Weather and Map Skills Websites!

While our weather unit has come to an end, here are some fun, interactive sites where your child can continue his/her learning!

E-Learning for Kids has a great game where you can practice reading the thermometer and predict weather:

Tony the Weather Forecaster

 Explore the 4 parts of the water cycle with Explorer Dan:

The Water Cycle

Ed-Heads has a game where you can learn how to report and predict the weather at the underground W.H.E.D. weather caves:

Weather Activities  

 
National Geographic has some Map Skills games:

Nat Geo Map Games

Lots of Maps Games--Try some out:

Maps Games


I hope these websites will provide you with some fun learning time, 2A kiddos!

Photos of our awesome Weather Lapbooks and 3-D U.S. Maps to come soon!

Arctic vs. Antarctic

We have been learning TONS of really cool information about the arctic and antarctic regions of the earth.

We have read several fiction and non-fiction books and are really enjoying reading about the animals that live on the North and South Poles.

Here are some fun websites that your child may want to explore more at home.

National Geographic Kids-Creature Feature

Plump and Perky Turkey activities!

Boy, I wish I had found this last week, but better late than never, I suppose!

The publisher of A Plump and Perky Turkey has some games and activities over at their website.  Check it out HERE.

And below, click to listen to the story on YouTube!

Author Study: Leo Lionni

This week we are reading Leo Lionni's The Extraordinary Egg.  The book is full of rich, robust vocabulary words and beautiful, unique illustrations.  Leo Lionni has many fabulous books.

Today we read Inch by Inch, which tied into not only our author study, but also our study of insect life cycles and our study of measurement in math!  Triple whammy!

Check out this great website about Leo Lionni's books:

Leo Lionni Site

Perimeter and Area Practice

Please check out the website below for some amazing practice calculating the perimeter of a shape (add all sides to find the distance AROUND) and finding the area of a shape (multiplying Length x Width to find the space INSIDE the shape).

AREA & PERIMETER WEBSITE

Please remember that time on this website can be counted toward your 45 minutes of weekly math practice--record in agenda to get credit!

Graphs Practice

This week we are reviewing what we learned about interpretating data and creating graphs. Here are some fun ways to practice what we've learned.




INTERPRET DATA

READING AND CREATING PICTOGRAPHS

DATA PICKING GAME


I hope you'll enjoy using some of these websites for Math Practice this week!

Can you believe it's already December tomorrow?!

Welcome 3D--class of 2009-2010!

Dear Students and Parents,

We have sure gotten off to a great start this school year! I look forward to getting to know each and everyone of my students and what unique gifts they have to share with our class.

Please take the time to "subscribe to" or "follow" our class blog, as this will be one of our main forms of communication this year in 3D.

I am working on an instruction sheet on how to subscribe that I will send home soon.

Thanks so much for your support as we partner together this year to help your children succeed!

Check out these great articles/videos from Dr. Schwall over at Cool Kids Channel:

About fairness between siblings:
http://www.coolkidschannel.com/parentingtips/siblings_fairness

About classroom behavior:
http://www.coolkidschannel.com/parentingtips/classroom_behavior

Back to school crash course:
http://www.coolkidschannel.com/parentingtips/back-to-school-crash-course