Fractions!

Hello everyone!
Today, we watched an animated video titled "The Weird Number".  It introduces many fraction concepts in a fun way.  The students seemed to really enjoy it!  I encourage you to watch it together at home and use some of these questions below to guide a discussion:

The Weird Number video link
1) How are fractions and whole numbers similar?  How are they different?
2) What does it mean that whole numbers can "change forms"?  Give examples.
3) How are fractions and division similar?  Give examples.
4) How did two-thirds escape from the sheriff "763"? 
5) How can you use what you learned from this video to find equivalent fractions?

Have fun!

Mr. Andrews

The Age of Exploration

Happy New Year!
Welcome back!

We are beginning our study of the European Explorers and the Age of Exploration in social studies.  Below is a link to video we watched on Discovery Education.

Use this video to help you answer questions about the explorers!

Video link

Enjoy!
Mr. Andrews

Animal Adaptations

Hello Everyone,
We are studying about animals and how they adapt to their surroundings!  Here are some links to videos and notes from class.  Enjoy!

Video 1: Animal Adaptations All Around Us

Video 2: Animal Adaptations with Counselor Bob

Brain Pop Clips:
Reptiles
Amphibians
Birds
Mammals
Fish
Invertebrates (animals without a backbone)

Video notes

Mr. Andrews 😊

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