The Alaskan Iditarod

ATTENTION 5TH GRADE STUDENTS: Get ready to take an incredible journey through Alaska with a musher and his or her dog team. The study of the Alaskan Iditarod was a favorite among many students from last year! I love teaching about the Iditarod and enjoy this unit of study. I can't wait to experience this amazing journey through rugged terrain and bone chilling temperatures with all of you. The official site of the Iditarod can be found here: http://www.iditarod.com/

Other Useful Sites

Curriculum Connections - http://www.wadsworth.k12.oh.us/administrativeDepartment.aspx?aid=40

Glog- http://jacinday.glogster.com/jacindaiditarod/

Thursday, March 3

Iditarod- http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/iditarod-sneak-peek.html

A Musher's Life- http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/iditarod-a-mushers-life.html

Doggy Sweaters- http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/iditarod-insider-doggy-sweaters.html

Friday, March 4

Choose your musher! Lance Mackey will be the musher for the entire 5th grade. We did this last year and he won for the fourth year in a row! Will he make it five years in 2011? You also cannot choose Mitch Seavey. Mitch is the musher I chose the last two years, so I am going to stick with the same one! Go to this site to choose your musher and remember to print a picture:http://www.iditarod.com/race/musherlisting.html

Mushing Terminology- http://www.iditarod.com/learn/terminology.html

Student Characteristics

https://ddip.lth5.k12.il.us/surveys/LoginStudent.aspx?su=26&sc=1282

Technology Frequency of Use

http://ddip.lth5.k12.il.us/surveys/LoginStudent.aspx?su=18&sc=1282

Student Technology Attitudes

http://ddip.lth5.k12.il.us/surveys/LoginStudent.aspx?su=16&sc=1282

Personal Tech Skills

https://ddip.lth5.k12.il.us/surveys/LoginStudent.aspx?su=17&sc=1282

Student Technology Test

https://ddip.lth5.k12.il.us/surveys/LoginStudent.aspx?su=40&sc=1282

https://ddip.lth5.k12.il.us/surveys/LoginStudent.aspx?su=40&sc=1282

ISAT PRACTICE

Use the following link to do the ISAT practice. Once completing the fifth grade practice tests. You may work on fourth or sixth grade tests.

http://metacat2.com/iltestlinks.html

Prefixes and Suffixes

Here are some websites to help with prefixes and suffixes.

Prefix Matching- http://www.manythings.org/wbg/prefixes-mw.html

Make New Words with Prefixes- http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=1&act=3&que=1

Prefixes- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/spelling/play.shtml

Suffix Matching- http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/dragflip.asp?filename=kderittesuffix

Welcome 2011

WoW! It is hard to believe the first semester is over. I hope everyone had an excellent holiday break. I enjoyed spending every minute with our daughter. She will be six months old already on January 24. Over the next two months we will be working very hard to prepare for the ISAT. February 28 will be here before we know it! I really enjoy my class and hope they continue to keep up the good work.

Christmas Around the World- Germany

We are very excited to begin a Christmas Around the World Unit for all fifth graders. My group will be focusing on Christmas in Germany. I have many exciting activities planned as we learn about customs, traditions, foods, legends, etc.

Monday, November 29- Create suitcases with map, flag, passport, and plane ticket.

Tuesday, November 30- We will be using this website for a quick over of Christmas in Germany.

http://www.theholidayspot.com/christmas/worldxmas/germany.htm

Wednesday, December 1- Begin reading Christmas in Today's Germany