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Butterflies (and Test Prep, Too)!

During our focus on non-fiction texts this week in getting prepared for upcoming state tests in literacy and science, our class used butterflies as the theme – using the book Endangered Butterflies, by Bobbie Kalman as part of our shared reading. Today, students became the test “makers” as they partnered up to read selections from [...]

Calling All 4th Grade Test Prep Detectives!

Show your evidence!..that you are the BEST test takers EVER! Here are websites for you to use to practice those “Test Prep Detective” skills so that you’ll be all ready to ace those upcoming state tests! ELA: Kids Detective Lab Eye Spy – every good detective needs to brush up on those visual inference skills! [...]

Encounter! Native Americans Meet the European Explorers

To help 4th graders get a broader sense of the early Americas beyond our previous study of the Iroquois and Algonquians of the Eastern Woodlands area, here are some quick links about the Aztecs, Incas and Pueblos Nations. (Next up: website links for the European Explorers…there are more beyond Christopher Columbus!) KidsPast.com (Aztecs, Incas, and [...]

Interactive Websites: Eastern Woodlands Indian Cultures

Build your own (online) longhouse! Make your own (virtual) wampum!

Building Boxes: A Great Website for Thinking “Inside” the Box!

Check out this fun, interactive website from National Council for Teachers of Math.

Websites for Iroquois research

http://nativeamericans.mrdonn.org/northeast/iroquois/index.html http://bigorrin.org/iroquois_kids.htm http://www.crystalinks.com/iroquois.html http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/IroquoisVillage/ http://www.mhschool.com/ss/ca/images/img_g5u1_quiz_map_iroquois.jpg Mohawk: http://www.mohawknation.org/ Oneida: http://www.oneidaindiannation.com/ Cayuga: http://www.sctribe.com/ Onondaga: http://www.onondaganation.org/ Seneca: http://www.sni.org/ (not originally a member nation) Tuscarora: http://www.southernbandtuscarora.com/ NEWLY ADDED: http://www.iroquoisdemocracy.pdx.edu/html/activity4.htm/

Voicethread Poetry

Hey 4th Graders, It’s poetry time! Today we’re going to: log in to http://Voicethread.com with the email address ps130fourth@gmail.com, password: _________ (we’ll tell you in class) add an image (picture) we find on the Internet (try http://images.google.com, and record ourselves reading poems fluently and with expression! Here are a few images to help you add [...]