Friday Menu

Students: Today you will be working on the following things in the computer lab. Follow these links to your assignments.

1 Try this quiz on confusable words: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/confusibles.htm

2. And this second one too: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/lie_lay_quiz.htm

3. Go to Raise Hope for the Congo and see where the companies you support with your money  stand in these rankings: http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org/content/conflict-minerals-company-rankings

4. Write a letter through this form asking the 21 CEOs of the largest companies to do more to keep track of conflict minerals. Use your own email address if possible and WRITE YOUR OWN LETTER, DON'T USE THE FORM THEY GIVE YOU. Ask for help and I will come by and help you write it. : http://www2.americanprogress.org/t/1684/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6265

5. Go to KS3 Bitesize and try their games! Explore the site because we are going to spend some time on it for the next few weeks! http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/

6: Continue writing your short story. Open your google docs and add voice, figurative language. Maybe you can read some short stories at stone soup (see below) to get more inspiration.

http://www.stonesoup.com/archive/writing/114

This a story about a boy who expiriences an attack by armed men in Africa, and survives.


- Dylan M.

They're Pigs

This is a storie called They're Pigs. A boys family wakes up as pigs, and the boy has to chase them to work before anything bad happens to them. After a long and funny chase the boys finds out he is dreaming, waking up to realize that everything is normal again.
Humor

rosalinos dog

this is a storie about a loyal dog who follows his owner from mexico to california.http://www.stonesoup.com/archive/writing/168

Stone Soup: A Literary Magazine by and for Kids

Check out Stone Soup. Its a magazine full of short stories, poetry and book reviews written by kids under 13. Read the Archive materials, which are selected stories from the print issue posted online. Which one is your favorite? Review a story in the comment section .

How to Create a model of the earth using playdough

Try this website (for teachers) to learn how to make a scale model of the earth

http://www.teachengineering.org/view_activity.php?url=http://www.teachengineering.org/collection/cub_/activities/cub_natdis/cub_natdis_lesson02_activity1.xml

IXL:Geometry by:Stephanie and Itzi

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-6/find-missing-angles-and-side-lengths-in-triangles-and-quadrilaterals

This website teaches you how to add measurements of different shapes,and other math stuff.It really helps you  in the math test.

Funschool . com

This website will help you learn about math and language arts there are games that teach you about fractions , vocabulary and more.

This website also is for teachers and parents it will help children immprove in math , language arts , and vocabulary also its fun and very educational .

http://funschool.kaboose.com/parent-teacher/5-6/games/index.html

Y.N

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmcam/prep/prep_6.html

This website helps 6graters be prepared for the startest try it.

Educational 6th grade math website

http://aaamath.com/
 the website lets you learn multipliyibg aalgebra and some other math problems you could learn

6th grade languague arts practice test

http://www.iq.poquoson.org/2008vasol/6rdg/6rdg08.htm

This website gives you a story and then gives you questions like in the test.
        
                                              J.B

http://internet4classrooms.com/

this is a fun educational website that teaches you different skills from language arts, to math algebra. It is usefull for all grades 

Math Help

This website may help you if you are having problems with math it has from grades Pre-k to middle school!
The website is very helpful it has all the lessons you need to cover for the grade you'r in. Check it out! It may help you  A.R.

http://www.softschools.com/math/

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/setting.htm



Bryan Oropeza

Its a link that lets you describe a setting picture,like lightning and other scenarios.