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Video for my Budding Ornithologist:)

New Year’s Cyberhunt

1.  Who is Father Time?

2.  What year did the first ball drop in Times Square?

3.  What does Auld Lang Syne mean?

4.  What is the most popular New Year’s Day parade?

5.  In what state is a pine cone dropped on New Year’s eve?

6.  In what city is a New Year’s countdown done with an elevator?

7.  What state drops a purple beach ball decorated with Christmas lights?

8.  In the ancient Roman calendar, when did the new year being?

9.  What New Year tradition began in Greece around 600 BC?

10. When is Chinese New Year in 2012?

11.  What is the Jewish New Year called?

12.  What does Rosh Hashanah mean? 

 

Activities for the New Years celebration can be found here.

Keep your brain sharp

Traveler IQ Challenge

Angles Jeopardy Game

Angles Jeopardy Game is a fun way to assess your knowledge about measuring and classifying angles. The game has a single-player mode and a multi-player feature.

Build a Roller Coaster

It’s your time for some fun learning!  Build your own roller coaster.  Who knew physics could be so much fun thanks to Discovery Kids?

Volcano Explorer

Have you ever wondered what it would be like inside a volcano?  Well, you can by playing this game by Discovery Kids.

Sugar, Sugar – Christmas Edition

http://www.mathplayground.com/logic_sugarsugar_christmas.html

Birmingham Audubon Society

I hope you enjoyed this past week’s mini field trip.  The Bird Basics classes were awesome.  These are just a few of the pictures I took.

 

Think Like an Ornithologist

I hope you are enjoying our new unit on ornithology.  As you know from our Edmodo work, that an ornithologist is someone who studies birds.

This week, we will have a guest speaker from the Birmingham Audubon Society and she will be talking about Birding Basics.  We will also take part in a few project throughout the year related to this.  I hope you are are going to enjoy our bird houses and the bird counts in which we are going to participate.

I came across this very cool film – well, it’s really a lot of shots from a camera and turned into a film.  It will look slow at first but give it time.  You will not be disappointed.

Fling the Teacher

I was reminded by a couple of my former students of how much fun these are to play.  Most of these are from other sites, so if there is anything incorrect, don’t blame me:)
Here’s the Roman Gods and Goddesses one

Here’s a language arts one

One on math 

Now, one on Native Americans 

Here’s one on 2D and 3D Shapes 

Here’s one on multiplication 

 Oooh, Equivalent fractions  I know you LOVE equivalent fractions:)

Solve the equation for your beginning algebra lovers

Text features - your teacher will love you for this

AND your social teacher will love this Westward Expansion one

Estimating lengths

 Ancient Rome

The Revolutionary War 

Thanksgiving Fun Mad Lib

Parts of an Airplane

Have you ever wanted to learn about the parts of an airplane?  This is a pretty nice site by NASA.

Snoring Logic Game

When you have completed your Edmodo assignment, you may work on this logic game.