Weather And Seasons Some Of My Favorites

Tomorrow for Science class we are reviewing both what we learned about seasons, and clouds. I am always looking for new, and interesting sites to add to my favorite education sites at the bottom of this blog. I update it as often as I can, but sometimes they just sit in my favorites. Here are some favorite websites I use for teaching weather, and the seasons. The scholastic link is awesome, and if you don't already use it you should. The others are newer to me, and I have not had a chance to fully explore their whole sites. These too will be added to the bottom of this site for easy access to anyone who cares to use them. Over summer vacation I will be updating, and deleting any that are no longer working, or I have found to not be useful.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/k_2theme/seasons.htm
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/
http://illiniweather.com/pages/kids_weather_links.htm
http://www.theweatherchannelkids.com/


Lesson Plans For 05/18/10:

DJ:
Vocabulary
Math: Units of length
Cursive Writing
Science: Review of seasons, and clouds

Caitlin:
Tracing Practice
Printing Practice
Skip Counting
Math: Count and color
Phonics: Beginning sounds
Site Words
Reading: Choose one book from reading list
Science: The seasons and clouds

How To Draw Elves, Wind Part 2

Tomorrow for Science class we are continuing our studies on wind. Below is part two of the wind video, from last week. There are two others posted as well. These are great for supplemental activities, with reading, or other lessons. I have found a bunch of great new websites, with educational activities for kids, and they will be posted soon, at the bottom of this blog under my favorite education sites. If your kids love to draw, try some of these wonderful free drawing videos. The one shown, is how to draw elves. DJ will be attempting it tomorrow.

Lesson Plans For 12/15/09:

DJ:
How to draw elves
Science: Wind, and make a wind sock
Math: Multiplication, division, addition, subtraction
Cursive Writing
Language Arts: Suffixes, writing opinions, fact and opinion
Sign Language: Alphabet

Caitlin:
Reading: HOP The Fog
Site Words
Math: Adding to ten using coins
Learning about graphs: Worksheet
Sign Language: Alphabet
Alphabet Book: Letter P
Printing Practice

Writing Prompts For Each Month, 4th Grade

Tomorrow is test day, here at Melissa's Homeschool. So I get to share a few other things with you, rather than just our lesson plans. I found the coolest site where daily writing prompts are already made out for you. I do not use every one, because there are other writing assignments I want DJ to do, and we don't do writing every day this year. They are good though, and you can find them here. If your child needs ideas for writing, check them out, or needs a little extra practice after school hours.

I also found a cool website where your youngster can learn First Aid for free. There is an age limit, so be sure to check it out. I can not tell you how important I feel it is for children to know basic First Aid. How, and when to call 911, should also be taught at a very young age that is appropriate. We will be adding it to our Health Curriculum, next year, when DJ is 10. I hope it will still be available by then, for now you can certainly use it.

Tomorrow is also Fun Friday, and DJ will be doing his writing assignment around our topic. If you would like to join our Blogging for Fun group, click on the green box, in the left hand column.

As soon as my printer is back up, and running again, I will be scanning some really cool Halloween recipes, from one of my favorite specialty books. Your kids will love these.

We have no school on Monday.