At your stations, as a group, watch the BrainPOP videos Classification and The Six Kingdoms. Listen carefully and then take the quizzes as a group. Add the important information to your graphic organizer in the appropriate sections. Then, continuing as a group, watch the following videos and fill in the bubbles with the most important information you learn. (Hint: fill them in as you go, don't try to remember everything at the end of the video.)
Invertebrates
Vertebrates
Birds
Mammals

Upcoming Units in Math! The More Preview/Practice ~ THE BETTER!!!!!!!!

Math5Live!

Math5Live reviews all kinds of 5th grade skill that will be on the CRCT! Some of the games are free and they are terrific! YOU MAY ONLY PLAY THE FREE GAMES! Enjoy studying!

Measurement!

Measurement - this is a huge portion of the math section of the CRCT! Use the sites below to help you get ready to blast that test!
Measure it! at FUNBRAIN
Customary Unit Quiz - very important!
How Many Pearls - You've just stumbled on a treasure chest filled with pearls and you want a quick estimate of the number, without having to count them one by one.Area Explorer - Students are shown shapes on a grid after setting the perimeter and asked to calculate areas of the shapes.
Perimeter Explorer - Students are shown shapes on a grid after setting the area and asked to calculate perimeters of the shapes.
Shape Explorer - Students are shown shapes on a grid and asked to calculate areas and perimeters of the shapes.
Estimator - Practice estimation skills by determining the number of objects, length, or area. (parameters: error tolerance)
Comparison Estimator - Similar to Estimator but compares two sets of objects.
More or Less Estimator - Similar to Estimator activity but states a quantity and asks the user to estimate whether the set of objects is more or less than the number given.
Units of Mass - Scroll to the middle of the page for many quizzes on this concept.

Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators

We are going to add and subtract with unlike denominators with Mr. D (Mr. Denominator!) First, try some practice problems at Coolmath4kids.com! Don't scroll over the answer until your stations has worked the problem together on paper!

Then you may try adding unlikes and subtracting unlikes!

Percent

Visit Cyberchase to practice percent! You can also make your own circle graphs using percentages at the National Library of Virtual Math Manipulatives!

• And also, challenger yourself at Math Goodies on your percent conversions!

Fractions, Fractions, Fractions!

We are beginning our lengthy unit on FRACTIONS! We will learn how to make them equivalent, simplify them, name them, add them, subtract them, multiply and divide them! So hold on to your hat - everyday builds on the next and you must keep up so that your hat is not blown away! We are first going to look at equivalent fractions and how to simplify/reduce fractions. These are two key concepts that you will always use with fractions!
Here are some sites for equivalent fractions introduction and practice:
PBS KIDS
KIDSOLR
Here are some sites to help you learn how to simplify/reduce/ or put fractions in lowest terms:
wmnet.org
Fresh Baked Fractions