Plant Adaptations!

Hello everyone,
We will begin learning about how living things adapt to their environment.  Below is a video titled, "Life: Plants".  It is narrated by Oprah Winfrey.  In the video you witness how strange and unusual plants adapt to their habitat.  Watch the video and type in comments in the comments section.  Let me know what you learned or thought was fascinating from watching the video!

Enjoy!
Mr. Andrews😊

Video link

Social Studies Review

Hello everyone!
Today, we learned different ways we can prepare and study for an exam.  Cool and exciting ways!
Some students made notecards, while others created interactive board games. 

Below are links to your study notes for Wednesdays test. 
Good luck 😎

Geography notes

Iroquois notes

Non Fiction Reading and Writing

Hello Readers and Writers!
We are well into our unit on nonfiction and opinion writing.  I wanted to share some resources and videos that I thought would be good to review at home!  Enjoy them!

Nonfiction Features

Text structures--Part 1

Text structures--Part 2

Musical song about nonfiction texts!  (This is so awesome!!)

Quick musical on differences between Fiction and Nonfiction

Opinion Writing 101

Boxes and Bullets--A framework for organizing an opinion essay

View at your pleasure!
Enjoy!
Mr. Andrews

Subtraction and Place Value

Hello Everyone!
I am back with some new math posts!  I am posting some video links that I found that might be helpful.  We are spending some days reviewing subtraction and addition.  Place value is so important to help you understand subtraction and addition strategies.  Here are links to two videos that illustrate that!

Video 1 on place value
Video 2 on subtraction using place value

Happy viewing!
Mr. Andrews

Division Strategies

Hello Everyone!
We have begun division in math class.  I found some videos that might be helpful.  Each one is a little different!  They show some strategies that you can use for solving problems.

Video 1:  Division Using Arrays by Wendy Smith.  This shows the "break apart" strategy for division (Distributive Property).  A great visual tool for solving division problems.

Video 2: Division for Beginners by LadyDMcollector.  This video breaks down the basic concept of division and its relationship to multiplication.

Video 3: An overview of division strategies.  Some that we have learned and others that we will explore soon in class. 

Enjoy!
Mr. Andrews