Look at this link!
Check out the Dolch Word List.
Practice and Play Games.
Happy Learning!
Another good spelling site below.
Black Poetry Day
October 17th is the birth anniversary of the first published African-American poet, Jupiter Hammon, who was born into slavery in 1711, probably on Long Island. Consequently, October 17 is also Black Poetry Day.
Famous black poets include:
Maya Angelou
Sterling A. Brown
Lucille Clifton
Toi Derricotte
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Angelina W. Grimke
Jupiter Hammon
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Anne Spencer
Ntozake Shange
Natasha Trethewey
Margaret Walker
Phillis Wheatley (one of the first female black poets)
Story from my home state of Kentucky
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Pattern Blocks
This is a great site for working with pattern blocks. Click on the "activities" or "parent/teacher" tabs to read about things you can do with the pattern blocks. HAVE FUN!!!
Essential Question: What is an acrostic poem?
Click here to practice writing acrostic poems: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/
Note: Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g. conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
The First Automobile
J. Frank Duryea was born on October 8, 1869. He and his brother Charles, became the first Americas to invent the first ever gasoline powered automoblie in the United States. Please visit the site below to learn more and view more pictures.
For homework, draw a picture of this car and bring it to class. You could also write a paragraph explaining how this car is different from the car your parents drive today. http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_1272.html
American Bandstand
October 7, 1957 marks the day when Bandstand was first part of a local program called WFIL-TV, Channel 6 in Philadephia. Click on the link to watch more and complete the asignment.
Place each word in ABC order and write what part of speech they are.(In class the words were misspelled and the students used the elctronic calculator to correct spellings before doing the assignment.) The words are: American, aired, bandstand, national, Philadephia, televised, host, show, program, and Clark
First Motion Picture
The first motion picture was shown on October 6, 1889 by inventor Thomas Edison.
In class today, we wrote cinquain poems.
Below are a few student samples:
Car
Fast Cool
Vrooming Going Wrecking
They are very awesome!
Vehicle
Rambo
Fast Awesome
Driving Killing Saving
Makes me feel excited!
Marine
Birds
Small Animal
Eating Flying Sleeping
They are so cool.
Fowl
Tim and Max
Tim and Max
Tim has a dog.
The dog is Max.
Max can sit.
Max can hop. Max can run.
Max can not stop.
Max hops in the mud.
Mud is not fun.
Tim can fix the mud.
Tim gets Max wet.
It is fun to hop.
It is fun to run.
Tim and Max do not hop in the mud.
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