Christmas Play

I'm so proud of each one of you! What a wonderful performance! 

Election of 1860

This site gives more detail on the election of 1860.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp

Grammar Interactice Quizzes

We need to practice.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quiz_list.htm

Spelling Words for Test on 12-14

Remember that we are going to do our test on Monday from now on. It just makes more sense, and you have more time. Your list will now be due on Thursday.

1. distinction
2. conspicuous
3. Democrat
4. Republican
5. presidential candidate 
6. Immaculate Conception
7. Dichotomous Key
8. romanticism  
9. bewilderment
10. catechism

Spelling List

The internet stopped working right at the end of the day. I guess now I will have to do the test on Monday. I'll also give you time to work on the definitions today in class.

1. devout
2. suffice
3. transaction
4. lament
5. despotism
6. arthropod

Civil War Days

Veteran's Day

http://www.theholidayzone.com/veterans/interactive.html

Causes Of the Civil War

http://mrnussbaum.com/civil-war/causes/

Test on 11-20

Please check for updated list until Monday, November 16th.

1. abolitionist 
2. diversity
3. institution
4. amendment
5. viruses 
6. Underground Railroad
7. infrastructure
8.   martyr 
9. taxonomy 
10. reconciliation
11. Fugitive Slave Act
12. Missouri Compromise
13.  cotton gin 
14. oxygen
15. amphibians

Bio. of John Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJyCwBnvAzE

Civil War Sites

http://mrnussbaum.com/civil-war-for-kids/

Oregon Trail

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990

The Story of Texas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQlENtGy9c

Conferences

Parents, Please do not forget that this week is parent teacher conference week. Please send back in the forms sent home last week.
Mrs. Casto's Homeroom

Spelling/ Vocabulary 11-2

I want to have the quiz for these five words on Thursday. We have our final Western Expansion test on Friday.

1. Exodusters, (Western Expansion) This should be in your notes.
2. Ghost Dance
3. self fulfilling prophecy
4. protists
5. government

United States

http://mrnussbaum.com/united-states/united_states/
State Info.

Landforms
http://mrnussbaum.com/united-states/united_states_landforms/

Short Videos on States
http://mrnussbaum.com/state-videos/

Scary Story Rubric

Name___________ 5.LVS.1.4 and 5.W.1.1 I can organize my story for an oral presentation. The details flow smoothly and my classmates can follow my story because my details are ordered logically. I can sequence my writing. 5pts 5.W.1.1 I can write using good details that stick to my topic. 5pts 5.W.1.1 I can use transition words to organize my writing/oral presentation. 5pts 5.W.1.1 I can write a descriptive story (beginning, middle, end). 5pts 5.W.1.1 I can share my writing with my peers. 5pts 5.W.1.1 I can use descriptive words when I write. 5pts 5.LVS.1.4 I can maintain eye contact. 5pts 5.LVS.1.4 I can use appropriate volume. 5pts 5.LVS.1.4 I can speak clearly. 5pts 5.LVS.1.4 I can speak with appropriate speed. 5pts 5.LVS.1.4 I can use appropriate body language. 5pts

Western Expansion Videos

This is on youtube. Please get permission first. There are several more video parts to the right. If you want to watch at home, please watch them in order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ek1gFNS-M&list=PLLIGciYJP_5nlRpGHgpKMFrypS5wzFNUz

Video: Western Expansion Overview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIjYd-SKNRc

Cowboys

http://www.history.com/topics/cowboys

Spelling Test Words 10/24/15

1. Homestead Act
2. reservation (Native American)
3. treaty
4. culture clash
5. transcontinental
6. perseverance
7. membrane
8. organelles
9. eukaryotic cells
10. prokaryotic  cells

History Channel The Story of Us

This is just the section on the Transcontinental Railroad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvQyBcbHJkg

Cells Alive

This is a site to help with your Science Cell Project due the 20th. Check out the
http://www.cellsalive.com/

Impact of Western Expansion on Native Americans Project Resource

This timeline link may help with your Native American project. Be aware of shocking parts. Be sure to go through to the 1900s.

https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/events/1850_1860.htm


This site links to an overview of Western Expansion and the Plains Indians.

http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/westwardexpansion/section11.rhtml

This link shows the impact of forced reservation life.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/40d.asp

Online Book Fair!

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=stjosephgradesch

If you don't find what you want, you may be able to find it online.

Panama Canal LATER

Note: The Panama Canal was not available to western settlers and prospectors during Western Expansion.
http://www.history.com/search?q=panama%20canal%20opens

Native Americans

https://www.brainpop.com/games/missionusacheyenneodyssey/

Also, click on the other links from Brainpop to learn about other aspects of Native Americans.
The user name is.... sjwv and you know the password.

The impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on Native Americans site.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/interview/tcrr-interview/

Importance of the buffalo to Native Americans on History Channel
http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/native-american-cultures/videos/american-buffalo

All of the buffalo was used by Native Americans.
http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/native-american-cultures#

Spelling TEST 10-9

1. classification
2. prospectors
3. Western Expansion
4. Panama Canal
5. Beatitudes
6. California Trail
7. Oregon Trail
8. Mormon Trail
9. measles
10. cholera

Life as A Gold Prospector

Ignore all of the ads on this site. Just keep to the good information about gold prospectors.  
http://www.kidport.com/reflib/usahistory/calgoldrush/lifeof49er.htm

Gold Rush Documentary Video. Ask parents prior to watching.This video goes into the 20th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIMXhmvuiQA

Bio

Here is a site that may help you out in writing or researching for your biography.
http://www.macmillanreaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/biographyWorksheetElementary.pdf

Week of 9/28

This week we will not have a spelling test. :) Don't forget your permission slip and $7.00 for our field trip.
We will be moving on in social studies this week to western expansion in the United States. Our Reading class will go hand in hand with Social Studies. I'll be reading a book with you that I'm sure you will enjoy. Which Way to The Wild West by, Steve Sheinkin. Check my blog for updates on sites. Here are a few to get you started.

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/westward_expansion/westward_expansion.htm.  Check the guide links to the left when you get to this site.

http://www.american-historama.org/1841-1850-westward-expansion/westward-expansion.htm.
I like this one because it has a good timeline, but there are many advertisements. Please do not click on any ads. Do click on any links in blue on the timeline, and it will take you to a whole site just on that subject.

This last one just lets you know about the book I'll be reading.

http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=16496&a=1

Samuel Morse

From History.com
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph

Spelling List Test 9-25... Updated

1. steam locomotives
2. electricity
3. oscillation
4. assembly line
5. aviation
6. lubricant
7. quotient
8. friction
9. Morse code 
10. transitional

History of Trains

 Be sure to ask your parents to go onto youtube.com. Never click on other videos other than the ones I post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45__gIY-gow   Short History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tINxBuHojnQ   A longer more detailed version from History Channel in three parts.

Want more?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kq1r27S5DU  This is a full documentary on the Transcontinental Railroad by; American Experience. 

Science for kids Steam Engine

http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-steam-engines/

Spelling City

This is a fun site to practice tests for your spelling test. You can also play games.
http://www.spellingcity.com/

Canals

Youtube Video: ASK FIRST

Hoggee on the Erie Canal 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7oNKkYFZm8

The Story of Us on Erie Canal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-gIFYOCIfE 

Traveling the Erie Canal Today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_Hr3iCPls

Spelling List for Test on 9-18

1. system
2. propel
3. exponents
4. associative
5. distributive
6. apostles
7. rotary motion
8. governor (machinery)
9. necessity
10. canals (water)

Steam Power

All links from Youtube
 Please get your parent's permission prior to watching anything on Youtube.
First Steam Engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls9djCRMSh4&list=PL38_3hEKUZZOsccwE_84TXhi-WhR8bnrB

History of invention: starts at 4:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPIcoaWPcIg

Visual History:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ANJEpj79o

 Trains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zMOVmGu5qY

Parts of Speech

On Friday we will have a quiz on parts of speech. It will be identifying parts of speech within a sentence similar to how we do it in our journals. Use this game to practice: http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/gg.cgi?A1=c&A2=7&A3=7&A4=v&A5=LVPI&A6=v&A7=LVPI&A8=13&ALEVEL=1&AFUNCT=1
Use this chart to help you out.

Food Preservation History

http://schoolworkhelper.net/food-preservation-history-methods-types/

video clip: Parent's Permission ONLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPWvzW82kWU

Harry Potter Sorting Quiz

http://www.gotoquiz.com/pottermore_sorting_hat_quiz_2

Child Labor

Resources for comparing and contrasting your life with the life of a child working during the American Industrial Revolution. Please make sure it is okay with your parents before watching anything on youtube. Also, do not click on any external links on youtube.
 Video from class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHmqEqJN59o


Mill Girls: This is a specific film just on mill girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJwOYagvuI

Student Made Report of Child Labor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2M9i1Wy6IU

The First Factories in America Resouce

http://www.ushistory.org/us/25d.asp

Spelling Vocab. List Test 5-4

1. composition
2. deliberate 
3. desolate
4. parapets
5. scarcity
6. perfidy
7. story elements
8. credit
9. conditions
10. respiratory disease

Story Elements Rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6I24S72Jps

FREE BOOKS!!

We can get free books through Kellogg's products. Just look for the code, bring it in, and we will get a free book for our class library! YAY! Bring me codes!!

 

Scholastic Book Orders

https://clubs2.scholastic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/LogonForm

I will submit orders every Friday, but you can order anytime during the week. You may enter orders online with the class code GRY7J, or you may bring the orders directly to me, and I will submit them for you.

History Channel Site on Eli Whitney and Interchangable Parts

Read first...then watch with your parent's permission. 

http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/interchangeable-parts

Site to Enter A Vision for the Future Competition

https://www.exploravision.org

This is not for class points. It is just offered for a chance to win 10,000 in savings bonds.

Spelling/Vocabulary TEST 8-28

 

Students, please define your words using the Dictionary or device in YOUR own words. Make it a little easier to understand. Use kid language. :) 

1. Industrial Revolution
2. textile
3. technology
4. invention
5. standardized
6. literature   (capitalized if used as a course title)
7. science  (capitalized if used as a course title)
8. synergy
9.  proactive
10. decimal
11. observation
12. variable
13. experiment
14. steam engine 
15. miraculous
16. moral dilemma
17. baptism
18. religion (capitalized if used as a course title)
19. pendulum 

Habits Again... They are super important!

7 Habits

Welcome to 5th Grade!

This blog does not require a password for you, your parents, or even your grandparents. Anyone who has the address can view the fun sites I'll be placing on here for you.
I will also put your vocabulary/spelling lists on here for easy access. This is not where you will find your homework assignments. They will, or should be located in your planner. ;)
To access sites just click on the address. Sometimes games will not play on IPads and IPhones. You should be able to play them on your laptops or home computers.
There will be times I will post an assignment on here with directions to be done at home or in the computer lab. You will be reminded to place any homework in your planner. :) Planner, Planner, Planner
I'm very excited to teach all new material to you this year! I'm sure we are going to make it a GREAT one!