FREE Museum of Science Hurricane Day TODAY!

http://www.miamisci.org/events/feeltheforce/

Enjoy a free trip with the family! Once a year, the opportunity to see and touch hurricane hunter's tools, meet hurricane specialists, and our local Channel 10 meteorologist, Betty Davis! :)

Spend a day learning about hurricanes in addition to all the museum has to offer. Visit the planetarium and go through the back doors to visit the Bird of Prey exhibit. See if you can see our owl's relative! :) 

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/getting-organized/dude-wheres-my-homework

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/getting-organized/dude-wheres-my-homework

Timeline Activity

Use these guidelines:

• Pick five events and pictures for your timeline.
• Label each picture/event with a caption and the year.
• Present your "Timeline of You" in class. 

I look forward to seeing them. Enjoy creating your timeline by following directions and using the provided strip paper. :)

Hope this link helps:
How to make a timeline

Presidents and Black History

Florida's Black History site http://www.floridablackhistory.com/index.cfm
floridablackhistory.com
Time for Kids -MLK
History
Scholastic_



usa4kids.com
presidentialtimeline
Presidents' Biography
whitehouse.gov
nationalgeographic.com - presidents/kids
Presidents on money
President-activities

kids.usa.gov-president poster

Valentine's Week is Here! Remember your treats!

Thanks for sharing and helping through the "Stone Soup" idea of sharing.  The more, the merrier! Thank you to all of you who always contribute and those who already did.  Thank you, Damian, for my early gift card-I already used it! :)

Click here:
Hallmark kids
Printable joke booklet-UK
Crafts and Fun
History


Winter Olympics

Moonshot is Here! Welcome to the Apollo 11 Mission! :)

Apollo 11 landing spot

Cool Moon info

Apollo 1-10
Apollo 11-17

Kidport Apollo 11 info
Starchild-Apollo11
howstuffworks-lunar-landing

NASA history-Apollo 11 Journal
NASA history-Apollo 11 Image Library! Awesome!
Apollo 11 Docking with Eagle AUDIO Library!

NASA History Apollo 11 Video Library!
Apollo 11 video links
History.com-Apollo 11 videos
NASA videos-Apollo11
Science kids NZ
Spacekids UK

Library-KSC-Kennedy Space Ctr
Studying and visiting Neil Armstrong's flown suit

Wow! Even the Apollo 11 astronauts had to follow rules-377 PAGES!
NASA history-all Apollo Journals

Get your MOONSHOT book by next week!

In the meantime, here's China's rover-remember watching the landing?
China's Jade Rabbit rover

After you read the Chinese tale of Jade Rabbit, can you infer why China named their rover, "Jade Rabbit"?
Chinese Legend, Jade Rabbit

Buy MOONSHOT from Scholastic-only $5.00!
Scholastic Reading Club-Moonshot

Add So You Want To Be President also for $5.00! Using your Christmas coupon is like BOGO-buy one get one.
Scholastic Reading Club-So You Want To Be President

Our Party

Wendy's meals, Frosties, treats, hot chocolate, Oreo pies and more! :)

'Bye Raphael, We'll Miss You! Write Us a Note! :)

Hall of Famer, Andre Dawson, Visits Our Class! :)

The ENTIRE class got his autograph!  He's one of three people in baseball history to bat 400 homeruns! Wow! What an honor! Thanks for visiting Mr. Dawson.

Principal for the day: NBC 6
Andre Dawson's Web Page
Hall of Fame
Andre Dawson's Commercial :)

Miami International Book Fair

It's finally here! 

MY LIFE AS A BOOK author, Janet Tashjian will be there! Janet Tashjian's website-new books!

Tell your parents to go to the parent blog for maps and schedules!

Click:

• Spelling Breathing Parents

• Street Fair

• Children's Alley -FUN!  :)   

• Destination Comics 

• Map with directions

Kids' Authors:  (Click on names.)

• Janet Tashjian, MY LIFE AS A BOOK author. Janet Tashjian
• David Kirk-Miss Spider and Nova's Ark David Kirk, link
• James Dean, Pete The Cat 
• William Joyce  George Shrinks,  Wilbur Robinson, Leaf Men, and more 

William Joyce's Site: The Guardians of Childhood Books- cool

No Matthew Reinhart :(  Meap

Visit:

Usborne books

Harper Collins

Tate's Comics

Thank you for sharing your culture.

Partial Solar Eclipse Sunday, November 3 (This Sun.)

Pretty cool. Check it out at sunrise and protect your eyes. :)


Some helpful hints for viewing:

1. Don't stare! NEVER stare at the sun.
2. Get Mylar at Michaels or hobby store to shield eyes if looking for prolonged periods.
3. If you know a welder, use his mask. :) 

Here's NASA's Guide for Safe Viewing

Sky and Telescope's Guide
Time and Date eclipse info

Space.com gives extra info
Exploratorium shows how to make your own with white posterboard-scroll down

Costume Day

It's the last day of October. You can wear your costumes and eat candy. It's also three days before we set our clocks back one hour...the class clock already did it by itself. :)

Here's some fun things to click on and learn:

• Pumpkin Guts video-The Happy Scientist
• NG Kids - Fruit Bats video Listen for the METAPHOR
• Interactive Bat Site
• Wow, check out what scientists did when hypothesizing about bats! What did they use to test bats?
• Okay, watch this spider trap and prepare this bat for dinner...FOR dinner! Warning=Creepy
• World's Fastest Pumpkin Carver-watch him carve Alan Shephard walking on the moon! Not the astronauts from your book, Moonshot, but cool!
• History.com-History of Halloween "Bet You Didn't Know"  So, what did you learn?
• Pumpkin facts video-interesting Where do you think pumpkins originated? Which country/continent?
• Candy Corn video Yum! Did you know the candy gets polished? How?

Since you were interested in these things, here you go...

• NG Kids-Beavers :) They're North America's ___________ __________.

Free Comic Book Day - This weekend!

Type your zip code to see the closets places!

Get your Chilean Facts

Get your facts! :)

Happy October! Multiplication is here!

Multiplication Rock videos!

About 50 Cases of Lice @ School!

Check out some lice info
Kids' Health.org
Headlice.org

National Punctuation Day is September 24!

How will you celebrate? Will you use correct punctuation? Will you use punctuation marks to make cute happy faces? :)

nationalpunctuationday.com/
SHR, Interjections! 
timeforkids-punctuation-practice
LL COOL J Punctuation Rap
Capt. Cluck
Yo! Yes?
Electric Co. May I Ask A Question? Video
Elec co. Punctuation Marks, video
Google Grammar for kids
Kim's Corner
Punctuation song

Matthew Reinhart Day Was Great!

Hope you enjoyed the special event.

Remember, Transformers will be on bookshelves in October! Plus, there's more to come!

You will be able to order his books from Amazon, which has a LARGE selection and delivers them right to your house. You can always go shopping at Barnes and Noble to purchase his books-like I did. :)

Yay for Matthew Reinhart Day! :) 


Pre-order from Amazon