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D-Day Beaches...Our Visit June 21, 2009

Make a Smilebox slideshow

A Survey on Communication in XL ---grade 6

Please take the survey on communication by Friday.http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DHP8L53

The year is winding down, the kids are making their books, and a final smilebox is in order.

http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d7a45324e44557a4e44513d0d0a&blogview=true

Renaissance

Check these sites for help with projects. LIterature helps may be found here.

Here are some links to history via Mr. Donn. Conquers took empires away from native or indigenous groups.  Many empires were conquered during the history of the renessaince.

Writing Summaries...try this.

Learn about summaries...http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=TRG2603what is good and not so good.

 

This is another approach to summary writing. Open the Download Summary writing I have developed.

Pronouns...great fun; do you agree?

Yuperdoodle...great way to check on pronoun knowledge...and to practice. Try one of the games

Literary Review...Fast Paced Game

Try several levels as you are  reviewing in reading and all elements of literature.

It's the MATHS..................................yup-er-doodle!

Let's think about decimals with some new  videos...first for percents and fractions and decimals and then one  to teach us slope and intercept; our acuity students learned about Lamar Queen and his raps, so check out slope. BBC does it again...graphs, rounding numbersDownload Rounding, Download Algebra I, and Download Algebra I can all be located on this site.

How are cats and  dogs related to  Download MATH LESSON- Adding and Subtracting Integers...ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH!

Mr. Duey is here to teach us about fractions...:)

It is a division lesson... easy review with a decimal thrown in to make it interesting... this is another approach.. rap on, math-e-ma-tics.  and this extends it and uses decimals in two places including the divisor and the number that is being divided.

And of course...there is the inverse of division...that is multiplication with decimals... check it out.

Once in a while, like whenever you factor or work with fractions, it helps to know prime numbers. We can fiddle around with the Sieve of Eratosthenes ...check it out.

 

Down rightDeuy-fied fractions... see them here...and listen as well.

Ratio and Proportion

Time to review some ration and  proportion as well as ratio  and both ; You will find volume and area and measurement at this link. Math Journeys and Mr. Sato's Class will also provide review.

math...ratios, perportions, and probability.

Okey-dokey... time to review those ratio situations and a bit of probability. Check risk, graphs, and such  out.  Using the BBC learning games site is a way to tackle math (numbers) and language arts (words). Try it.

math...aka maths...geometry, measurement, nets, area, volume

Geometry, measurement, nets, area, volume can be practiced on this site; here are three approaches in one. Try it.  Power points can help review concepts. 

Here are a few tries at surface area and volume.

 

 

 These nets are an interesting way to spatially check out solids.

Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ...imagine a calculator... crazy .

Shakespeare..MacBeth

The Folger is a tremedous resource. This  link leads you to a slew of power points that discuss the Scottish Play and the reasons for never uttering its true title... shhhhhhhh   Macbeth.James the First of England was from Scotland, and he asked Shakespeare to write a play that honored his relations... Banquo... anddddddddddddd...included things he was fascinated with, like the occult...and witches.Download Halloween

Oh, yeah...learn these words: porter, saga, hurly-burly, hallow, patron, thane, cauldron, heath, Vikings, woe, and apparitions.

Math Review

Please tackle the on-line video first. Do not think,"I don't need this. " If you did not need it, I would not have you back here.   Every area is covered, video...quizzes, worksheets... so we will start twith the task I assign, go to video and then to the quiz situation. If you think you need more, we can add worksheets.    D Bova

Review Grammar and Punctuation

It is  importatn that students review for testing before we are actually face to face with it. We know so much. let's just brush up on some of what we do know.

    Let's start with this site. Please keep your own set of scores.  Create a file in your documents and record how you did on each particular grammar element. These are 6th grade level skills that are up first. Do not be afraid to tackle these all the way to grade twelve. Want pass plus. Then  aim to do  all of these.

Cells...the Basic Unit of Life!

Don't "cell" yourself short...know your cells...and every other cell you come upon on your journey through this site...http://www.cellsalive.com/. Open it up and poke around. Take notes because we expect you to share what you think is really interesting.

Plant or animal...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! This will help you!http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm

Snaps! I don;t know how I forgot about the BIOLOGY4Kids site. Use this site to review plant and animal and cell parts. Now...take the quiz...and then work on the organelle quiz. Of course, it is off to the next section when you have completed the two quizzy poohs...http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_main.html

math and science equals engineering...

Want to make roller coasters...or build bridges ... or racetracks? Let's see what you can do  when we put math and science together with this site.http://www.tryengineering.org/play.php

Challenges in math...logic boxes, puzzles, etc.

Not easy-smeasy...try it... all of them and see how you do. There are tons of these ... pages and pages. If you have extra time, grab paper and pencil and hop on the computer... to see who will defeat any of them!

Election ....2012

How do we do it?  Well, we do it with the electorial college. What is that? And what is the problem with the electorial college. And we need to be informed...about the crafty things political parities do, like gerrymandering.  Who decides who is running? It starts with primaries and caucuses...check it out, and of course they need a calendar.  Here is a map of the US to help you keep track of who is winning where...

 

Now, if you would like to try to be a canidate...play this game.  This "Cable in the Classroom " game, "E lection," has been around for at least 2  past elections...

Music of the Shperes...

Using root words to master vocabulary has been "open our eyes" to many unique and different aspects of learning. Using the root in "sphere", which is first noted in 1530s, with spelling of M.E. spere (c.1300) "space,  and the meaning "conceived as a hollow globe about the world," students worked with spherical, ecosphere, ionosphere, stratosphere, atmosphere, spherical numbers, and the music of the spheres. .It was the "music of the spheres" that students found fascinating. The Oldham piece requires many viewings... amazing.

Measuring Time... from time immemorial

From time immemorial to today, we have sought to keep a calendar, to sort out seasons, to distinguish between  night and day,  and to keep the sun from vanishing in our midst. Stonehenge is thought to be a symbolic measurement of time... in one sort or another.

There remains much confusion over when exactly is "12th night," but there is not much confusion about what goes on when it is celebrated. Pick one factor of the celebration to do a bit of a presentation on for class.  Rubrics will follow.

Shakespeare...Iambic Pentameter

Yo, dudes and dudettes, did you ever consider that the Bard  was a rapper?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p226OX39OLs Will Shakespeare was as real as your heartbeat... yuper-doodle.

 Shakespeare's beautiful and sometimes confusing  language can be used to create many types of  found poems.  Download A quote by any other name. How do we do it...make a found poem from a bunch of quotes? Well,  we seek a mood and tone... and mesh the lines with our own little hand. So as you pen your found poem (and cut it up to move the lines around), be very aware that it is your use of  the Bard's language that sets the tone (the speaker's attitude) and the mood .

In your spare time, warm up to a different tone, that of  the ever so popular insult poem. People of all ages, even in the Bard's time, liked to sling insults around; here are a few to create a mood of bitterness.   Download Insult worksheet iambic pent.,  

 An example of how tone impacts the poetry or prose, consider this soliloquy from Macbeth that s  read with varying tones.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

 

My challenge to you is this; create different characters and have them read it with their authentic voice. Here are a few ideas: a rapper, a cowboy, a Southern girl, a California Valley Girl, an evangelical minister, a very quiet and reserved librarian....

Once we master the iambic pentameter rhythm and patterns, we are ready to roll... to create a variety of presentations from 30 seconds of the Bard to Download Tableaux figurative lang from spear and other nifty little ditties.  Oh, we might even try an epitath or two since Download Epitath Will Shakespeare wrote his own epitath.