Tonight &Tomorrow's Meteor Shower!

Meteor Over Tucson 
Geminid Meteor Shower 10pm tonight & 3am tomorrow morning. 

Silly Lil' Elf

What should his name be? Comment below...

This Week

Reading Skills:
Play-It's Greek To Me!
Word Games
Work in teams: Word Jeopardy 
HS Practice/Links

Math Practice Sites:
Double Digit Divisors
Using Models
Khan Academy  

Geography:
Games
N. Geographic

Science:
Virtual Mars Water on Mars! 
Curiosity Rover
Cubesat
Comet ISON Model

Tonight's Sky!!!

 TAURID METEOR SHOWER!
I hope you get a chance to go outside tomorrow-EARLY morning BEFORE 5am.
Tonight & Tomorrow the Annual Taurid's Meteor Shower Peaks!

Lenoid's Meteor Shower-Nov. 16-18th Visible from LATE evening to EARLY morning. Full Moon May Be In Way However.....


Comet ISON         Live Tracking       Mt. Lemon/UofA's Sky Tracker of ISON
Chasing Comet ISON  Tracking Chart

Ben's Bells

Today's Review

Student directed learning. :-)

Science Fun!

Woo hoo!

:-)

Greek/Latin Roots
It's Greek to Me!
Geography-Europe Locations & Online/Graded Quiz

Monday & Tuesday

Mr. Matchett will be your teacher, so I can be at a convention. It's a science competition, scientists compete against a set deadline with lots of rules. If they win, their project is paid for! SO cool!

http://www.xprize.org/prize-development

Guest Teacher

Science was SO much fun today!!!

Readers Theater Scripts!

Printable Scripts
1770 Boston Massacre
1773 Boston Tea Party
1776 Crossing the Delaware
1767 Colonial America
1775 Patriots & Loyalists
1781 Spy at York Town 
1781 Yorktown Revolt!
Helpful Handouts
Revolutionary War
Westward Expansion/Pioneers
Gold Rush 

Math Links

Math Connects

:-)

Language Arts & Social Studies
September 17th was Constitution Day
Symbols of America
You are the Historian







ScienceScience Video of the Week
Earth Sky News
Mars Curiosity

What A Great Week!

Happy Weekend :-)

September 9-13th

Your child has received username and passwords for:
Math
Reading-Satchel Paige AMAZING WORDS!
Geography Locations: Greenland, Iceland and Newfoundland
September 11th Lesson
Typing Practice
Brain Pop-Code Red Survival
Code Fred!

September!

Reading Street 5th Grade
Unit 1 Focus: Week 3 Island of the Blue Dolphins
Vocab./Spelling Practice
Study Stack
Games

Math McGraw Hill Connect Ed.
Are You Ready? Quiz

This week...

Reading:
Vocabulary, Homographs, Etymology (Study of Words), Affixes (Prefix, Root/Base, Suffix)
Point of View-Game
1. First Person
2. Second Person
3. Third Person Objective & Omniscient
Math: Vocabulary
Place Value, Fractions, Decimals
Social Studies:
Geography (Oceans, Prime Meridian & Equator)
Science:
Multiple Intelligences, Nervous System (Brain/Me-Ology) continued...
Extras:
The Futures Channel
TED TALKS (Most Viewed)

5th Grade Fun

🐢

Math Practice Online

Silly fun!

My son "helping" me before the school year began. 😊

Learning Begins

What a great day!

Happy School Year!

Former students, Ani and Tommy now in 8th grade with their sibling now in fifth.

What a fun last week!

Hope you are all having a great summer! :-)

Here they come!

Baby turtles!

Tonight's Super Moon

Over Tucson's Catalina Mountains-Courtesy of Star Tours, AZ

Super Moon Tonight!

Hope you are having a GREAT summer!

Tornadoes. :-(

Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma was hit directly by a massive tornado today. Thinking of the families including children affected by nature's fury.

Last Week of School!

Science of Making Ice-cream!

               What a fun afternoon!!!

     

:-)

Happy weekend!

Our class learned well this year.

What a fun day! :-)

Tonight's Sky

Did you see Jupiter and Venus? 

Also: Astronauts on their way! 

Update: Expedition 35 Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan! YAY! 

Baby Chick Web Cam

They're hatching! http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sulik-chicken-cam

Studying for Math MAP Monday!

Student Website Suggestions:

Cameron- Everyday Math Games
Mason- MAP Math
Ria-Shepard Software Math
Sean-Turtle Head Multiplication
Hunter-Capacity Song
Area of Shapes
     
          Great job! YAY!

Get Ready to......

Beat your NWEA MAP Score!
Be ready Monday-Last math test for the school year! Maybe..
Thank you to those who are working VERY hard to study, complete assignments and have even created their project. Great job!

Science News 
 Earth Sky
Your Brain on Music-Interesting Experiment!

Earth Day!

Ecology/Ecosystem-The study of the interaction of people with their environment (land, animals, etc.)
Biomes
- Tropical Rainforest (Near Equator)
- Tropical Savanna (Africa)
- Desert (Middle East, etc.)
- Mediterranean Woodland (Coniferous Forests)
- Mid-latitude Grassland (Oklahoma, etc.)
- Mid-latitude Deciduous Forest (East Coast of North America)
- Tundra (North; Canada, Alaska)
- Ice Caps (North/South Poles)

List of Endangered Animals

Place Your Bets....

*Friday's attempt was cancled due to bad weather.
Will Antares launch Saturday, Sunday or sometime next week? Comment below to vote!

Don't miss it!

Check out the links before 3pm (our time) each day (5pm Eastern time) to find out!

LINKS:

NASA
NASA LIVE TV 
Obital Sciences 

Poetry Month

Types of Poetry

Enter Poetry Contest: Poetic Power
Read Silly Poems at Giggle Poetry
HIGH Reader Poetry Site
Literary Words to Know by Grade Level
BBC Poetry        Figurative Language: Quiz
Find Your State Test!

LOVE SCIENCE? Check out THIS blog: Mr. C's Class Blog

AIMS Review :-)

      Friday was BUSY! 
*I did not get a chance to copy your study/prep packets for AIMS. 

Here are a few links to help you prepare:
1. AIMS Online Practice Links
2. 4th Grade Science
3. Science Workbook
4. Try this quiz!
5. 5th Grade Practice Online

 

           

You are ALL 

wonderful and motivated students!

Can a launched missile take out an asteroid?

There are scientists working to develop technology to intercept asteroids. However, to take out an asteroid, a missile really needs to impact (hit) it directly. Because asteroids are really piles of porous rubble and contain numerous pieces (not just one), it would be nearly impossible to take out with a single direct hit. And, even given a direct hit, the force may only nudge the asteroid a tiny bit, which would require significant advance knowledge that it was on a collusion course.
*My two cents? Seems like a long shot to me.
Greg’s answer: Very complicated. If a missile were to hit an asteroid, just because it breaks it up doesn't mean the pieces will change their orbit (the direction at which they travel)- they still come at us. Also, a missile hit might not break it up well. Asteroids are big! How big of a missile can we send?
At this time, scenarios computer simulations for deflecting (changing the direction) an asteroid involves:

1. Knowing about an asteroid about it 5 or more years before we know it may hit Earth
2. Sending something up (an rocket motor, whatever) to just change the asteroid’s path away from Earth.
3. If an asteroid was on a path toward Earth, all it takes really is a mild nudge (move it), but how do we do that?                           *More information and research is needed.

Earth Month

Cells ALIVE!

Time for Kids & Current Events
Common Core Standards Grades 3-5


Science of PEEPS!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

The Dragon is back!

On its way to CA!

This week in class....

Reading: Finishing up Number the Stars
Math:
4th-Unit 5
5th-Unit 7
Social Studies: USA, Regions, Landforms, Landmarks
Design A Map, Games
Current Events: CNN Student News
Science: NASA, Moon Phases, Space X Dragon Spacecraft System

 

Earth Hour has already begun in many countries-See it Live!

 Kids Games

 

                                                                        UNITING PEOPLE TO PROTECT THE PLANET 
 

 

 

Bear Essential News for Kids

Calling All Tucson Young Reporters &
Young Reporter Wannabees!

It's Time for This Month's Third Thursday at Peter Piper Pizza

YOUNG REPORTER NIGHT!
Thursday, Mar. 21 • 4 to 6 p.m.
Peter Piper Pizza (Speedway & Silverbell)
1380 N. Silverbell Rd.

Free pizza & kids drink for current Young Reporters and those just signing up! (must be in grades 3 thru 8)
One of these lucky kids will win an awesome digital recorder!

Get your official YR kit if you're a new reporter. Bring in your story for editing.

For more info, please call 520-792-9930.

Third Thursdays are made possible by Peter Piper Pizza.

 *Great job Alyssa, Ria, Claire, Melody, Gisele, and Ruby!  

Let's get more kids involved :-) Bear Essential News for Kids-Young Reporters

Happy Spring!

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-vernal-or-spring-equinox#.UUnXBRW9Kc0

More Space X Quizzes
Space X Live

Cool!

:-)

Hope to see you at the UofA this weekend!

Tucson Festival of Books

Science City (also at UofA)
Physics 1-3:30pm
Sunday:
Sunday, March 10th

10:00am Chemistry of Combustion Show
See exciting demos of fire and explosions using rare and everyday solids, liquids, and gases. Discover the science behind chemistry in our everyday lives!
11:30am It’s a Jungle Out There! 52 Nature Activities for City Kids
Children's science author, Jennifer Ward, will read-aloud and discuss the benefits of nature and children from her book “It’s a Jungle Out There! "52 Nature Activities for City Kids”, followed by a hands-on activity related to nature
***and many, many more events!

What an eventful week!

Have a great weekend!

Yay!

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft attached successfully* to the International Space Station at approximately this morning-8:56 a.m. EST Sunday. Dragon arrived to station with over 2,300 pounds of cargo and packaging to ensure safe travel, and during the next 22 days, astronauts will unload and then load cargo, including materials to support important science experiments. Dragon will return to Earth with over 3,000 pounds of cargo, and has a targeted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, Calif. on March 25. Dragon is the only spacecraft in the world today capable of returning large amounts of cargo to Earth. Read more: https://spacex.com/updates.php

NASA - International Space Station

NASA - International Space Station

Live Rocket Launch Today!

The private spaceflight company SpaceX is the first EVER to build and launch its own rockets and space capsules to the International Space Station and RETURN them to Earth. SpaceX's unmanned Dragon space capsules launch on the company's Falcon 9 rockets and first flew to the International Space Station in 2012. The Calif.-based company is planning to upgrade Dragon capsules to launch seven people into orbit in upcoming years, but there's more to SpaceX than meets the eye.
So, to answer many of your questions today, NO there were not people inside the rocket today. The problem they had was a minor computer issue. The solar panels would not open so the engine, which needs energy from the solar panels would not function/work either. All they had to do was tell the panels to open via computer on Earth and it began to function as planned. Dragon, will not attach to the ISS as planned however, just in case its engines fail again. After all, we have to protect the ISS because there ARE people on that not to mention years of innovation-still in progress. :-)
For more information, visit: www.spacex.com