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.