Here are three very powerful anti-tobacco websites that you might want to try out.

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/resources/videos/

http://www.thetruth.com/

http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/ss/slideshow-ways-smoking-affects-looks

If you need some ideas for selecting your final four types of poems to research for the poetry book, try these websites to get you started.

http://www.poemofquotes.com/articles/poetry_forms.php

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html

Here are some rhyming dictionaries to help you complete your poetry book.

http://www.rhymezone.com/

http://www.rhymer.com/

http://wikirhymer.com/

Here’s some info on Jumpstreet in Plano.

I can’t wait to go!  How about you?

http://gotjump.com/plano-tx/

Here are a couple of sites to help you with your analysis of The Little Prince.

http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Little_Prince_Exupery/The_Little_Prince_Study_Guide13.html

http://www.thelittleprince.com/work/themes/

http://www.thelittleprince.com/work/the-story/

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/littleprince/themes.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/littleprince/canalysis.html

Now that you have selected a career, use the website that has been assigned to see what you can find-out about it.  Did you make a good choice from a financial standpoint?

Happy budgeting!

http://www.cdr.state.tx.us/realitycheck/

With a Popplet, you can collect ideas and then create a bubble map of those ideas.

Try doing this with a book that we read this year.

http://popplet.com/

They are fun to make!

If you want to make a movie poster of one of the books that we read this year, try the poster maker at Big Huge Labs.  It works like a charm!

http://bighugelabs.com/poster.php

The website Shmoop  has become my new favorite for analyzing books that we have read in class and books that I like to read on my own.  Check out the review on The Giver if you did not understand something in the story or would like to discover an even deeper level of meaning.

http://www.shmoop.com/the-giver/

SparkNotes is also not a bad choice if you don’t like to use Shmoop.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/giver/

Earth Day is April 22.  Below are some great websites to check out if you would like to be more environmentally aware and help out the planet.

Remember: “The power is yours!” – Captain Planet

http://www.earthday.org/

http://www.kidsforsavingearth.org/

Here are some cartoons from the early 1990′s that are still awesome:

http://captainplanetfoundation.org/videos/

Here are some games:

http://pbskids.org/games/earthday.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/usa_game/holiday_paint/earthday_home.htm

Since the science STAAR test is almost here, we will spend the last few days reviewing by using the Edusmart program in the computer lab.  In addition to going over fifth grade concepts, also review the fourth and third grade concepts listed below.

Third grade

Force

The Solar System

Fourth Grade

Conserving Resources

Soil Properties and Experiments

Energy from the Sun and weather

Recognizing Patterns in Changes

Electrical Circuits

It should help you feel comfortable before you take the test to know that you understand all of these concepts!

(Here’s the website to the company if you are interested: http://www.edusmart.com/)

It is always a good this time  of the year to review the proper way to treat our fellow classmates.

Tell us what you learned this time.

http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov

http://www.pacerkidsagainstbullying.org/

http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=286&id=1695

www.bullying.org

www.wordscanheal.org

Tumblereadables is a site with online books that include audio narration and text that highlights as it is being read.  Check it out and tell us if it is something that you might like to use at home.

http://www.tumblereadables.com/

The Kentucky Virtual Library has an interesting website to help guide you through the process of doing research.  Take a look at it and tell us if you think that it is a site that you might want to use.

http://www.kyvl.org/kids/homebase.html

Are you really interested in animals?  We’re not just talking about being really interested, but really interested.  This site has literally hundreds of thousands of pictures of thousands of animals with links to research about each animal that can help to pique your interest in the subject

So, are you interested?

http://siwild.si.edu/index.cfm

Would you like to win $25,000, take a trip to the beautiful country of Costa Rica, or spend a summer with some world-renowned scientists?  If you answered “yes”, then sign up for this year’s Young Scientist Challenge and it might happen to you!

Don’t forget, the deadline is April 10th this year.

http://www.youngscientistchallenge.com/

So, you need to review a math concept.  This site has everything you could possibly want to help you go over an area of weakness or simply refresh your memory.

http://techcoachcorner2.org/envision%20math%20resources/fifthgrade.htm

Here are some good physical science applets to help you understand what we are currently covering.  Try the applets under the “thermal physics” and “optics” tabs.

http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/applets.1.htm

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=Science%20Lab

(Some of the links on the second site are not free, but try whichever you can.)

This website has some fun articles that might interest you in case you like to read the newspaper.

http://tweentribune.com/

Congratulations to T10, our Class World Math Day Champion!

Also, congratulations to T13, our Class World Science Day Champion!

You both rule!

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Happy World Spelling/Math/Science Day(s) 2012!

http://www.worldmathsday.com/

Let’s use the BBC Bitesize website to review scientific concepts  related to physical processes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes/

Exploratorium has lots of fun science concepts that are really engaging.

My favorite is the video on cow eye dissection.  Ewwww gross!  

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/

A great way to retell or summarize a story is to use the Storybird website.  Also, it has some really neat artwork submitted by many different artists that can also inspire you in other areas.

http://storybird.com/

Try this Quia activity and see if you can become an “inference millionaire”!

http://www.quia.com/rr/370426.html

Click on one of the below choices to vote for the name of the school of fish in the back of our class.  This will be our pets’ collective name.

We already all know the name of our second Siamese fighting fish “Captain II” that decided to hang-out with us after “Captain I” passed away. But, we don’t yet have a name for the school of guppies in the back of our classroom.

So, submit a name for the group of fish, and we’ll vote on our favorite!

If you haven’t played the games at Switcheroo Zoo yet, give it a shot.  It has fun games that cover everything that we are currently learning about.

Tell us what you enjoyed the most/least.

http://www.switchzoo.com/

This is probably the most fun social studies/government website that I have ever been to.  It has awesome games that allow you to learn how the U.S. government works while having a good time!

 http://www.icivics.org/

My favorite is still “Do I Have a Right?”.  What is yours?