American History Review Videos

These videos may help you remember the highlights of American history.  Fifth graders are responsible for knowing about events and people from the Civil War to the present.

American History in 10 Minutes

A History of the U.S. in 11 Minutes

Bill of Rights Quiz

Click HERE for a good practice quiz on the Bill of Rights.

Quia

Today you are going to learn about Quia and begin taking quizzes on Number the Stars.  Please only quiz on the chapters that you have finished reading!

To begin:

1. Go to https://www.quia.com/web. 
2. Search for your teacher (Haley Dyer).
3. Click on our class.
4. Click on English/Language Arts.
5. Click on the Number the Stars quiz that you would like to take.

*Your username is your first & last name with no capitalization or spaces followed by the number 543 (for example, sammystudent543) and your password is your 5-digit number for Successmaker, etc.

Brainpop Extra Credit

BRAINPOP EXTRA CREDIT:  Any and all quizzes are due by Thursday, 3/10.  (I told the students in class today that they could work on these Thursday afternoon.  If I haven't received your scores by 8 AM Friday, they won't count.)  

Students may come to the room or stay in at recess to do these if they don't have easy access after school.

A screenshot of your results (with the test title visible too) is the most effective way to send me your score.  You can try Brainpop email but I have had trouble with them in the past.

·      Science: Diversity of Life: Classification; Six Kingdoms; Vertebrates; Invertebrates; Seed Plants

·      Social Studies: World History: World War II; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Adolf Hitler; Anne Frank; United Nations; Cold War; Communism

·      Math: Numbers & Operations: Adding & Subtracting Fractions; Multiplying & Dividing Fractions

·      English: Grammar: Antonyms, Synonyms, and Homonyms; Subject-Verb Agreement

World War II Videos & Anne Frank

(This post will be updated from time to time and automatically moved to the top of the news feed.)

This rather dry video does a great job of explaining and showing the Nazi invasion and expansion of Europe.  It is about 15 minutes long.  Click HERE to access.

This video shows how Europe changed each day during WWII.  (Some days had no change and long periods where nothing happened, but then suddenly lots of activity occurred.)  We only watched about the first 3:30 of about 10.  Click HERE.

Here is a similar video that we have not watched in class: WWII in Europe in 7 Minutes.

We also explore the Anne Frank Museum, the Secret Annex at www.annefrank.org.

The Tuskegee Airmen and Rosie the Riveter videos

This post will be updated from time to time as we continue our studies.

WWII Vocabulary

*It is your responsibility to know the meaning of these terms.  How you choose to study to learn them is up to you!  We may or may not cover all of this information this week.  Students are not expected to know this information before it is discussed in class, but these are the key terms in our WWII unit.

World War II

Vocabulary	People	Places
isolationism Axis Powers Allied Powers D-Day VE Day VJ Day Holocaust atomic bomb anti-Semitism rationing United Nations elite human rights charter	Emperor Hirohito Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Joseph Stalin Rosie the Riveter Tuskegee Airmen	Europe Asia Japan Germany Italy England France Pacific Theater Pearl Harbor Iwo-Jima Normandy Hiroshima Nagasaki

Great Depression and New Deal Videos

{Unfortunately we have no control over what ads History.com has linked to the videos.  I encourage the kids to mute their volume until the video starts.}

Dust Storms Strike America

Black Blizzard

The New Deal

FDR Creates Social Security

TVA: Nature's Power Harnessed

Panama Canal Links

Today we watched the first video about the Panama Canal, and you might be interested in the other videos that Andrew Y. found to share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTIndhU8-DA

http://www.klru.org/episode/american-experience/the-panama-canal/

http://www.thirteen.org/programs/the-roosevelts-an-intimate-history/education-clip-theodore-roosevelt-and-the-panama-canal/

http://www.c-span.org/video/?320794-1/panama-canal-construction

2/23-27

Welcome back!  I hope you enjoyed our unexpected winter "break!"  When I know the system's make up plan, I will be sure to share.

Since we are "off" of our usual schedule, here is important info for the coming week.
Mon:
AM
Study for spelling, vocabulary, and story tests WED.
Informational non-fiction genre reports are due by Friday if they haven't already been turned in.
FYI: We are beginning our Civil Rights Movement students in social studies and finishing ch. 6 (multi-cellular organisms) in science.

Tues:
IF WE DO NOT HAVE SCHOOL, PLEASE READ SCI CH 6, LESSON 3 (p. 296-299) AND WORK ON AM!
Finish WOWs.
Study for spelling, vocabulary, and story tests WED.
Study for Unit 5 math test Thurs.

Wed.
*Spelling, vocabulary, and story tests
Study for Unit 5 math test Thurs.
Study for Ch. 6 science test Fri.

Thurs.
*Unit 5 math test
(We may get new spelling/vocabulary today- and we may not!  We will work to get back on our "regular" schedule Mon.-Fri. with these assignments.)
Finish non-fiction genre report!
Study for Ch. 6 science test Fri.

Fri.
*Ch. 6 science test

Next Monday 3/2 is an early release day for students (with dismissal around 11:30) for parent-teacher conferences.  Breakfast & lunch will be served at school.  If I have not yet contacted you about a conference and you would like to request one, please let me know.  Time is very limited, but I will do my best to accommodate you.

Brainpop Assignment

Don't forget about your ABC order (due Tues.) and Brainpop assignment (due Wed.)!  Complete info can be found HERE.  Have a great long weekend!

Mission US Interactive History Website

These missions look like they will be lots of fun to work through!
Mission US: An Interactive Way to Learn History

(This link can easily be found in the Social Studies tab, above.)

Sci/SS Brainpop Assignemnt

Brainpop Movies & Quizzes

*Please go to Brainpop.com to watch the following movies and take the quizzes.  Record your grade for your quiz here.  Our username is unionco with the password panthers.

Test scores are due no later than Wednesday, 2/18/15.  If you cannot access Brainpop outside of school, feel free to come to the classroom during your recess time or early in the mornings (after 7:30) any day EXCEPT Tuesday.

SOCIAL STUDIES: U.S. History

Korean War               __________%

Vietnam War             __________%

Cold War                    __________%

SCIENCE: Diversity of Life

Six Kingdoms             __________%

Vertebrates                __________%

Invertebrates                        __________%

*Classification            __________% *BONUS

This Week's ELA & More

Week 3.5

Greek and Latin word parts #5: graph and scrib/script 

graph = __________________________________________   

 scrib/script = __________________________________________

Monday: Copy your spelling words into your agenda in ABC order.  Match the spelling word to its correct vocabulary meaning.

**If you made less than an 85 on last week’s vocabulary test, you are required to write sentences with this week’s words (due Thursday).

**If you made less than an 85 on last week’s spelling test, you must complete a spelling choice with this week’s words.

Remember that you will need to be able to use these words in context for your test, not just match the word to the definition!

1.       biography                   _____ writing about a person’s life written by that person

2.       autobiography          _____ the writing of one’s own name/signature

3.       bibliography              _____ the written list of all the books used in a report or book

4.       paragraph                  _____ a book written about a person’s life

5.       homograph                _____ mapmaking; the writing involved in making maps or charts

6.       photography              _____ a section of writing that has a topic and concluding sentence

7.       autograph                   _____ record player; a device that turns the writing on records into sound

8.       phonograph               _____ the use of light to record an image using a camera

9.       seismograph              _____ a device that writes down (records) the movements of the earth

10.   cartography               _____ a word written the same way as another word but having a different

 meaning

                                       

                                                    a short dedication written in a book           

11.    script                           _____ or engraved on something, such as a coin or monument

12.    describe                     _____ a piece of writing; a book

13.    subscription             _____ P.S.; a short bit of writing after a letter is finished

14.    scribble                      _____ a piece of paper a doctor writes to get medicine at a pharmacy

15.    inscription                 _____ sloppy writing that is hard to read

16.    transcribe                  _____ a person who writes things down

17.    manuscript               _____ a set of papers with writing that will be read and acted out

18.    scribe                          _____ to write down or record; to translate

19.   prescription               _____ a written agreement to buy a magazine/newspaper for a set period of time

20.    postscript                  _____ to say or write down how something or someone looks; to use

 adjectives in writing

*WOWs are due Wednesday!

*February’s genre is informational non-fiction (NOT biographies/autobiographies).  Please fill out the top portion of your genre project BEFORE you read the book you select.

                                                                                                                                    OVER

We will be reading the story “The Unbreakable Code” in our Treasures book this week.  You will have a vocabulary test over the following words from the story.  (Be sure to read the story on Tuesday if you are unable to read with us in class.)  It is a good idea for everyone to read the story at least twice.

1.    enlisted: (v) joined the military voluntarily

2.    invasion: (n) entering of an army into a region to conquer it

3.    location: (n) an exact position or place

4.    corridor: (n) a long, narrow hallway or passageway

5.    shield: (n) a person or thing that protects against danger, injury, or distress

6.    sagged: (v) drooped down in the middle from weight

7.    reservation: (n) land set aside by a government for a special purpose, such as for Native American tribes to live on

8.    creased: (adj) characterized by lines or marked by wrinkling

Tested Skills: Generating questions & author’s perspective

Grammar Focus: Comparative Adjectives

MATH:  Fraction operations (Module 13 assessment Wed.; Module 14 and Unit 4 Assessment)

SCIENCE: Multicellular organisms (Ch. 6: grouping living things/kingdoms; vertebrates/invertebrates; plants)

SOCIAL STUDIES: The Cold War and the 1950s

WWII Vocabulary

*It is your responsibility to know the meaning of these terms.  How you choose to study to learn them is up to you!  We will NOT cover all of this information this week.

World War II

Vocabulary	People	Places
isolationism Axis Powers Allied Powers D-Day VE Day VJ Day Holocaust atomic bomb anti-Semitism rationing United Nations elite human rights charter	Emperor Hirohito Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Joseph Stalin Rosie the Riveter Tuskegee Airmen	Europe Asia Japan Germany Italy England France Pacific Theater Pearl Harbor Iwo-Jima Normandy Hiroshima Nagasaki

12/3

Finish spelling & vocab. choices.
Finish New Deal programs (explanations and illustrations).

New Deal Programs

Social Security

A feature of the New Deal that provided income for elderly people and people with disabilities.

CCC Civilian Conservation Corp

A New Deal Program that preseved natural resources, including soil conservation, tree planting and flood control

WPA Works Progress Administration

A New Deal Program that built highways, roads, bridges, public buildings, parks, and airports. It paid artist for their work.

TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

A New Deal Program that built dams throughout seven states to control flooding and create electricity

THE NEW DEAL

The program that I would have been most interested in working in ...

Computer Group Today

Brainpop.com- Social Studies- U.S. History- Harlem Renaissance and Jazz

     Science- Energy- Electric Circuits

SS Ch. 5 & 6 Review Quizlet

Click HERE for Ch. 5 & 6 Quizlet to review for your test.

Computer Lab 5/6

It's time to take the SRI to show how you've grown as a reader this year.  Use the bookmarked page in computer lab.  Your username and password are both 12345uc (but of course you use your personal number).

When you have successfully completed it, go to Brainpop.com to review more SS. (Scroll down to see the complete list.)

Centers Tuesday & Social Studies Brainpop Videos

*SS Newpapers

*Frog Games

*SS "Little Readers"

*AM

*Computer Center: Go to OAS to take a social studies review test: 5thSSReview04_HD5.
Then watch any of these that you can.  (This is a really long list!)
Social Studies:
U.S History:

• Civil War Causes
• Slavery
• Civil War
• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass
• Underground Railroad
• Westward Expansion
• Wounded Knee Massacre
• World War I
• Jazz
• Harlem Renaissance
• Women's Suffrage   
• Great Depression
• Great Depression Causes
• New Deal
• World War II
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Cold War
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• Civil Rights
• Brown vs. BOE
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Jackie Robinson
• John F. Kennedy
• Cesar Chavez
• September 11th

U.S. Government and Law:

• Branches of Government
• Bill of Rights
• Presidential Power
• U.S. Constitution

Economics:

• Assembly Line
• Banking
• Budgets
• Communism
• Stock Market
• Supply and Demand

Geography:

• Map Skills
• Time Zones
• Continents of the World

Social Studies Economics Lesson

For our social studies lesson today, you are going to learn about economics by playing some games.  Please start with "Money Metropolis" (on the left sidebar or on the games drop-down menu).  Click HERE to get started!