Our Solar System: Unit on Planets

Use the following links to help with your solar system project and for study:


Solar System Exploration: NASA


Nine Planets of our Solar System


Our Solarsystem


Planets for Kids-Fun Facts and Information


Why Pluto is no longer a planet?




Songs to remember the solar system order:


Solar System: We are the Planets


Planet Rap! Mr. Parr


Planets Song


Solar System Song-Mr. Parr

Discovering Jamestown- VS 3 Materials and Documents

Great site to Discover Jamestown and Create your own Adventures!

Jametown Online Adventure Game-Will you Survive?


Videos on the Discovery of Jamestown and English Colonists

5 Video Series on Jamestowns Discovery

Story of the Sea Venture Supply Ship of Jamestown

Economics of Jamestown

Chief City-Werowocommoco (Powhatans Headquarters)


4th Grade Study guide for Jamestown:

Jamestown Study Guide- VS3 SOL PASS

Multiplication Review games and Videos

Games for Multiplication Review:
Multiplication Baseball-Easy Multiplication level-Single Digit
Ghostly Multiples
Multiplication Basketball

Double digit Multiplication:
Multiplication baseball 2 digits by 1 digit
Math Frog 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication






Videos to teach multiplication concepts:
2 digit by 2 digit Multiplication\
Lattice Multiplication Trick for 2 by 2 multiplication

Wonderful Site for learning addition and subtraction with regrouping

Mrs. Hills All Stars! Great Site for Practice

This is a wonderful site to help your child practice their addition and subtraction facts.  There are even some really good sites for them to go to and take timed tests, and play games to beat the clock. 

Subtraction and Addition Practice

The following links will provide your 4th grader with lots of addition/subtraction practice, as well as, place value practice.

Rounding Subtraction Pacman

fruit Splat Addition-2digit Level 7 only!

Addition Soccer- 2 digit by 2 digit

Soft Schools 3 digit learning subtraction

Ghost Blasters Subtraction

Ghost Blasters Addition Practice 2 by 2 digit

Virginia's Native Americans

Great Site for Indians in Virginia SOL studies, go here for great information that go with the SOL on Native Americans.  Another important area in Virginia that students need to be familiar with is Werowocomoco.  This was the place where Chief Powhatan had his headquarters.


The following are links to sites that will provide your student with more practice on the Indians.  Monocan Indian Tribes

Indian Tribes of Virginia

IMOVIE PROJECT

This is a wonderful commercial that one of my students and I experimented with using the imovie app on the I-pad.  What a great way for students to share what they know in an all out debate on what is better for our soil.  The efforts of this program will provide a third world country with either manure or worms to help sustain their life in their country by growing healthy crops and sharing with their neighboring villages.

Skype in your own Classroom

Skype in Your Classroom:

There are so many benefits to Skyping in your own classroom.  Everyone talks about how much more engaged students are and how much more they learn because they are learning from there peers, and I can honestly say that this is nothing but the TRUTH!  My experiences with Skype are few, but I can say that they have been great, and the children that you have the hardest time reaching tend to be the most reached.

This year so far our students have had the opportunity of Skyping with a class in another local school on practice debates, and commercials.  Currently, we are planning a "virtual trip" with Yellowstone National Park to learn more about their habitats and local conservation efforts.  Next week we will be Skyping with Cegar, Serbia.  This is a school that has 8 year olds exploring their first year of English and they want a chance to use it in real world situations.  We will be doing a short question and answer session with the students on their habitats in their country and what they do to keep their earth healthy and clean.  Not only is this a great experience for those students, but a great experience for those in my class that will NEVER have any opportunity besides this one to contact someone outside of their own country.

The impact that Skyping with others brings is limitless.  Students learn best from their peers and from their outside experiences.  Providing students with roles in your Skype allow for learning beyond the curriculum.  This allows students to learn about self control, self importance, and critical thinking skills in real world situations.  Talk about applying what they know. 

If you have not had an opportunity to Skype with your students with another class I suggest that you get involved in this site: Skype in the Classroom

There is a great group titled: World Class for Kids. This group allows you to add your name to a database of teachers from all over the world in an effort to connect globally on so many different issues.  If you try it, leave me a comment and let me know how it goes!

Egg Carton Math- Place Value

Place Value to the hundred thousands-
This game is a great way to review with students place value.  It makes it fun and engaging for all. 

I found out that a lot of my students have issues writing the numbers out.  I gave each table a place value chart that was put into a page protector and allowed them to write the numbers into the chart using a dry erase marker.  This made it easy for the children to write their numbers out before putting in on paper to actually see why it was written the way that it was.   Here is the game:

Egg Carton Place Value Sheet

Click Here for the Carton Covers

Are you dying eggs this Easter? Here is an idea for recycling the cartons. You need a carton, some small manipulatives (I used beans) and the printables below. This game is a review of writing numbers in standard form. You have to pre-program the egg carton with the place value chart written inside. We are working on numbers through the hundred thousands place. Students shake the egg carton with the manipulatives inside. Player one has the top row in the carton and player two has the bottom row. After shaking they see where the erasers land and create the number. Example: maybe 3 landed in the hundred thousands, 1 landed in the ten thousands, 3 landed in one thousand and maybe 0 in the hundreds, 3 in the tens and 1 in the ones places. Then the number written is 313,031. Player two checks his number and then they compare using the greater, less than or equal to signs and record answers on the sheet. (See below).

Patterns- A little First Grade Activity

This is my son sharing his patterns :)  I had him create patterns using clothes pins.  Then I video taped him saying the pattern.  He was so excited to know that he would be on my blog and that the teacher was going to see a video of him saying his patterns! What a great way to excite children. 

You could do something like this for other parents and put it into a QR code.  When back to school night starts you could have the parents scan and see things that there children are doing throughout school.  Just a cute little idea :)