Plants!

Hello Everyone!
Today we watched an awesome introductory video on plants by Bill Nye, The Science Guy!  You can click here to check it out again!

You can complete an assignment/task below for extra credit...worth up to 2 homework points!

Choose one of the following...

1) Create a poster showing how we use plants in everyday life.  Your poster should include pictures or drawings of plants and a short explanation of how they are useful.  You can type or print neatly on the poster.

or

2) Conduct an experiment that you saw from the Bill Nye video.  Take pictures and write up the results of your experiment.  Explain what you learned from doing the experiment (in a short paragraph 4-5 sentences). 


Have fun!
Mr. Andrews

Prime and Composite Numbers

Hello Everyone!
Today we learned about prime and composite numbers.  Here are the videos we watched in class today!  The first one is an overview of prime and composite numbers.  The second video is a prime number rap song!  I think you will enjoy it!

Cheers!
Mr. Andrews

Prime and Composite Video Lesson

The Prime Number Rap to 100

Developing Characters and Planning Your Story

Hello Everyone!
I found some more videos and tutorials that will help you when planning out your stories.  Check them out and see if you find them useful!  Thank you to Michelle Ware, the author of both videos.

Developing Believable Characters

Planning with a Story Arc (we will review this more in class, but it is a good preview lesson)


And here is one from Pixar, they talk about how they develop believable characters for animated movies.

Enjoy!
Mr. Andrews

New York Geography and Landforms

Hello Everyone!
I'm back with another weekly post.  We have been studying and learning about the geography of New York.  We learned that New York State has a diverse landscape.  We learned about the different landforms in class.

Below are two links:  One is a photo tour of New York State divided up into the 7 regions, the other is picture dictionary of the most common landforms of New York.  Use the photo tour and see how many of the different landforms you can identify.  It should be a lot of fun!

Enjoy!
Mr. Andrews

Photo Tour

Landform Picture Definitions

Character Traits

Hello Writers!
We have been planning ideas for stories in writing.  The most important part of any fictional story is the character.  Here is a quick animated video on character traits and character development.  I hope you find this useful when you are listing internal and external traits for your character!

Good luck!
Mr. Andrews

Fingerprinting

Hello Everyone!
In science class, we have been learning all about observation skills and how scientists use them to ask and answer questions, make discoveries, collect data and draw conclusions.  We just finished our fingerprinting lab.  We found out that 65% percent of our class fingerprints are loops, 22 % are whorls and 13% are arches.

Here is a cool video on how a Sheriff's department in Polk County uses fingerprints in real world.

I hope you enjoy it!

Mr. Andrews :)

Multiplicative Comparison Tutorial

Hello Parents and Students,
Today I taught a lesson on multiplicative comparison.  Check out these two videos on how to setup and solve those types of problems.  Enjoy!

Video 1

Video 2

Thanks to Ms. Viceli and Ms. Chai, the authors of the two videos respectively
Mr. Andrews