Kennedy's Chronicles

Snacks for the CRCT

In addition to the food donations for the CRCT Super Bowl (mentioned below), we also try to provide a small snack for each student to give them an extra boost in the morning. We need volunteers to send in a healthy snack to share with the class. Juice boxes, small water bottles, fruit, granola bars, pretzels, fruit snacks, raisins, etc. are perfect. Mrs. Dimmett is coordinating the snacks for our class. If you would like to send something in, please email her at cdimmett@bellsouth.net.

We will need snacks for
Wednesday, April 23rd
Thursday, April 24th
Friday, April 25th
Monday, April 28th
Tuesday, April 29th

Thanks again!

CRCT Super Bowl

On Monday, April 21st, we will hold a CRCT Super Bowl in our class. Over the course of the day, we will play a football review game and talk about good test-taking tips. For lunch, we will have a cook-out with hot dogs, chips, soda, etc. If you would like to donate an item, please let your son or daughter know so that we can have students volunteer to bring in items.

Here are the items we will need:
Cans of Sprite
Large Bottle of Ketchup
Large Bottle of Mustard
Jar of Relish
Bags of Chips
Paper Plates and Napkins
Hot Dog Buns
(Miss Kennedy will provide the hotdogs!)

 

Math Review with Pizzazz!

With the CRCT right around the corner, now is the time to review some of the math concepts we have discussed earlier in the year. Sounds like a lot of fun, right? Okay, maybe not, but your opinion might change once you've played the games on www.iknowthat.com. Try them out to review what you've already learned and have some fun at the same time!

Area and Measurement
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=BluePrints

Fractions
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=FractionGame&AutoLaunch=%2fcom%2fApp%3fFile%3dFractionGame.htm%26Type%3dS%26App%3dFractionGame%26Topic%3dFractionDecimalMatch

Decimal Place Value
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WWQuizDoc&XTRA=iActID%3D380146%26

Precents, Decimals, and Fractions
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WWQuizDoc&XTRA=iActID%3D369635%26

Decimals
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WWQuizDoc&XTRA=iActID%3D351234%26

Graphs
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WWQuizDoc&XTRA=iActID%3D485448%26

Percent
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WWQuizDoc&XTRA=iActID%3D337558%26

Area of Squares and Rectangles
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WWQuizDoc&XTRA=iActID%3D439079%26

Pi
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WWQuizDoc&XTRA=iActID%3D553643%26

Capacity
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WWQuizDoc&XTRA=iActID%3D516282%26

The Great Depression

Use this link to read letters from children that were written to Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression.

http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm

http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm

Wanda Wordhead and the Three Bookworms

Looking for the podcast version of our book? I'm working out a few kinks, but it should be available soon!

Stock Market

In Social Studies we are talking about how the stock market works. This link will allow you to see the changes in the stock that you bought: http://www.prongo.com/stock/index.pl

Chick-Fil-A Night for Our Class

Tonight will be a blast, celebrating at Chick-fil-a together. I hope to see you all there! The fun begins at 6:oo PM. Even the cow will be there!

Division Practice Games

Knowing your division facts is a key to success with fractions. Use these practice games to become a master of fractions. Click on "Learning Links" on the side of this website and scroll to the bottom to find games to practice multiplication facts too.

http://www.dositey.com/addsub/mystery1D.htm -Practice your division facts and reveal a mystery picture.

http://www.aaamath.com/div39j-divall.html - Time yourself and see how many division facts you can answer correctly.

http://home.indy.rr.com/lrobinson/mathfacts/mathfacts.html - How many division facts can you answer in 1 minute? Try to beat your last record! (Be sure to change the game to division before you get started.)

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/mathsdiv.html - How long will it take to answer 20 division problems correctly?

http://www.math-drills.com/division.shtml - You can print out practice worksheets from this website.

Practice Typing

Today we talked about the importance of learning to type. Many students are choosing to type the final draft of their persuasive writing, but sometimes it's tough to type a long piece of writing when your typing skills aren't up to par. Here are some fun practice games to help familiarize kids with the keyboard.

http://www.gamequarium.com/keyboarding.htm

http://www.freetypinggame.net/play.asp

http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/keyboarding.htm

http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/keyboarding.htm