Free Rice

Fifth graders spent some time this week practicing vocabulary at the Free Rice website. For each correct answer to a vocabulary question, grains of rice are donated to United Nations World Food Program. By our calculations, in the few minutes they worked at the website, fifth graders donated 18,770 grains of rice. It's a nice example of people helping people via the internet.

Learning to Type

This month, third grade joins fourth and fifth in working with Type To Learn 4 during their ICT times. To practice at home, try the links posted here, or try one of these games -

Keyboarding games from the Learning Games for Kids website:
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

Alpha Munchies
http://www.abcya.com/kids_typing_game.htm
Type the letters above the critters as they fall from the sky - to protect your character's lunch! Letters appear on screen as upper case but do not need to be typed that way. That's good!

Typer Shark

http://kids.aol.com/games/typer-shark/

Type the words and letters on the sharks before they can attack the diver. There are several levels to this fast-paced game. 

Typer Spider

http://funschool.kaboose.com/gamesFiles/flash/kaboose/spidertyper/spidertyper.swf

Type to help the spider escape the hungry chameleons. 

Remember to sit up straight and keep your fingers on the home row keys!

Summertime ICT!

Happy Summer! I hope you spend lots of time outside in the sunshine. I hope you read lots of books! And, if you want a little computer time, I hope you like the Tizmos page I made for you to use at home - and that Seed Ball game we played is on it!) Click right here to find it!

Seuss Quiz!

Dr. Seuss is everywhere this week with Read Across America events happening! How much do you know about Dr. Seuss? Take this quiz to find out!

Happy Halloween!

For online Halloween fun, a few websites just for you!

Trick or Treat: Find the shortest routes that will visit all houses and still get you back home before the pumpkin!
Pumpkin carving: Click and drag the mouse to carve the pumpkin.
Make a pumpkin: Click and drag to add features to the pumpkin.
Skeleton Dance: Complete the puzzle to make the skeletons dance!
Halloween with Boowa and Kwala: Puzzles, games, crafts, and singing ghosts!
Online Halloween Games from Ben & Jerry, the ice cream guys!
The Typing of the Ghosts: Ghosts disappear when you type the words on them. Keep your fingers on the home row keys!
Fourth and fifth graders, the link to the page with the Skulduggery Pleasant book trailer is here, at the bottom of the "Book Trailers" list.

Have a safe and happy Halloween!