Blaine's Coding Game

Click on this website to see what Blaine created in code.

Blaine's Code Creation

Prefixes and Suffixes

Click on each link below to play suffix and prefix games.  Use these to help you learn the meanings of suffixes and prefixes. 

Learning Suffixes

Learning Prefixes

Short Circuit

Prefix and Suffix Game

COMMENT: Make a list of 6 words with prefixes and or suffixes.  Make sure to spell them correctly! 

Cultural Landscapes of Virginia

The Scots-Irish, English and Germans immigrated into Virginia. They brought with them their own cultures, ideas and beliefs as well as foods and the architecture of buildings.  See the pictures below and complete the cultural landscape sheet using these pictures for help. 

 The Irish Barns, homes and churches were white in color with thatched roofs. The wood beams were not exposed. 

 The English barns, homes and churches were tan in color with thatched roofs. The wood beams were exposed. 

 The German barns, homes and churches were white in color with red brick or stone roofs and the wooden beams were exposed. 

COMMENT: COMPARE AND CONTRAST THESE HOMES, BARNS AND CHURCHES WITH THOSE WE HAVE TODAY!  

Christmas

Click on this link to find lots of fun Christmas games.  Play as many as you would like.  Return to this post as often as you can to play these fun games. 

Christmas Games
COMMENT: What are you giving someone else for Christmas? 

Summarizing

Let's practice the skill of Summarizing!

Click on each link below. Do each one completely!  Comment when finished!

Summarizing Practice

Summarizing Practice 2

COMMENT:
Suppose you were writing a story. Tell the SOMEONE, WHAT they want to do, the BUT (problem), the SO (solution) and you may or may not include a SO.
You are not writing a story, just doing these parts.

Force, Energy and Motion

Do these activities and then comment:

Roller Coaster Activity

Forces In Motion

Friction

COMMENT:
What is a energy? What causes energy?

Thanksgiving

In class we will be learning the similarities and differences between the Jamestown Colony and the Plymouth Colony (where the First Thanksgiving occurred). Please share these with your family over the Thanksgiving dinner. 

Play these fun Thanksgiving games. 
Thanksgiving Games

COMMENT: What are you thankful for this holiday and why? 

Main Idea and Details Game

Play this game to practice Main Ideas and Details Game!

COMMENT:  What is hard for you with understanding Main Ideas? What is easy for you?  How can this improve your reading?

Review for Jamestown Test

Let's spend time today reviewing for your Jamestown founding test that will be tomorrow!  Click on each link and do the practice activity.  Notice the comment you are expected to complete at the bottom of this page. 

Jamestown Test Practice

Another Practice

Game 3

COMMENT: Why do you think the colony needed to have a government to lead it?  What would have happened if they had not? How do you feel the government should have been organized? 

Would You Have Survived?

Had you lived in the time of the early colonists, would you have survived?
What would you have done to help the colony or would you have been a lazy gentleman?

Play this game to see what John Smith did.

Adventures of John Smith

COMMENT: Answer the questions from above.

The Virginia Colony Government

Watch the video to see what you can learn about the House of Burgesses.  It is a great video with a review of what we have been learning. 

After watching, please comment. 

COMMENT:
If you had been elected a Burgess by the colonist what would you have wanted to government to be like and why?

The Charter

King James granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London so they could establish a colony in Jamestown. The charter was a document that stated that England would support a new colony for a while and the colonists would be granted the same rights as the people living in England at the time. 

New groups and organizations often have a charter that gives guidelines for the group. It states what they will do, how they will go about accomplishing the task and and rules they need to follow.  

Here is what the beginning of the charter granted to the Virginia Company of London looked like: 

Comment:

If you were to write a charter to establish a new colony, what would you include?  In your comment, write the first part of the charter as you think it should be. 

Random Acts of Kindess

Everyday in our classroom we share Random Acts of Kindnesses that we notice.  It is my hope that each of us will learn that helping others makes our classroom, our school, our world a better place!  

Watch these videos and take notice of the kind acts.  As you watch think of what you can do for someone else!  

You CAN change the world little act by little act! 

COMMENT: What can you do to help someone and make a difference? 

Virginia's Native People

Carefully look at this map!  What do you see? 

Click on each link and play the games. 

Indian Language Group Match

More Indian Language Group

Practice Quiz

Language Group Map

Watch this video:
Werowocomoco

Use this to help you remember:

Acronym to remember Language groups from west to east:

I  saw an Indian.

Iroquoian- Southwest
Siouan- Piedmont
Algonquian- Tidewater
Iroquoian- South

COMMENT:

Predict what you think will happen to the Native People living in Virginia when the Europeans arrive. Back up your prediction with facts you know. 

Moon Phases

We are learning the moon goes through phases based on the Earth's relationship to the moon.
Watch this video: 

Watch this second video:

Play the matching game at this link: Moon Phase Memory.

Play this game: Moon Phase order

COMMENT - After the video and playing the game, in the comments name 3 facts you learned about the moon and its' phases.

Welcome to Our Class Blog

Welcome to our class blog! 
This is a blog that will guide you throughout the year with different websites and ideas for learning.  You will follow this blog and you will comment to the questions in each blog post. 

Here are some rules about blogging:
1- to be safe use only initials of people in your comments
2- all comments will be approved by me before they are published on the blog
3- all comments must be something you would say aloud to someone, nothing private
4- write like you are writing a paragraph in class, use correct capitals and punctuation

Follow these rules and this will be a fun way to learn! 

Let's try commenting: 

In the comment section: 

Write at least 2 sentences telling what you like about 4th Grade so far this year. 

Your comment will appear once I approve it.