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Sitton Word Study Unit 18

The concepts for this unit are:

1. A contraction is a combination of two or more words with an ‘ replacing a letter or letters.
2. Some words have silent letters.
3. A prefix is a letter or letters added to the beginning of a word.  A suffix is a letter or letters added to the end of a word.

The Unit Core Words are:

1. young
2. sun
3. thing
4. whole
5. hear

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 activities for practicing the Unit 18 Words unit .

 does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 18 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

Respecting copyright verses free information

Today Wikipedia and Google are protesting to bills in congress called Stopping Online Privacy Act and Controlling Online Piracy Act.

First: What is Copyright?

Next: Can you steal information?

Then, When is it ok to use copyrighted stuff?

So when is it fair to use copyrighted material and when is it copyright piracy?

Sitton Word Study Unit 17

The concepts for this unit are:

1. A contraction is a combination of two or more words with an ‘ replacing a letter or letters.
2. Some words have silent letters.
3. A prefix is a letter or letters added to the beginning of a word.  A suffix is a letter or letters added to the end of a word.

The Unit Core Words are:

1. sure
2. knew
3. it’s
4. try
5. told

There will be a cloze-style pretest and skill pretest.  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.  Words missed will go in their Quickword personal spelling dictionary.

There are activities for practicing the Unit 17 Words unit .

 does have all  Cloze pretest Unit 17 word list.  Students can learn, play a game, and even take a test.

Taking care of a Fiddler Crab

In sand, fiddler crabs have no problem digging burrows.

We have adopted out all our fidder crabs.  Here are links to sites that I found that tell you how to care for fiddler crabs.  Basically sand and salt water.  We fed them dried plankton.  You can find the supplies you need at a pet store or pet department of a store.

Fiddler Crab Care

Basic Fiddler Crab Care |

Keeping Fiddler Crabs as Pets

How to Care for Fiddler Crabs | eHow.com

CtryLuv’s Crabbie Cove Blog: Fiddler Crab Care

We still have millipedes available for adoption.

Sitton Word Study Unit 16

Digital Citizenship: Online Safety

As more of our 21st century society moves to the web, we need to develop those skills that will help us navigate these online communities.  We started this week learning about online safety in the computer lab.  The kids already knew a lot about how to stay safe online, and how to avoid cyberbullies.  Each year the students seem to know even more that the year before.  We will be a using a couple sites to learn about what to do to stay safe while online.

We are not going to use McGruff.org.  It is a good resource, but it focuses mainly on preventing cyberbullying.

Netsmartzkids.org takes a more positive, proactive, and pervasive approach to what it means to me a good digital citizen.  Fun characters like Clicky, Nettie, and Webster teach kids how to be safe online by doing the right thing and avoiding the Webville Outlaws.  The site is very interactive with lots of videos, games, and activities.  It has expanded this year to include how to evaluate the credibility of information found on the web.

I just discovered   Webonauts by pbskids.org.  It is really a web game that teaches 8-10 year olds 21st century literacy skills as well as online safety.  It seems to have more of an interacitve storyline to teaching online skills.

Sitton Unit 15 Word Study