Mrs. Zimmerman's 4th grade Class Antics: 2015

Here is a link to an amazing site full of social studies review games for Virginia Studies! Fun way to learn about topics not even covered yet, or review those that we have covered! HAVE FUN :)

Social Studies Review- VA Studies All Topics

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Division Games- Multi-digit division with and without remainders

Division Review Monster

Division Shoot Out

Long Division
Division Practice with remainders
Division Soccer with Remainders
Math Frog Dividerama
Snorks Long Division

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Multiplication- MEMORIZE THOSE FACTS

Around the World with Multiplication

Meteor Multiplication

3 by 1 Multiplication Practice

Fruit Splat Facts

Estimation of Multiplication Pac Man

Estimation of Multiplication- LEVEL ONE ONLY!

Ten Marks Practice with Math: Make sure to practice those facts!

Have your child log on frequently to practice those math facts using the following link:
https://www.tenmarks.com/login

Discovering Jamestown-Game links, and other important information

Be Captain John Smith, as you lead colonists on an adventure to discover Jamestown
Discovering Jamestown Online Adventure

Explore the many Charters granted to the English Colonies that settled in Jamestown
http://www.landofthebrave.info/charter-of-virginia.htm

Powhatan Indians find the Colonists a threat
http://www.ushistory.org/us/2e.asp
http://www.historyisfun.org/jamestown-settlement/powhatan-village/pocahontas-and-the-powhatans-of-virginia/

John Smith and the Powhatan Indians
http://smithtrail.net/native-americans/indians-smith/smith-powhatan-pocahontas

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Higher Level Thinking:

Think you understand multiplication- Try some multiplication with decimals

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/decimals-pre-alg/multiplying-decimals-pre-alg/v/intro-to-multiplying-decimals

https://www.mathsisfun.com/multiplying-decimals.html

http://www.math.com/school/subject1/lessons/S1U1L5GL.html

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Everything You Need for Virginia Studies!

Studying is so important for 4th grade, and History covers so many topics of Virginia Studies. Here is a one stop shop link to everything Virginia Studies! HAVE FUN :)

Porta Portal for Entire 4th Grade Virginia Studies

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Addition Games to Practice!

Wonderful Addition Games to practice those facts!

Racing for Addition

Who Wants to be a Millionaire Addition!

Thinking Blocks Word Problem Challenge

Sunday, October 11, 2015

McDonalds Project: How many Calories would you eat in a Day? Add/Subtract Project

Look at the following menu from McDonalds. Your job is to pick a breakfast, lunch, and dinner option from the menu and calculate how many calories you have consumed in that day. When you are done, and have completely totaled up your items, you will then write about whether or not your choices are healthy.

McDonalds Build Your Own Meal Menu

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Adding and Subtracting Decimals! A bit more of a challenge...

Adding Decimals Soccer

Adding Decimals Baseball

Subtracting Decimals Basketball

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Practicing Decimals- Games and Activities!

Review those Decimals with Rounding and Place Value!
Decimal Place Value Football
Rounding Decimals Practice baseball
Rounding Decimals to the nearest whole number Soccer

Ordering Decimals:

Decimal Balloon Pop!

Flower Power Decimal Ordering

Decimal Ordering

Comparing Decimals

Fruit Shoot Decimal Comparisons- Level 2 and 3

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Spelling Word Practice

Check out the following link to have your students practice their spelling words. If they don't remember their number, just have them click on the groups until they find their word lists!

Have fun!

Spelling City Games

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

PLACE VALUE GAMES

Building Numbers with Blocks

Number Forms Game

Missing Number Machine

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Hydroponic Gardening vs. Traditional Gardening

Pros/Cons of Hydroponic Gardening:
Home guides of Hydroponics
Auburn Journal-Hydroponics
Olivia's Solutions to Hydroponics

Pros/Cons of traditional Gardening:
pros and cons of a raised bed garden
Modern Mom- Raised Garden Beds

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Dead "Commonly Overused" Words! Oh My, What do I do?

If you are having trouble coming up with a good word for the word that you have chosen, try these sites to help you find a more useful word. Words like great, good, and bad all have more "exuberent" words that can be used instead :) Take a look and see if you can find words that make your story just a bit more exciting.

Synonyms for 4th grade writing overused words

Online Thesaurus

Overused Words Synonyms List

Monday, May 4, 2015

SOL TEST PREP! TESTNAV LINKS AND RESOURCES

Reading and Math SOL Practice-Test Nav

Monday, April 27, 2015

Dictionary Skills-Guide Words Practice

This is a huge struggle for children of all ages. Knowing where to place a word and put it into alphabetical order is such a hard concept. The following site will allow you to practice this skill and master it!

Guide Words Practice

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Measurement Games

Weight- Metric and Customary Units of Measurement Games

Customary Ounces to Pounds Conversion Game

Guess What Measurement to Use? Metric

Guess what measure to use? Customary

Friday, April 17, 2015

Probability and Graphing Games and Activities

Probability: Online games for finding the fractions and Chances

Coco The Parrot Probability

Starfish Probability

Letter Probability Games

Graphing: Line, Bar, and Ordered Pairs

Castle Catapult-Ordered Pairs Graphing Game

Bar Graph Quiz Practice-Favorite Vegetables

Plot data and create your own Bar Graphs

Line Plot Practice-Chicken Game

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Hungry 4 History Quizzes- Must get a 85% or Above for Pizza Party Time!

Quiz #1

Quiz #2

Quiz #3

Quiz #4

Quiz #5

Quiz #6

Quiz #7

Quiz #8

Quiz #9

Quiz #10

Monday, March 9, 2015

Quarter 3 4th grade Math Review Games- Excellent Resources

Game Resources for Fractions:

Equivalent Fraction Games:

Equivalent Fraction Bingo

Equivalent Fraction Match Up

Great Math Manipulatives:

Math Manipulatives- Fractions to Decimals to Percents

GCF and LCM Lessons:

Least Common Multiple Snowball Fight

Sketch's World Greatest Common Factor Game

Greatest Common Factor Fruit Shoot

Least Common Multiple Fruit Shoot

Simplifying Fractions:

Simplifying Fractions Soccer Game

Simplifying Fractions Baseball

Improper to Mixed, and Mixed to Improper fractions Games:

Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions Guess It Game

Mixed Numbers and Improper Fraction Match Up

Comparing Fractions:

Comparing Fractions Tug of War

Comparing Fractions Balloon Pop Game

Instruction Videos that Help with Math Understanding:

Simplifying Fractions and Reducing

Equivalent Fractions Made Easy

Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Science Is So Much Fun: Fun with the Elementary Science Institute at Graves Mountain Lodge in the Blue Ridge

Our Cohort had a blast at Graves Mountain Lodge in the Blue Ridge Region of Virginia! The food was awesome, and the team bonding was great. We learned so much about hands on Science Instruction. Can't wait for the next outing to Hungry Mother State Park.

**Kind of bummed that I didn't get to see any black bears**

Pumpkin Mania- What a fun way to celebrate in the classroom and have some measurement fun!

Students worked together on the Friday before Halloween. Each child brought in a pumpkin o donate to the class for us to dissect. The students received a recording sheet for pumpkin mania. The had to first make a hypothesis about what pumpkin would have the most seeds and why? I pre-cut all pumpkin tops beforehand to save on time. The students worked in pairs to remove the "guts" from the pumpkins and collect/count all seeds in the pumpkins and record it. They had to weigh their pumpkins and measure the circumference of their pumpkin. All data was recorded and they even made graphs for how many seeds they thought there were vs. how many their actually were. We all shared our results afterwards.

The parent support was AWESOME!!!

After the children were done, they cleaned up, and handed all seed bags to me. I went home that weekend and made apple cider and roasted pumpkin seeds to bring to class for the kids. What a fun time!

VS 6- A New Nation Before the Civil War

VS 6 Study guide- A New Nation

All About George Washington- The Father of Our Country

James Madison- The Father of our Constitution

George Mason- Virginia Bill of Rights

Thomas Jefferson- Author of the Declaration of Independence

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Fractions All over the place!

Here are some games to help practice the fraction concepts we are learning in class:

Fraction Benchmarks and Basic Concepts:

Fraction Booster

Benchmark Fraction Monkeys

More Than, Less Than, or Equal too 1/2

Equivalent Fraction Games

Equivalent Fraction Match Up

Equivalent Fraction Bingo

Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions

Math Playground Conversions

GCF and LCM

Upside Down Birthday Cake Method of GCF-Video

Sketch's World GCF

LCM Fruit Shoot

LCM Pirate Ship Game- 2 players

Monday, January 12, 2015

Math Robot Project

Your child has been assigned a math robot project. The idea is to get your child to build a 3D math robot using everyday things around the house. They must include the following shapes on their robots:

Cube

cone

cylinder

Rectangluar Prism

Sphere

This project will be due on January 23rd, and they must turn in the "test" along with the project that is attached to the forms. Please feel free to email if you have any questions at all.

here is a link that will lead you to a page where you can download paper templates to make the shapes by hand if you need to: Printable 3d shapes

Here are some pictures of Math Robots Created Before: