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The Final Homemade Instrument Videos

We have finished our Sound unit and made Homemade Instruments.  Students brought in their instruments and presented them to the class.  They told us about the instrument and how it worked.  They also had to explain:

1. How it makes sound and how we hear it.
2. How to change the pitch.
3. Extra Credit for playing a song.

I uploaded these videos to our  channel and I am posting them here.

Still more Homemade Instrument videos

We are finishing our Sound unit and made Homemade Instruments.  Students brought in their instruments and presented them to the class.  They told us about the instrument and how it worked.  They also had to explain:

1. How it makes sound and how we hear it.
2. How to change the pitch.
3. Extra Credit for playing a song.

I uploaded these videos to our  channel and will try to post them here.

Pet Day Calendar

The kids have been looking forward to Pet Day all year. We will Show-and-Tell about our pets next Thursday. I have attached a letter with information and schedule.

I will also put a Google Calendar on our class web site. If you have a Google account you can schedule your own 15 minute slot during the day. If you just want to send back to me your appointment time, I can add it to the Google Calendar for you. The link to make an appointment is Pet Day Google Calendar.
I will also have paper copies if your would rather have your child bring one home.

Even More Homemade Instruments

We are finishing our Sound unit and made Homemade Instruments.  Students brought in their instruments and presented them to the class.  They told us about the instrument and how it worked.  They also had to explain:

1. How it makes sound and how we hear it.
2. How to change the pitch.
3. Extra Credit for playing a song.

I uploaded these videos to our  channel and will try to post them here.

Unit 31 Word Study

The concepts for this unit are:

1. An /i/ or /e/ at the end of a word is usually spelled y.
2. An apotrophe is used in a contraction and in some possessives.
3. A compound is a combination of two or more words.

The Unit Core Words are:

Unit 31:

1. inside
   
2. ago
3. sad
4. early
5. I’ll

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  They will correct their missed words to take home to study.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.

There are Unit 31 activities for practicing the Unit 31 Word Study unit .

 does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 31 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

More Homemade Instruments

We are finishing our Sound unit and made Homemade Instruments.  Students brought in their instruments and presented them to the class.  They told us about the instrument and how it worked.  They also had to explain:

1. How it makes sound and how we hear it.
2. How to change the pitch.
3. Extra Credit for playing a song.

I uploaded these videos to our Schooltube channel and will try to post them here.

Unit 30 Word Study

The concepts for this unit are:

1. Some words are spelled the way they sound, while others are not.
   
2. Double letters stand for one sound.
3. some words have capital letters.

The Unit Core Words are:

Unit 30:

1. tree
2. course
3. front
4. American
5. space

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  They will correct their missed words to take home to study.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.

There are Unit 30 activities for practicing the Unit 30 Word Study unit .

 does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 30 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

Unit 29 Word Study

The concepts for this unit are:

1. Frequent spelling patterns for words with soft-syllable endings include /ûr/ spelled er, or, and ar and /ûl/ spelled le, al, el
   
2. Spelling patterns for /ou/ are ou and ow.

The Unit Core Words are:

Unit 29:

1. ground
2. cold
3. really
4. table
5. remember

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  They will correct their missed words to take home to study.  You will see a parent letter come home with an activity involving one of this week’s spelling rules.  On Friday, Those who did not ace the pretest will have a spelling test over the words on the cloze pretest.

There are Unit 29 activities for practicing the Unit 29 Word Study unit .

 does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 29 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

Homemade Guitars

We are finishing our Sound unit and made Homemade Instruments.  Students brought in their guitars and presented them to the class.  They told us about the instrument and how it worked.  They also had to explain:

1. How it makes sound and how we hear it.
2. How to change the pitch.
3. Extra Credit for playing a song.

I uploaded these videos to our Schooltube channel and will try to post them here.