Adding and Subtracting Fractions with like and unlike denominators

Here is a video to help you remember how to add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators.

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Changing an improper fraction into a mixed number

Here is a video to remind you how to change an improper fraction into a mixed number. It will explain what it means and show you a shortcut, as well.

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Changing a Mixed Number to an Improper Fraction

Would you like a refresher on changing a mixed number to an improper fraction? Check this video out!

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RRJ Entry

Tonight for homework, I would like you to do some thinking and some writing about the work you have been doing in your historical fiction book clubs or our class read-aloud My Brother Sam is Dead. Please complete a one-page entry sharing your thoughts. Some of the ideas you might write about could be:

-Setting (Where, when and what is the emotional atmosphere like?)
-Conflict/Tension
-Change (Who or what has changed? Why is this important?)
-Looking closely at character (Their traits, what motivates them, what pressures they face and the problems that exist for them)
-Repetition- What is being repeated and why? What could this mean?
-Themes

Your entry is due tomorrow, February 5, 2015.

Online Scavenger Hunt

See what extra facts you can learn about the 13 colonies during this interactive scavenger hunt! When you have finished the scavenger hunt, don't forget to e-mail Mrs. Woods and let her know the most surprising new thing you learned.

Click here to go to the scavenger hunt

Interactive Map!

Check out this website where you can make you own map! We will use it for social studies today to create an interactive 13 colonies map.

Interactive Map Maker


Use this map to help you locate each colony:

Labeled 13 colonies map

December Happenings

Hi! I am Nicole Strickland. And I am here to write about "December Happenings".

We have had a busy month! We worked with Mrs. Forst's first grade class.We read a book called  The Snow Globe Family. and made little snow globes with our pictures in them. We also made picture frames. We also worked on writing argument/opinion essays about chocolate milk and school uniforms. We picked our own research topics and created non-fiction books, too!

We are looking forward to our school-wide sing along tomorrow. It is when the whole school comes together and sings. If you are a new teacher, you have to dance when we sing Have A Holly Jolly Christmas. But don't worry- the students will help you!