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