Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Math Educational Websites


I've attached math websites that I found helpful for the students over the past year.  Enjoy these over the summer.  Let me know what website you find the most helpful and exciting.

     http://www.math-play.com/5th-grade-math-games.html
     http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/
     http://www.ixl.com/math/grade/fifth/
     http://www.homeschoolmath.net/online/geometry.php
     http://www.mathslice.com/

Thursday, May 5, 2011

A Day in School

Take a peak into what we do in a day.
When it is nice out...

We began the day cranking out Khan Academy lessons.



Next, because the weather was so nice, we practiced our Latin lesson outside.


Some fun and exciting science presentations came right after Latin.



After eating lunch outside, we practice choir then returned to the outdoors for a video shoot with Mrs. Hier.






On Writing Class Today:

    C.S. Lewis said of writing, "Instead of telling us a thing was 'terrible,' describe it so that we'll be terrified.  Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description.  You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please will you do my job for me."  (C.S. Lewis' Letters to Children)

    During writing class, I read some of C.S. Lewis' descriptions of food, and he makes your mouth water.  You can almost taste the food as you read about, "...the hissing and delicious smell of sausages, and more, and more, and more sausages.  And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt.'  ~ The Silver Chair (chap. The Healing of Harms)

I couldn't resist tantalizing your taste buds.  Below are posted some of the student's descriptions of food.

We started dinner with a thick, juicy steak, simply dripping in its own juice.  A mountain of mashed potatoes had gravy oozing out the sides and the smell of soft French bread with melted butter soaking in went with the steak.  For dessert we had a moist chocolate cake with a thick coat of icing just a little bit hard on the edge.

Steaming hot apple crumble with creamy Haagen Dazs vanilla beside the crumble, and the two desserts mingled together to make a heavenly taste.  The cinnamon and brown sugar on top of the crumble mixes with the ice cream, which seeps into the soft baked apples, with the perfect texture.  As I pop it inside my mouth, I close my eyes and dream of soft apples, smell the vanilla bean, and taste the crumbly butter and brown sugar in my mouth.  

Now I must be off to bake something delicious.  

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Khan Academy

I would like to commend those who are working on Khan Academy during this spring break.  I see that some of you are excelling.  Good job!  Keep up on the good work.


Sunday, March 20, 2011

Get Ahead with Khan Academy

This week we will be learning about finding the least common multiples (LCM) of two numbers.
Watch it on the Khan Academy and do the exercise for extra credit!

To be able to do exercises on Khan Academy, each student needs to log in.
At the top of the Khan Academy page click 'login with google'.
Type in your username and password.


 Passwords:                Usernames:
 annahill                       annahill@goschool.org
bethfrost                      bethfrost@goschool.org
clarkcaputo                 clarkcaputo@goschool.org
daviscaputo                daviscaputo@goschool.org
jessestephenson jessestephenson@goschool.org
joemartucci                 joemartucci@goschool.org
juanitawilliams           juanitawilliams@goschool.org
leannelivingston leannelivingston@goschool.org
michaelkeen               michaelkeen@goschool.org
robynlivingston robynlivingston@goschool.org
roseoconnor               roseoconnor@goschool.org
rubywaters                 rubywaters@goschool.org
timketron                   timketron@goschool.org
timmichaelis              timmichaelis@goschool.org


Link to video on least common multiples
Below the video click exercises to practice the concept.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Khan Academy & Parable Retelling

We have been drawing from the Khan Academy.  This webpage has many videos of multiple subjects (a lot of math) that explain different topics the students are learning.
A while ago, Ruby brought in a way to multiply called lattice multiplication.  It is very neat.
Here is a video from Khan Academy showing how lattice multiplication works.


Also today, I gave the students different parables and they read the parables, storyboarded the parables for playmobil and photographed the story.  See if you can guess the parable prior to looking up the reference.





Luke 15:8-10












Luke 6:48-49







Luke 8:4-15







Luke 8:9-14







Matt 13:44 - 45


  
Luke 10:30-35


Friday, February 25, 2011

Next Week's Concepts

Click the links to find fun games teaching the academic concepts.


Next week in the students will be learning:


    Math: Dividing Fractions, Ratios (see fraction and ratio games), and temperature.
   
    Latin: Ellen's group: flashcards and other games, study guide
                Miss Williams' group: flashcards and other gamesstudy guide

    Science: Learn how chocolate is made
    

Friday, February 18, 2011

Math Madness

Today the 4th & 5th graders had math class together.  They were learning how to change improper fractions into mixed or whole numbers.  I think the students enjoy mixed classes. They like to be with one another.