House Voting

Alright guys! Click HERE to vote for the houses!

Fractions Practice

Click here to play some great fraction games

November Newsletter

Subtraction with Regrouping-- resta con reagrupación

Click here to watch a video in Spanish about subtraction with regrouping. 

Haga clic aquí para ver un video sobre la resta.

Parent Information

It was lovely seeing so many of you at conferences on Thursday. If you couldn't make it, I hope to see you next time.

Parents have had many questions about how to join parent portal, you can find that

information here:

https://www.knoxschools.org/aspeninfo

If you want to stay up to date on Inskip events you can always check out the Inskip home page:

Inskip Home Page

Some of you ask for help for your child in reading and/or math. 

Your child has an account at https://login.i-ready.com/ and this program is paid for through our school. The instructional activities on this site are tailored to meet the needs of your child.

Some of you have asked for math worksheets for your child. You can print those at the following site:

http://www.commoncoresheets.com/

Also readworks.org is an excellent site to find fiction and nonfiction pieces for your kid to practice reading.

Another excellent website is https://www.khanacademy.org/

Book Recommendations for 5th and 6th Graders

Click here for some great book recommendations for this age group: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/5th-and-6th-grade

How do weighted grades work?

You can read about how weighted grades work here: https://slhps-help-ca.schoolloop.com/weighting

Student Poetry Contest

Student Poetry Contest
Cash Prizes!

You could win $500

Your poem needs to be at least 2 lines long and no longer than 20 lines long.

You can turn your poems into me by November 8, 2017


You can find more information here: https://www.scholasticpublishing.org/

Multiplying with Area Models

Watch a video here:
Multiplying with area models

Area Method Tutorial: HERE

Numbers and Operations Quiz

Click HERE to take the quiz on Numbers and Operations!

Math Quick Quiz

Take this quiz by yourself:


Math Quiz, Place Value

Student Technology Survey

Please click HERE to take the Student Technology Survey.


Student Technology Survey

Learning More Every Day

MATH

Your teacher may have set up an account for you at Kahn Academy. If so, click here to log in:

Kahn Academy Login


Su profesor puede haber creado una cuenta para usted en Kahn Academy. Si es así, haga clic aquí para iniciar sesión:

Kahn Academy Login

SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE/READING

The following website has books about science and social studies. Plug in your headphones, and follow along while they rood they book. This is a great way to learn more about how to pronounce words, while learning more about science and social studies. 

Pebble Go

El siguiente sitio web contiene libros sobre ciencias y estudios sociales. Enchufe sus auriculares, y siga adelante mientras que rood que libro. Ésta es una gran manera de aprender más sobre cómo pronunciar palabras, mientras que aprende más sobre ciencia y estudios sociales.

Pebble Go

READING

This website has several books that you can listen to in English. The words will be highlighted as you read. There are lots of fun books to choose from. 

http://www.starfall.com/

Este sitio web tiene varios libros que puedes escuchar en inglés. Las palabras se resaltarán a medida que lea. Hay un montón de libros divertidos para elegir.

http://www.starfall.com/

Cells

Click HERE to watch a catchy song to help you learn all about the cell parts.

Inskip Elementary

Important dates and information can always be found at our school website:

Inskip Elementary Website


You can also follow Inskip Elementary on Facebook, we are Inskip Elementary  or on Twitter @InskipE


The Knox County Schools Calendar can be found here: Knox County Schools Calendar

Hannah and Laila

https://docs.google.com/a/knoxschools.org/presentation/d/1Yxr2F12yBsleR0luXK-Y1rMJC6fNxVtYrZUNRjIC0OA/edit?usp=sharing

Introduction to Ancient History

Take this quiz on The Introduction of Ancient History

Click HERE

Classifying Triangles

Your assignment today:


Use the website below to create a poster to model how to classify scalene, equilateral, and isosceles triangles.

Triangle Tutorial Website Here

Classifying 2D Shapes

Click HERE to play a game classifying two dimensional shapes

Science Standards Review

Plant/Animal Cells

Biology for Kids

Test yourself on organelles

Plant and Animal Cells

Symbiosis

Brainpop

Kids Search

Loads of Information about Symbiotic Relationships

Food Chain and Food Webs

Food Chains and Food Webs for Kids

More about Food Chains

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis for Kids

Photosynthesis

Heredity- Inherited Traits

Brainpop

Heredity Patterns

Another Teacher's Website with lots of links

Animal Adaptations

Animal Adaptations Website

More about animal adaptations

Planets

http://www.planetsforkids.org

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/space/what-is-a-planet/#planetary-lineup.jpg

Constellations- Star Charts/Telescopes

What are star charts?

http://www.ducksters.com/science/physics/constellations.php

Earth- Tectonic Plates

http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0043-plate-tectonics.php

Earth Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

Atmosphere and how the ocean changes things

Atmosphere for Kids

Understanding Atmospheric Pressure

Energy- potential, kinetic and heat transfer

Potential and Kinetic Energy for Kids

A Lesson on Energy

Gravity

Gravity for Kids

Gravity for Kids

Surface Area and Gravity

Surface Area and Gravity for Kids

Chemistry Quiz

Take this quiz  


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScd-q1LBEEYDDEUEY3dRTHYPZx5zdtYyuYAKRSHjX1SzceU1A/viewform?usp=sf_link

Science Activities

Check out these games about animal adaptations HERE

Want more information about chemical and physical changes, click HERE



Want to create a little fun:

Choose one of the categories from the website below and complete the activities. When you
are finished, create a Kahoot  all about the science concept that you explored and quiz your friends about your new found knowledge.

Read, Explore, and Create

Find all the categories- HERE

I-Ready Testing

Students go to the website below using Chrome as your browser

login.i-ready.com and enter your username and password.

Your username is first and last initial and your 6 digit student ID

The password is pass010

Example if your name is Bob Smith and your student ID is 999999

Then your login is BS999999 and the password is pass010

Volume

Click on the links below to practice finding volume:

Finding Volume of Rectangular Prisms

U5W5 GHOST TOWNS OF THE AMERICAN WEST

Unit 5 Week 5 Ghost Towns of the American West- SPELLING WORDS
1. politics 2. political 3. major
4. majority 5. equal
6. equation 7. sign
8. signature 9. arrive
10. arrival
11. inspire 12. inspiration 13. human 14. humanity 15. clean
16. cleanse 17. resign
18. resignation 19. unite
20. unity
21. magic
22. magician 23. remedy
24. remedial 25. individual 26. individuality 

Physical Characteristics and Classification

Use the following websites to research your animal and the characteristics that make them unique.

Classification Game

Research Your Vertebrate Group Here

Another Research Site

More Information

One More Site for Great Information


Your group will research your assigned group: Amphibian, Reptile, Fish, Mammal or Birds

You will make a movements and a chant to explain how to classify your group.

You will create a poster highlighting the specific characteristics unique to your vertebrate group.

Your group will teach the rest of the class your chant.

LOGIC PUZZLES

CHECK OUT THESE PUZZLES

Free Rice

Play at free rice to strengthen your vocabulary.

Freerice.com

Volume Quiz Take 3

Volume Quiz

Science Quiz

Heat Transfer Quiz

Volume Quiz, Take 2

Click HERE to take the quiz.

Lesson 26 Quiz

Quiz

Front Row Login

Click here to login in to Frontrow.


Remember First Name and Last initial only.

Our class code is xjyg74

Example

Jenifer    F     xjyg74

Cells

Listen to this catchy song, and then listen to it again.

The second time you listen, try to write down the names of the cell's organelles.

Cells, Cells

Interdependence

Strand 2-Interdependence-

Guiding Question:
How do living things interact with one another and with the non-living elements of their environment?

In assignment 2, you watched a video about Food Chains and Webs. Did it help bring you a little closer to answering the guiding question?

In today's assignment you will watch a Study Jams video and take a quiz. Then, you will write the sentences below in your journal and fill in the blanks.


ASSIGNMENT: Click on the link below to watch the STUDY JAMS video. Then copy the sentences below in your journal and fill in the blanks from the quiz after watching the video.

Study Jams

Symbiosis is ___________________________.

An example of ______________________ is when a tapeworm lives inside an animal and eats the food it digests.

One thing commensalism and mutualism have in common is ______________________________.

One example of commensalism is _______________________________.

______________________ is beneficial to both organisms.


The host in parasitism is the organism that ___________________________________.

An insect pollinating a flower is _______________________________.

Civil Rights Movement

• Today you did lots of reading about The Civil Rights Movement. Using your brain pop notes, your questions from page 310, and the websites below.
  
  Please create a Google Slides Project About The Civil Rights Movement.
  
  At least 10 slides, plus a reference slide (11 together)
  Include at least 5 pictures
  
  Answer the following questions:
  Who are 3 important people who were apart of the Civil Rights Movement and why were they important?
  What was the Civil Rights Movement
  Who did the Civil Rights Movement help?
  What does Civil rights Mean?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Brown v. Board of Education 
• Non-violent protest and the influence of the Highlander Folk School 
  Another site for Highlander Folk School
• Central High School-Little Rock, Arkansas
  
  
  * Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee 
• Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks 
• Tent Cities in Fayette and Haywood Counties 
• Nashville Sit-Ins and Diane Nash 
• Freedom Riders 
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

United States Senators

Click here to find the name of all of the Senators.

White House Administration

Click here to learn more about the White House administration.

Supreme Court

Click here to find out more about our Supreme Court Justices.

Renaissance

Click to learn more about the Renaissance!

Partial Quotients

Watch this video to learn more about partial quotients!

Somebody Loves you Mr. Hatch

Hey Kiddos!

Listen to this book and take an AR test if you dare.


Listen to the book here!

African American History Month

This month we will focus on

Creating Line Plots With Fractions

Students will click HERE to create line plots with fractions.

Interpreting Line Plots

Click HERE to practice interpreting line plots.

Who and Whom

Practicing Who and Whom

Click HERE to practice who and whom

Inferencing Riddles

Inferencing Riddles

Click HERE to practice inferencing riddles

Feet to Yards and Yards to Feet

Click HERE to practice converting yards and feet.

Centimeter Ruler Game

Click HERE to play a game learning to measure centimeters with a ruler.

Cups to Quarts to Cups

Click HERE to play a game and practice this skill.

Metric Length Matching

Click below to play the matching game with metric length.

GAME

Measurement

Use these websites below to practice measurement conversion:

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/menus/measurement.htm


Converting Inches

TONS OF RESOURCES

https://sites.google.com/a/bayhaven.org/ms-mason-s-marvels-homepage/parent-teacher-resource-page

Writing about History

Writing About History

       You will be assigned a topic related to American history during the early 1900's. You will research the topic and discover the who, what, where, when, and why of your topic.  Who does this involve? What is it all about? Where did this happen? When did it happen? Why is it important to American History? How does my topic relate to what we are learning in social studies?

You will write a paper about your topic. It can be a simple, three paragraph paper with an introduction, main paragraph, and a conclusion.

     You will take organized notes. You will be required to use one page for each separate website or resource that you use for research.

    You will use your notes to write a coherent, legible paper in a Google Document. It must align with our rubric that can be found HERE.


You then create a presentation in Google Slides that is at least 10 slides, includes 5 pictures, and your presentation should follow the expectations in the rubric, shown below:

The websites you can use for research can be found below.

Harlem Renaissance

Brainpop

American Historama

Time for Kids

Big Universe- Ask your teacher for login information

Great Depression

Brainpop

Kids Discover

History.Com

Big Universe- Ask your teacher for login information

Dust Bowl

Brainpop about droughts

American Historama

Easy Science for Kids

Big Universe- Ask your teacher for login information

Lusitania

WW1 Brainpop 

Ducksters

Lusitania Resource

History Facts for Kids

Big Universe - Ask your teacher for login information

Treaty of Versaille

Duckster.Com

Encyclopedia for Kids- Australia

American Historama

Study.Com

Big Universe-  Ask your teacher for login information

Women's Suffrage 

Brainpop

History for Kids

A Fight to Vote

Big Universe- Ask your teacher for login information

The New Deal

Brainpop FDR

American Historama

History.Com

Ducksters

Big Universe- Ask your teacher for login information

Gardening Group

You can find directions for your project HERE:

Garden Research Project

5.44 Explain the roles of significant people and groups in World War 1, including: Herbert Hoover, John J. Pershing, doughboys, Lawrence Tyson, and Alvin C. York.


Herbert Hoover Websites:
http://www.cornellcollege.edu/history/courses/stewart/his260-3-2006/01%20one/befr.htm




John J. Pershing Websites:
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/john-j-pershing
http://www.biography.com/people/john-j-pershingLA





Doughboys:
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/why-were-americans-who-served-in-world-war-i-called-doughboys

http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/worldwar1/a/dyk9.htm



Lawrence Tyson:




Alvin C. York:

World War 1 Information

Use this table to find which side countries fought  on:

http://www.flandersfieldsmusic.com/WWI-statistics.html


Use this world map:

http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-map-image.html


Now, create a key for your map.

All Allied powers need to be one color all Central powers need to be another.

Please color your world map accordingly.