EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT

Here is your opportunity for some extra credit!

Similar to the partner work you did today in class. You are going to research an instrument ON YOUR OWN and create a presentation using Prezi or Google Drive Presentations at home. Please ensure to have the following information on each slide:

1) Name of Instrument, Your Name, Date, Picture of Instrument
2) History of Instrument (When & Where it was invented, who invented it)
3) Materials it can be made of/Description of the Instrument
4) Family of Instruments it belongs to
5) Famous Musicians who have played it
6) What sound does it make/ How is it played
7) Pictures and Media (Video)
8) Sources Used

Enjoy!

Last Week of School

Hello students and parents!

Please do not forget to bring in the $5 for pizza and sign up for one additional item (side dish, plasticware, beverages, etc.). Your son or daughter has probably already signed up for something - check in with them or email me at: ajordan@straphaella.org to verify. Our class Christmas party will be on Friday @ 11am. Students may bring in non-perishable additional items before then to store in the classroom if they would like. For break, students have a ready long to complete each week, in addition to 7 days of their choice wherein they are asked to play mathletics & ticket-to-read for 30 minutes each. Please ensure that your child is completing the necessary logs daily.

Music Assignment

In preparation for our class field trip with the 3rd and 4th grades to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, we are beginning to learn about the different instruments and their families. You will be completing presentations in pairs wherein you are assigned an instrument and must then research the instrument to present to the class. You may present using a poster, Prezi, or Google Drive Presentations (your gmail accounts). The following websites will have plenty of information that will help you on your research assignment:

Americans for the Arts
American Music Conference
The American Music Education Initiative
ArtsEdge
Arts Education Partnership
Awesome Library
British Journal of Music Education
CABC (Center for Arts in the Basic Curriculum)
CARTS: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students
Children's Music Workshop
Music Resources
Education World
Kidzone!

More websites can be found on the "Web Sites" Handout given to you in class! Make sure you look at all of the websites!

The following piece of music is what we will be studying & hearing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall:

Computer Lab Webquest

Hello, students!

Today we’ll be studying the different types of clouds within our unit on weather and the Water Cycle. Please go through the following websites in order to conduct your research. Once you are finished, please scroll down to the e-document at the bottom of the page to record your findings.

The five types of clouds we’ll be studying today are: Cumulus, Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulonimbus, and Fog.

Happy cloud hunting!

• Click here to learn about the different types of clouds: low-clouds, mid-level clouds, and high clouds
• Click here to listen to a cool song about clouds
• Click here to learn about how fog is formed
• Click here to learn all about clouds and how they form
• Click here to read details about the different types of clouds
• Click here to learn how clouds form, how they cause chaos, and impact our lives
• Click here to play cloud games
• Click here to take a quiz on clouds
• Download the PPT here and read slides 1-20

Watch the following Youtube videos on the different types of clouds:

Water Cycle Webquest

Use the following link to access the Water Cycle Webquest:

http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/mitchemh/502/webquest/intro.html

Make sure to answer the following questions at the bottom of the blog in the Google Form:

• Explain how the Water Cycle works.

• Define evaporation.

• What are the three process that occur to form clouds?

• What is condensation?

• List 3 forms of precipitation.

• Why is the Water Cycle important to life on earth?

Here are more fun websites that will help you to find more information about the Water Cycle:

1. http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/pilot/water_cycle/grabber2.html
2. http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/concepts.htm
3. http://www.kidzone.ws/water/
4.http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/ecosystems/water-cycle.htm
5. http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/weather/thewatercycle.html
6. http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/
7. http://wwwk12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/pilot/water_cycle/index.html

The Cardiovascular System

Hello students,

In Science we are learning about the Cardiovascular System. The following website has awesome games and exciting activities to help you in becoming more familiar with your heart!

Heart Games & Activities

Social Studies Test & EC Opportunity

Dear students,

If you wish to gain extra credit in Social Studies, please complete the Chapter 3 Review on pages 118-119 and turn it in by this Friday, October 18th.

Your Chapter 3 Test will be on Friday, Please study all of the lesson review questions throughout the chapter.

Here is the link to the fun blood activity we did in class:
Blood Content Activity

For extra credit, get ready to memorize and perform the following rap song to your class!
Or you can just use it for review :-)

Circulatory Rap Song

The Circulatory System

Hello students!

We have now learned about the Digestive System, Respiratory System, and Excretory System! Next stop on our body systems adventure is the Circulatory System! Today you'll be completing a web quest wherein you research specific information about the Circulatory System in order to better familiarize yourself with its processes.

Using the questions that have been given to you in class, refer to the following websites to hunt down your answers!!

Circulatory System Web quest
Red Arteries and Blue Veins Video
What's blood made up of?
Circulatory System Video
Heart & Circulation Activity
http://www.kidsbiology.com/human_biology/circulatory-system.php
http://kids.discovery.com/tell-me/science/body-systems/your-cardiovascular-system
http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/heart.html