean Trickster Tale - The Ungrateful Tiger

Context Clues Comic
Context Clues video
Read, Baloney (Henry P.) by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith online using CONTEXT CLUES!

Inferences with textual evidence
Inferences Video-Partly Cloudy

Short Vowel Song Cartoon

Science-Matter
Phases of Matter
Phases if matter
Matter video
Matter video lesson

Thank you to all who contributed to the International Feast!

Your contributions made the class experience exceptional! The students and teachers enjoyed learning about each other's cultures. Thank you again for sharing.

Nonfiction, Biographies, Inventions and Inventors 

6 Steps to Notetaking - YouTube
Context Clues and Vocabulary Meaning comic

School House Rock-Conjunction, Junction
Cliff Hanger-sheep in a Ship


Sequence Printable

SHR video - Mr. Morton - Subjects and Predicates
Mr. Morton - new version
Subject/Predicate song
Subjects and Predicates worksheet
Single to compound subjects

Metaphors
WatchKnowLearn -metaphores
Guardians of the Galaxy metaphor clip

Formal v. Informal Writing
Write Tracks
Writing Process video
Writing Process slide show
Writing IDEAS-Dav Pilkey, The Paperboy Read aloud

SHR Multiplication Series! :) You WILL Learn!
Comma, place value song

Kidz World - Hispanic Heritage

Two Vowels Go Walking video/song
Cliff Hanger, Giant Snail
Electric Co. ai song
British Mr. Thornton-Long /a/

Vowel Boot Camp
Silent e video/song
Electric Company Haunted House Silent E
James Iglehart sings Silent e
Silhouette Silent e
Super E!
Bossy E
Magic E
Bazillions Silent E

Explorers
Lumberjack Polka

Happy Hurricane Days! :)

Remember:

Hurricane Preparedness not Scaredness! :)


Use your hurricane days to get even more educated! You can read, relax, and write in your
Hurricane Matthew journal.

Ideas for your Hurricane Matthew journal:

• Write about how you and your family prepared. :)
• Illustrate one or more of the steps you took to prepare.
• Write about the activities your family does when school is closed.
• Enjoy your time with your family and write about your favorite memory.

Events this weekend...

Free National Park Entrance, Saturday, September 24th.
National Public Lands Day

September in the Field South Dade Birding - Saturday, September 24, 7:30am Raul Urgelles will lead the carpool, meet at 7:30 a.m. Everglades National Park Matheson Hammock Park & Bird Walk, Sunday, September 25, 7:30am John Boyd will lead birders through Mattheson Hammock. The group meets in the parking area on the left at 7:30am. Return is at approximately 11:00am. No fee.

Happy First Day of Autumn!

Autumnal Equinox


Unit 1 Week 4: Mary Anderson's Invention
Unit 1, Week 4

Mary Anderson-Inventor
Stephanie Kwolek - Inventor
Elijah McCoy - Inventor
Elijah McCoy Invention Video/Poem
Elijah McCoy Animation

Gary Soto
Judy Baca


Gary Soto
Gary Soto's Biography | Scholastic.com
Gary The Dreamer: QUIZLET Flash cards
Judy Baca

Constitution Day

The Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787

Interactive Constitution

The Constitution - typed

The Constitution Center Website

Our Documents.gov

School House Rock - "We The People" -The Preamble

I'm Just a Bill


http://www.historyforkids.net/america-worksheets.html

It was nice seeing all of you at Open House. Thank you for coming.

Tonight is Open House. I hope to see you POP into Ms. King's room! :)

It was nice seeing all of you at Open House. Thank you for coming.

Welcome to our class blog. Go Green 1617!

Sentences, Fragments, Subjects, Predicates, Short Vowels, Long Vowels, Silent E, Synonyms, and more...

Click on the links for learning
Sentences and Fragments:
How quickly can you pick the sentences and fragments? :)
Sentences and Fragments - The alien is hungry.
Subject and Predicate song - The Grammarheads

Silent E:
Silent E - Tom Lehrer (One of my favorites)
Manny's Prankster Cam - Silent E
Bossy E
Silent E - The Bazillions
Silent E - Vampire

Short and Long Vowels:
Vowel Boot Camp - i
Vowel Boot Camp - a

Synonyms:
Synonym Symphony
Sing your synonyms - Sesame Street
Synonym Sam's Lab

Subjects and Predicates:
Mr. Morton - School House Rock (SHR)
Twinkle Trails - Subjects and Predicates
Subjects and Predicates- school video
Subjects and Predicates 3rd grade Cat
Higher level

Compound Words:
Compound Words song by Melissa
Learning Game - Compound Words
vids4kids

Trickster Tiger story - audio
Trickster Tiger - Korean Folktale - video