Mary
JAN.09-Ms. Mary: Possessives; Scrapbook of SF Community (Then, Now)
Dance Mat Typing
Dog's bonePossessive Noun Online Learning Activity

Collect Information on a San Francisco Neighborhood or Landmark
[Then...and Now]
1. Bernal Heights Preservation
1a. SF Historic Photograph Collection
2. Calisphere- A World of Primary Sources
3. San Francisco Landmarks
4. San Francisco Neighborhoods5. Bernal Heights
6. San Francisco.com
# - Discuss
Thanksgiving Typing Challenge!
Dance Mat Typing
Typing: The Frogs Are Off Their Diet!
Subject-Verb Agreement TREASURE HUNT!
1. Common Homophones
2. Match the Homophones
3. Choose the correct Homophone
Prefixes Say Plenty

Prefixes Castle Game(im-; in-)

Draggable Subtraction
# - Discuss
1. What is the difference between Reality and Fantasy?
(Non-Fiction and Fiction?)

Venn Diagram
# - Discuss
Ms. Mary - Family Traditions Write-up; Yurok Indians
(Non-Fiction and Fiction?)

Venn Diagram# - Discuss
Thanksgiving Typing Challenge!
Dance Mat Typing
Typing: The Frogs Are Off Their Diet!
The YUROK TribeMap and Pictures of the Yurok Tribe
Let's finish our
#1: Something special you do with your family (tradition)
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
Typing: The Frogs Are Off Their Diet!
Where were the Miwok in CA?
Let's finish our
#1: Something special you do with your family (tradition)
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
The Chumash Tribe
Native Populations Map of CA
Chumash Man
Chumash Life
Let's finish our
#1: Something special you do with your family (tradition)
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing1. Carmen Lomas Garza- Portraits of a Traditional Mexican Family
# - Discuss
You may use for your Information:
1.

3. Clusty
4. StarDate Online [PLANET INFO.]
5. Other "Bodies" in Our Solar System
Telescopes, the Solar System and More!
Snow on the Mars?
StarDate Online
Science Lab [Solar System]
NASA Kids' Club

Oakland Museum Virtual Field Trip
# - Discuss
Ms. Mary- Fictional Writing: Adventure in Outer Space
1.


3. Clusty
4. StarDate Online [PLANET INFO.]
5. Other "Bodies" in Our Solar System
Telescopes, the Solar System and More!Snow on the Mars?
StarDate Online
NASA Kids' Club
Oakland Museum Virtual Field Trip
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
Telescopes, the Solar System and More!Snow on the Mars?
StarDate Online
NASA Kids' Club
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
Telescopes, the Solar System and More!Snow on the Mars?
StarDate Online
NASA Kids' Club
# - Discuss
Dance Mat TypingScience
MoonGoogle Moon
More About the Moon

Geography Glossary
Landforms
Physical Features Slideshow
Landforms of the World
Landforms# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
Physical Map of CA
Geography Glossary
Landforms
Physical Features Slideshow
Landforms of the World
Maps and a Compass RoseScience
Moon# - Discuss
ROOT WORDS
Root Words, Prefixes & Suffixes1. Roots and their Families
1. BIOGRAPHY: Chiura Obata
2. Chiura Obata Video Biography

Geography Glossary
Landforms
Physical Features Slideshow
Landforms of the World
Maps and a Compass Rose[BrainPop movie]
The Orientometer
(Click the link that says orientometer)
SUN
Sun, Moon and Stars# - Discuss
ROOT WORDS
Root Words, Prefixes & Suffixes
1. Roots and their Families

1. BIOGRAPHY: Chiura Obata
2. Chiura Obata Video Biography


Geography Glossary
Landforms
Physical Features Slideshow
Landforms of the World

Maps and a Compass Rose
[BrainPop movie]
The Orientometer
(Click the link that says orientometer)

SUN
Sun, Moon and Stars
BBC-EARTH, SUN & MOON
# - Discuss
Ms. Mary- Animal Reports
Root Words, Prefixes & Suffixes1. Roots and their Families
1. BIOGRAPHY: Chiura Obata
2. Chiura Obata Video Biography

Geography Glossary
Landforms
Physical Features Slideshow
Landforms of the World
Maps and a Compass Rose[BrainPop movie]
The Orientometer
(Click the link that says orientometer)
SUN
Sun, Moon and Stars# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
The Typing of the Ghosts
Free Typing Programs
Kids Go Wild-Wild Animal Facts
Science Website #1Science website #2
AnimalsMore movies on Animals # - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
The Typing of the Ghosts
Free Typing Programs
Kids Go Wild-Wild Animal Facts
Science Website #1Science website #2
AnimalsMore movies on Animals
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
The Typing of the Ghosts
Free Typing Programs
Kids Go Wild-Wild Animal Facts
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
The Typing of the Ghosts
Free Typing Programs
Kids Go Wild-Wild Animal Facts
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
The Typing of the Ghosts
Free Typing Programs2. Kids Go Wild-Wild Animal Facts
*Click on Ms. Mary to go to the Animal Links
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
The Typing of the Ghosts
Free Typing Programs
MEASUREMENT*Weight & Capacity Animated Movie
1. Weigh It Up
2. Scale Reader
3. Artie Ounces
4. Reading millileters (millilitres)
5. Animal Weigh in (convert kg to g, etc.)
2. Kids Go Wild-Wild Animal Facts
*Click on Ms. Mary to go to the Animal Links
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
Free Typing Programs
The Typing of the Ghosts
Syllabication MachineMATH
1. MathWorld Challenge
*Let's use Kidspiration to map out our problem solving strategies
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
Free Typing Programs
The Typing of the GhostsANALOGIES
1. Online Analogies
2. More Analogies
SCIENCE

1. Watch it Grow Activity
(Also Look at the Photo Gallery)
2. Watch a REAL plant Grow from A Seed/How are seeds dispersed?
3. Seed Dispersal- Can You Guess?
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
Free Typing Programs
The Typing of the Ghosts
What is the story about?
HM: Theme 5- Across the Wide Dark Sea
1. Galleons and Their Parts
2. Parts of a 1600's Ship (the Mayflower)
3. Another view...
4. A few Pictures from inside the Mayflower II
We will now work on our Animal Diversity Reports.
Click Ms. Mary's face below to see the Animal Links
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
The Typing of the Ghosts1. Length Strength
2. Fishy Measurement

3. Precise Measurements
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing 1. Add up the Money
HABITATS
*Extinct Animals (do any resemble animals we know today?)
1. KBears Animal Website
2.
3. National Geographic Videos
4. National Geographic Animal Info.
5. Enchanted Learning
(Click on a letter for an animal and find one!)
Biomes of the World More on Ecosystems
Ecosystems MovieExtinction Movie
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing 
Time; am and pm
Drag the Hands of the Clock
Time Quiz
HABITATS
*Extinct Animals (do any resemble animals we know today?)
1. KBears Animal Website
2.
3. National Geographic Videos
4. National Geographic Animal Info.
5. Enchanted Learning
(Click on a letter for an animal and find one!)
Biomes of the World More on Ecosystems
Ecosystems MovieExtinction Movie
# - Discuss

HM: Theme 4- Animal Habitats
All About Puffins
SCIENCE
3 States of MatterGases, Liquids and Solids
EnergyEnergy Sources Movie 2
Energy Station: A Burning Candle
Bill Nye-The Science Guy
(Click Episode Guide, Physical Science, Physics, Energy)
Introduction in Potential and Kinetic Energy
Rollercoaster simulation # - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
EnergyEnergy Sources Movie 2
Energy Station: A Burning Candle
Bill Nye-The Science Guy
(Click Episode Guide, Physical Science, Physics, Energy)
Introduction in Potential and Kinetic Energy
Rollercoaster simulation
PREFIXES/SUFFIXES
Prefixes (roots and Suffixes)Prefixes Say Plenty
Prefix Review

Prefixes Match Game
Suffixes Say Plenty
Prefix/Suffix Machine (May have to use
Suffix Game
# - Discuss
Adjectives and AdverbsComparative vs. Superlatives (more, -er; best, -biggest)
What is an Adverb?
Adverb Battleship
# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing 
1. Dividing with Remainders Visual
2. Draggable Division With Remainders
3.
Divison# - Discuss
Dance Mat Typing
What is the difference between a FACT and an OPINION?1. FACT vs. OPINION 1
2. FACT vs. OPINION 2
3. FACT vs. OPINION 3
# - Discuss
1. Biomes of the World 2. Another Biomes of the World Website!
3.
Aquatic Penguins3a. Underwater Creatures
4. Different Aquatic Animals
5. National Geographic
California Academy of Sciences# - Discuss

Spanish Place Names
Who Created the Missions?
Mission Dolores
California Missions
California Missions2
Illustrated Glossary
Photo Gallery
Dance Mat TypingSingular & Plural Possessives
More on Possessives
# - Discuss
Sample Business Letter
The Letter Generator- Write a Friendly letter and learn its parts
# - Discuss
Practicing Verb Tenses (use WORD document with the Past Tenses) Tenses of Swim
Single Digit Division Explanation
Single Digit Division #2 Explanation
Dividing with Remainders Visual
# - Discuss
1. What are NOUNS?
2.Quick Noun Practice
3.Catch(or don't catch the common nouns!)
4. Noun game (can be played by 2 people!)
5. More on Nouns
# - Discuss
Welcome Students! Explore the following websites and think about a topic to research and write about! Enjoy!1. The "Eight" Planets
1a. Melbourne Planetarium
1b. The Solar System (has audio explanations!)
2. The Apollo Astronauts
3. Astronaut Biographies
4. First woman in Space
5. First American woman in Space
6. The First Animals in Space
7. What Happens to our bodies in Space?
8. Space Exploration
9. Space FAQ
10. Hubblesite
# - Discuss

1. 3rd Grade @ Ivy Hill School
2. 3rd Grade in Amherst, MA
3. 3rd Grade at the Walnut Heights Elementary School
4. Hyperstudio Animal Reports
Endangered Animal Activities (When you are ALL DONE with your work)
# - Discuss
(Trumpeter Swan) 1. Enchanted Learning
2. Endangered/Extinct
3. Yahooligans Endangered Species

4. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
5. Red List of Threatened Species
# - Discuss

Directions: We are going to open up a WORD document I have created for you. You will use the link below to work on practice exercises and then type the contractions in a table!
Contraction Practice
# - Discuss
1. What are NOUNS?
2.Common vs. Proper Nouns
3.Quick Noun Practice
Ms. Mary- Multiple Meanings
Ms. Mary-The Solar System
2.Common vs. Proper Nouns
3.Quick Noun Practice
4.Catch(or don't catch the common nouns!)
5. Noun game (can be played by 2 people!)
# - Discuss
Welcome Students! Explore the following websites and think about a topic to research and write about! Enjoy!1. The "Ten" Planets
1a. Melbourne Planetarium
1b. The Solar System
Yahoo Maps
Houghton Mifflin Link

