ISIS Grade 5 2011/2012

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Posting to our ePortfolios

Ok so here’s the plan! Today we are going upload two different reflections to our ePortfolios.

1.Type in your grammar reflection which you began to write last class. I guess that means you might need your English notebook.

2.Raz Kids reflection. You will take a screenshot of raz kids and use that to write a reflection about your Raz-Kids progress.

How to you take a screenshot? You open the page you want to take a picture of, then you press “print scrn” It is above the insert key. Next, you paste into a graphics program like paint. You are able to paste to right onto google sites.

Monday, 2 January 2012

Using longitude and latitude

Well since many of us love looking at maps (especially your teacher) we now get to do so in math. We are studying coordinate grids. Here is a list of mystery cities. I have given you their longitude and latitude, can you find which cities i'm listing? Its a lot easier to use a computer for this, but I would like you to use the Atlas to practice working with coordinates on a plane:

We can use N, S, E and W or
we can use + for north and east
-- for south and west

1. N13.9167, E100.6
2. 49.2833 -123.117
3. 33.9333 , -118.4
4. -22.8667 , -43.3667

5. N 45.5, E 12.3333

6. -41.3333, 174.8

Also for help, check out these Kahn Math coordinate math videos:
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/the-coordinate-plane?playlist=ck12.org+Algebra+1+Examples
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/quadrants-of-coordinate-plane?playlist=Developmental+Math+2

Monday, 19 December 2011

We want your comments on the writing process.

When I was looking over your ePortfolios (sites.google.com) and I noticed that many of you are missing a response about proofreading and revising.

Here is a link to the scans of your writing process pieces.

1. Find a piece your edited or revised and post it in the English section of your ePortfolio, and comment on how you edited or revised the work. How did you proofread it, what did you fix? (Did you make it more clear? Add more adjectives? Fix spelling and punctuation?)

2. Find your drafting (the piece you wrote), post it to the English section of your ePortfolio and comment on how you drafted it and what you think of the edits that were made from your friends.

Thursday, 8 December 2011

The truth.

This is the most important problem in the world. The way we change the way we live is the single most important thing we will do with our lives.

The planet has problems,
they are bad
and getting worse.
They are because of human activity.

This will affect us all. This is our story together. What are your feelings about this? What will you do about this problem? What can we do to be leaders in saving our planet?

This is one of the best videos around about our problem. I suggest we all watch it and share it with our families.

Home in English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

How to add our wall wisher to your ePortfolio!

So, you like the wall wisher? Ready to add it to your English section of your ePortfolio?
Its easy, here's how:

1. Copy this special "html" code

<iframe src="http://www.wallwisher.com/embed/whyRUlearning" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="400px" style="border: 1px solid #999999"></iframe>

2. Go to your Google site and edit the page you want the Wallwisher on.

3. Press the little <html> button on the edit bar, then paste the special code in.

4. Click update

Monday, 5 December 2011

FactMonster

FactMonster is one of my favorite research resources for fifth grade.
It has an enormous amount of GOOD information we can use for our reasearch projects. Check it out.

Sunday, 4 December 2011

Why are you learning English?

Here is a video that really makes you think about why students around the world are learning English. You can hear a lot of different accents, but the reasons for learning are the most important part. I will show this video in class today to help us come up with some English goals.

What will you do to learn English better?