Case of the Lost Boy Hillestad Butler, Dori

http://www.mysterynet.com/learn/lessonplans/vocab.worksheet.shtml

http://www.albertwhitman.com/resources/BookResources/8/documents/aw310_05_buddy1.pdf
http://www.albertwhitman.com/resources/BookResources/9/documents/aw510.06_buddy-guide_20122.pdf
http://www.kidswriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/buddy-crossword-puzzle.pdf
http://www.kidswriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/buddy-maze.pdf
http://www.islma.org/pdf/monarch/Lost%20boy.pdf

 http://2011-bluebonnet-book-club.wikispaces.com/The+Case+of+The+Lost+Boy


Chapter 1: The P-O-U-N-D

Chapter 2: My Name is King
Chapter 3: Stranger Danger

Chapter 4: Nose to the Ground
Chapter 5: Jelly Donut and Plain Donut

Chapter 6: Smells Like a Kidnapping
Chapter 7: What Do I Know?

Chapter 8: Smells Scary
Chapter 9: How to Talk Human

Chapter 10: At the Top of the Moving Stairs

detective
mystery
four lakes Minnesota
National Guard
kidnapping
Stakeout



How Does King escape The pound?
How did he get the name King?
Whats Kings new name?
how far is Connor's house from Kayla's?
Do you think Mouse was a good name for Kings friend? Why?
If you met mouse for the first time like Connor what would your reaction be?
Why would a scent disappear in the middle of the road?
Who are Jelly Donut and Plain Donut?
Was Connor At the park? what was the mix up?
Was the Scary guy a bad man after all?
The Cat solved the mystery what was the clues he helped with?
King has to use clues to speak to mom about what he figured out. what were they?
What were kings Feelings to finding the boy?
If King loves something to eat he immediately says what after he says he loves it?

Explorer Kibuishi, Kazu

What did all the stories have in common?
here is a hint
http://www.gatheringbeauty.com/2014/09/diy-origami-gift-boxes.html#.VHqhcDHF-So

where any of them real?

Which was your favorite and why?

do you think the wax doll was bad or jelous? why?
what rule did she have to break in order to put the doll away?

In the 2nd story the boy is cleaning out his closet and has a stuffed animal that looks like a movie character what is the movie?  Bonus if you know what he is.

Who is the boy running from after putting an object on Ebuy?

what was his aunts problem that was favorable in the story but might not be in real life?
what happened to the vase and the object at his aunts house?

what happens in the labrynth?
he gets a small amount of treasure out of an object what was the treasure?
what were some of the things the horned man imagined them to be?
what do we find out the Horned man has a lot of?
Do you think the horned man is sharing his loot by filling the object for company?

what kept taking the butter?
what did Grandma trap it in?
what happened to the boy when he peeked inside to see it?
He made a deal with it to change back what was it?
the thing almost did not follow through with his word what was there when the boy brought up the promise to make him follow through?
what was the nice thing the boy did at the end?

who wanted to take revenge on thier fathers death the son or the daughter?
A magic object helps someone see spirits. what was the object?
Who saw the spirits?
What spirits did the person see?
in the end the son puts something in his coat. Do you think he is the wanderer or he was also visited by the wanderer? why?

Do you think the aliens granpa gave him a promotion because of his relation?
what was the question mark box?
he finds out why it was not computing in his files later after cleaning up a huge mess what does he find out the reason for the box/
He gives the box to someone else with another drawing on it. do you think it was nice or fair? Tell me why.

what was the shape of the alien ship that picks up the boy?
they show the boy the future. how far in the future dd they show him?
Will this affect anyone his family and friends anytime soon?
Do you think the boy really had the option to live with the aliens?
Do you think the boy made a wise a choice even though it was his dream to see space? why?

Snowflake Bentley Briggs Martin, Jacqueline

http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/2007/12/advent-day-1-sn.html

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Teaching Ideas: Using a camera and microscope, students could study and catalog different snowflake formations. (Teachers could check with local high school teachers about borrowing equipment for the project.) Students could also do research to learn more about Wilson Bentley using the web site below. The contrast between the narrative of the story and the more factual sidebars provides an opportunity to study writing styles. Pair this book with Snowflakes in Photographs by W.A. Bentley, a book of Bentley's snowflake photographs. web site: www.snowflakebentley.com/http://mercury.educ.kent.edu/database/eureka/detail_book.cfm?BooksID=519 http://printables.scholastic.com/printables/detail/?id=49280&FullBreadCrumb=%3Cdiv%3E2617+%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scholastic.com%2Fbrowse%2Fsearch%2F%3FNtx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26_N%3Dfff%26Ntk%3DSCHL30_SI%26query%3Dsnowflake%2Bbentley%26N%3D0%26y%3D9%26Ntt%3Dsnowflake%2Bbentley%26x%3D22%22+class%3D%22endecaAll%22%3E%3Cimg+alt%3D%22%22+src%3D%22%2Fbrowse%2Fimages%2Fsearch_filters_remove.png%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fa%3E%3C%2Fdiv%3E%3Cdiv+class%3D%22filter_high_guard%22%3E%3C%2Fdiv%3E%3Cp+class%3D%22clear%22%3E%3C%2Fp%3E http://www.snowflakebentley.com/ http://www.nancypolette.com/LitGuidesText/snowflake.htm http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/snowflakebentley.html http://www.eduscapes.com/library/s/snowflake_bentley.htm http://www.vickiblackwell.com/lit/bentley.html http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec03/volvox.html annual snowbelt Jericho Vermont lake Champlain mount Mansfield Encyclopedia Butterflies apple blossoms How much were cows in the early 1900s? how much for 10 of them?

Magic Half Annie Barrows

http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/35030-the-magic-half-by-annie-barrows

http://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/files/themagichalfteachersguide.pdf

What was special about Miri's Family?

What was Miri's friends name she had before moving?

burrowing   (p. 2 PB)  descended   (p. 57 PB)  

wafted     (p. 2 PB) clattered   (p. 97 PB)  

mayhem     (p. 3 PB)   

geothermal   grime contemplated 

abruptly     (p. 103 PB)  

vigorously   (p. 8 PB)     ballistic     (p. 104 PB)  

grandeur     (p. 12 PB)     squabbled   (p. 113 PB)  

gossamer   (p. 13 PB)     tortoiseshell   (p. 114 PB)  

blowzy     (p. 15 PB)

decagon

hoisted     (p. 117 PB)  

sweltering   (p. 25 PB)     contraption   (p. 120 PB)  

solemn     (p. 39 PB)     sweltering   (p. 131 PB)  

furtive     (p. 44 PB)     catatonic   (p. 137 PB)

 Resources and Ideas for Using The Magic Half with Students
by Christine Boral, educational consultant
WRITING PROMPTS:
These prompts can help you use The Magic Half to inspire writing. By making text-to-self connections in writing, children can interact creatively with literature. These writing prompts are suitable for papers or journaling.
1.
On page 116, Miri imagines having to describe Astroturf to Molly:
She looked at the bright Astroturf in front of the fast-food place. Now that was totally weird. She imagined trying to explain Astroturf to Molly—it’s fake grass that doesn’t look like grass, and everybody knows it’s fake, but they put it on the ground and everyone pretends it’s real.
Think about something that has been invented or become popular in the last ten years (for example: iPods, cellphones, tapioca drinks). How would you describe it to someone who has never seen or experienced or even heard of it?
2.
In Chapter 12, Miri thinks about time and whether the present day as she knows it would be different if she could go back in time and change something. She thinks about the chip in her kitchen floor caused by a frying pan that had been dropped in the past. She wonders “But if the past changes, wouldn’t that make everything different in the present?”
If you could change something in the past, what would it be? Would it be something historical or personal? How would that change affect the present day as you know it? Would things be better or worse? Describe.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
In The Magic Half, author Annie Barrows uses homographs (a word with the same spelling as another or others but with a different meaning, and sometimes, a different pronunciation) to show differences between the eras in which characters Miri and Molly live.
Page 51:
Homograph: Great
Miri tried to remember what she had learned in fifth-grade history. 1935. What was going on in 1935? Was it flappers and the Charleston? No, that’s the twenties, she thought. Uh-oh. The Depression. The thirties were the Great Depression. “Great!” she moaned.
Molly looked at her with interest. It was the first non-sobbing noise she had made in a long time. “What?”
“1935! Right in the middle of the Great Depression! I have to get stuck in the Depression! Sheesh!”
“I never heard anybody call it ‘great’ before,” said Molly.
“Great like big, not like terrific.”
“Oh.”
Page 179
Homograph: Cool
“How do I work it?” Molly asked, frowning at the CD player.
Miri knelt besides her. “See, just press this button, right here—” She pressed, and Deathbag’s howls and screams came, very quietly, from the speaker.
Molly was fascinated. “What’s that? Why are they screaming like that?”
“It’s music. Robbie and Ray think it’s supercool.” Miri rolled her eyes.
“What do you mean, cool?”
“Cool means—um—good, popular.” Molly nodded, but Miri wasn’t sure she got it.
Activity:
Create a homograph list or graph. List other homographs you can think of. Here’s one to start:
Lick = taste, eat or defeat
Now use them in sentences to show different meanings and context:
You can lick an ice cream cone or lick someone in a fight.
VISUAL ARTS/SOCIAL STUDIES:
Comparing Periods in Time
Visuals can communicate information without words. In The Magic Half, the reader and characters travel between modern-day twenty-first century and the year 1935—or the decades of the 2000’s and 1930’s. Author Annie Barrows gives the reader clues to help him/her have a sense of what these time periods look, sound and smell like. For example, she uses an old iron bed, old doll carriage, a pigpen by the barn and books on the shelf like Little Women and Eight Cousins to give a sense of time and place to the reader. She also uses the sense of smell and sound: “Nothing buzzed or beeped or rang. The air smelled less like cars and more like animals.”
Imagine you were transported back in time and landed in your house and neighborhood. Choose one of the following: 25, 50, 75 or 100 years ago. What year is it? Research details from the internet, books in the library or old magazines from that period of time.
Were there cars and if so, what did they look like? What type of clothing was worn? What did product packaging look like (for example, gum or Coca Cola)? Hair styles? What were the popular books?
Folding a piece of construction paper in half, create a collage featuring the current time period on one side and the period from the past on the other. Cut out, photo copy or print out illustrations and images you find. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences.
Using the same media above, research details from present time vs. the period from the past. What was the cost of 1 gallon of milk? Cost of 1 dozen eggs? A car or bicycle? A suit or pair of shoes?
Make a chart or Venn diagram to illustrate the differences between current day and the time period chosen.
Creating a Time Capsule
Create a time capsule for someone your age in the future. What would you include in the capsule? What items could you include to give that person a sense of history, popular food or drink, literature, environment, clothing, pop culture like music or TV and activities you like?
MATH:
On the website, www.anniebarrows.com/magichalf/stuff/ author Annie Barrows wrote interesting facts about twins including the mathematical probability of having twins. The odds of having two sets of twins in one family is roughly 1 in 50,000.
Although it’s not very common for this to happen, let’s imagine your family had two sets of twins plus you:
Think about the last 5 things that were purchased for you. For example, the last pair of sneakers, the last birthday present, or the last book you bought.
Create a chart listing the last 5 things that were purchased for you. Research the cost of each item and list that. Calculate how much money would be needed to purchase all of these items for your new big family with two sets of twins.
Take this exercise further. Calculate how much your family’s grocery bill would expand if you now had two sets of twins in your family. Would your current car fit all of you? If not, how much would a new car cost? What about your house? Is there enough room?

http://www.pinterest.com/grannypat72548/clotheslines/

Stick Dog - Tom Watson

http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/feature/class-acts/winter-2013/Tom-Watson-yearbook.pdf

http://stickdogbooks.com/index.php/parents_and_educators

Discussion Questions

1. What are the characteristics of Stick Dog and his friends Poo-Poo, 

Karen, Mutt, and Stripes? How do you think they became friends?

2. Why are Stick Dog and his friends always in search of food? Why are 

hamburgers their favorite food?

3. Stick Dog and his friends come up with an elaborate plan to distract a 

family cooking hamburgers outside. What is their plan? Does it work out?

4. Create another dog that could be friends with Stick Dog and the gang. 

Draw your animal in stick form too! Make sure to include details like 

the animal’s name, how they met Stick Dog, and their favorite food.

http://www.thepageturn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Class-Acts-Summer-Reading-Guide.pdf

Elska - Catherine Hapka

Foal
Dam
sire
Tolting
polomino
geyser
hot spring
rettir
Icelandic
circa
artic fox
garments
mingled
neighbors  
expression
ocasionally
autumn
dismounted
mount
cocked an ear
inconvenience
apology
cautioned
ponied to
volcanic
weariness
instincts
anxiously
bleating
nickered

http://www.iceland.is/
http://www.iceland.is/iceland-abroad/us/education-and-culture/iceland-for-kids/
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/horse-terminology/
http://www.clubponypals.com/

Melonhead Katy Kelly chapter 21-

difficult
horrible
delicious
nutritious
mercy
maturity
underestimating
extreme
galore
apolagizing

extension
hilarious
centipede
recess
cocktail
library of congress

brilliant
coughing
perfume
decoration
calcium

bending bones in vinegar
Alexander Graham Bell
lie detectors

1. , where does the main character
Melonhead live?
Washington D.C
2. After Melonhead told his story to
the class,
Mrs. Timony talked
about his use of detail.
3. After Melonhead watched the
baby, he and Sam...
experimented on
diapers.
4. Ashley decided to sign up for the
Challenge because
the winner would go
on a trip.
5. Because Melonhead and Sam's
team kept making flops,
Sam started working by
himself.
6. Because Melonhead's mother
heard sounds in the closet,
a trapping man came
to the house.
7. How did Melonhead's mother
learn that Melonhead had been
roof-running?
Dr. Bowers had seen
Melonhead jump over
the skylight.
8. Lucy Rose was having a hard
time...
keeping the dog in the
fence.
9. Melonhead climbed onto the
dinner table because
he was looking for the
mouse.
10. Melonhead couldn't use the
Reflecting Pool for the
submarine because
the water wasn't deep
enough.
11. Melonhead knew he was in
trouble when his father...
came home in a taxi.
12. Melonhead tied the string to the
snake because he...
wanted it to track the
mouse.
13. Mrs. Alswang screamed when
Sam...
showed her the mouse.
14. Sam and Melonhead _____ the
snake.
bought mice to feed to
15. Sam found the snake when he... fell in the wet grass.
16. The students laughed at
Melonhead when he...
popped out with a
stocking on his head.
17. To show his parents that he was
sorry, Melonhead did what?
made them breakfast in
bed.
18. What did Melonhead get his foot
stuck in?
A tree
19. What did the students do at Mr.
Santalices's after-school
meeting?
They shared their
reinvention ideas.
20. What happened when Ashley
tried to grab the snake box?
She fell on her
backpack.
21. What is Melonhead's real name? Adam Melon
22. What was the name of
Melonhead's invention?
The Rescuer
23. When Ashley answered
questions about the lie detector,
her father helped
answer them.
24. When baby Julia got the snake... she put it in her
parents' bed.
25. When he _____, Melonhead
found the lost snake.
reached in his pocket
for cereal
26. When he _____, Melonhead won
Homework of the Week.
wrote about his head
lice experience
27. When he and Sam built the
periscope, Melonhead
used his mother's
mirrors.
28. When he arrived at the tree, Gus
did what?
packed ice around
Melonhead's ankle.
29. When it slipped out of the string,
the snake
went under the stove.
30. When Melonhead climbed
Madam and Pop's tree,
his foot got stuck in a
hole.
31. When Melonhead picked up the
cereal box,...
the corner had been
chewed.
32. When Melonhead put the cast on
Sam,...
plaster turned the
floor white.
33. When Mr. Santalices drew a
funny picture, Melonhead
fell backwards in his
chair.
34. When the Rescuer took first
place, Melonhead and Sam
had their pictures
taken.
35. Who gave Melonhead his
nickname?
Lucy Rose
36. Who is the author of Melonhead? Katy Kelly
melonhead
Study online at quizlet.com/_h4p4t

Melonhead katy kelly chapter 13-20

unlimmited
tutti-frutti
masterpiece
vegetarian
pharmacist
artificial
limmited edition
expression
skylight
serious


fatigue
exhausred
anxiety
frusterated
bunions
situations
refining

Melonhead- Katy Kelly Chapter 10-12

cystals
recycle
hoot owls
unexpected
using light to start a fire
rainbows

fight the bite:
part1- thousand bats
look up bats
part 2-body protector

carbon dioxide
transporter
Albert Parkhouse

Write a poem about the book like page 90 by lucy rose

expensive
percent
liberty
reasonable
ecstatic
contribute
century
day dreaming
chocolate bread pudding
surprise
washington wizards
completely
pernission
terrarium
comfortable

sleep mask sleep hat
lone ranger
eastern market
honeydew melon
baby elevator
avalanche
super-absorbent
digesting

Melonhead-Katy Kelly Chapter 7-9

a red-letter day
In the past, special days would be marked with red letters making it a red letter day 
Honor
congratulations
praise
avalanche
the star
Excellant
adjectives
masterpiece
louse
nits
lice
http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/common/head_lice.html
The best safest easiest way to treat is to saturate mayonaise all over your hair and scalp. Then cover your head with a grocery bag to keep them from getting out. the oil suffucates them and loosens there eggs. just use a nit comb and comb out mayonaise into garbage. once hair has been combed through really good just shampoo and wash all materials that may be infected. retreat if needed but I have seen it work better than RID.
personal
ashamed
confused
proud

Frankenberries

garter snake
http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Thamnophis_sirtalis/
http://www.gartersnake.info/care/
Temple Sinai
expirements with food
cobra
condo
loafer
penguin
bologna

congress market

african drums

Kennedy center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts

vamoose

scrambeled eggs
cheese casserole
clementines
natural bug spray
http://wellnessmama.com/2565/homemade-bug-spray/
mosquito
http://insected.arizona.edu/skeeterinfo.htm
quartz

frankenstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84


concussion
revolting
reptilian
http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/snakes/facts01.htm

experience
don't fancy

Melonhead-Katy Kelly chapter 5-6

jackpot
matzo ball soup
state capitol song
pasteling
self potrait
respect
school property
Grover Cleveland
four leaf clover
pansies
refreshed
magnolia
elbow piping
bamboozled
reflection
periscope
magnifying




Thomas Doughtywas not the first to invent the periscope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope


Cornelius van Drebbel

Cornelis Drebbel,  (born 1572, Alkmaar, Neth.—died Nov. 7, 1633, London), Dutch inventor who built the first navigable submarine.

An engraver and glassworker in Holland, Drebbel turned to applied science and in 1604 went to England, where King James I became his patron. He devised an ingenious “perpetual motion clock,” actuated by changes in atmospheric pressure and temperature, which greatly enhanced his reputation. In 1620 he completed his “diving boat.” Propelled by oars and sealed against the water by a covering of greased leather, the wooden vessel travelled the River Thames at a depth of 12 to 15 feet (about 4 metres) from Westminster to Greenwich. Air was supplied by two tubes with floats to maintain one end above water.

Drebbel also discovered the use of tin compounds as mordants for cochineal, a scarlet dye, and suggested a method of making sulfuric acid by the oxidation of sulfur. Among many other inventions attributed to him are the compound microscope, an improvedthermometer, and self-regulating ovens.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/171268/Cornelis-Drebbel

reflection pool

reflecting pool a waste of water?

zip-a-dee-doo-dah

MelonHead-Katy Kelly Chapter 3-4

"What do the Jaws of Life look like?" Sam Asked
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/accidents-hazardous-conditions/jaws-life2.htm

Jack hammer, cutter part, and spreader part.
"....Foot has about a hundred and twenty-five thousand sweat glands," I said. "All mine were working."
http://www.everydayhealth.com/foot-health-pictures/funky-feet-facts.aspx

Wright Brothers
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/wright-brothers

invent
explode
headache
curiosity / curious
magnificent
balancing
challenge
reinventions
remote control
metropolitan
semifinals
continental breakfast
certificate
trophy
savings bond
Philadelphia
national
competition
New York city
logbook
everglades
vote
bill


http://www.dsokids.com/activities-at-home/make-instrument/tin-can-telephone.aspx
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Play-Telephone
http://www.viralnova.com/product-reinventions-cool/

Thomas Edison
http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-edison-9284349#synopsis
http://www.nps.gov/edis/forkids/a-brief-biography-of-thomas-edison.htm
joseph gayetty and zeth wheeler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper

http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/old/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_metropolitan_area

http://nationalpeanutboard.org/the-facts/fun-facts/

Walter Hunt
http://www.sjmv.org/Campus/Class/scinventors/safetypin/SafetyPin.html

Melonhead-Katy Kelly Chapter 2

congressman's speech
a big-picture man
election
speeches
florida
MelonHead and his dad Live in Washington D.C. Why is his father trying to get on T.V. for Florida?

http://www.congressforkids.net/Elections_electoralmap.htm

footage
chattering
space blanket
mylar
http://www.grafixplastics.com/mylar_what.asp

Great Dane

thwook
rolling bed
oxygen tank
blood pressure measurer
special cloth
crooked scissors
electric towel
Neosporin
lime green bandage
http://video.about.com/firstaid/Tour-of-an-Ambulance.htm

Tongue

melonhead- katy kelly chapter 1

Melonhead though it looked like a stinky weed and planned to use it to make deodarant with it. The nieghbor told him it was

Even though it was mostly green at the time.

The Nieghbor was walking her black poodle with pink tutu. the other was wearing

The new black hightop  converse was stuck in a tree in hole through the v in the tree

see you Anthology melonhead and his friend do

Melonhead wants and is an inventor   watch others hereThe greatest inventions with Bill Nye

Create inventions on line

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/teachers_guides/9780385904261.pdf

http://www.clotureclub.com/2012/03/whats-the-light-on-top-of-the-capitol-building/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol_dome

http://insight.randomhouse.com/widget/v2/?width=600&height=800&isbn=9780440421870&author=KELLY%2C%20KATY&title=Melonhead

Averted

Avoided

Aversion

Magnolia

Carraige house

Tragedy

terrorize

deodarant

lavendar

caulk

apricot

breezeway roof

olive oil

converse

deportment

capital dome

howling hyenas

panic

hook and ladder truck/ cherry picker

hullabaloo

bagpipe

kilt

Howliday Inn by James Howe (Bunnicula series)

This Book was super cute but Bunicula was not in it. It can be read as a stand alone book and you would not feel lost in the series.

http://ltl.learningally.org/SiteData/docs/Howliday_I/9fcfaebecf8d30f2/Howliday_Inn_LP.pdf

http://quizlet.com/3594870/howliday-inn-1-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/14670/howliday-inn-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/9020201/howliday-inn-ch-1-4-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/7026986/howliday-inn-chapters-1-4-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/9020363/howliday-inn-ch-1-4-french-phrases-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/7027328/howliday-inn-chapters-5-6-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/9211150/howliday-inn-ch-5-8-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/7027460/howliday-inn-chapters-7-8-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/7027604/howliday-inn-chapters-9-10-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/7027744/howliday-inn-chapters-11-12-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/9211311/howliday-inn-ch-9-epilogue-flash-cards/

The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Witches

by

Roald Dahl

Dispicable
http://www.roalddahl.com/create-and-learn/teach/teach-the-stories/the-witches-lessons

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/books/thewitches.htm
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/pdfs/The_Witches_Activity_Booklet.pdf
http://kecstehlikreading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Reading+Unit+-+The+Witches.docx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_JrGB1TR4&index=3&list=PLDJIqrrPuaVZggB8NOA_3L3H-yGDGFQEH

saved pages on my compy to keep.

Right click and say to go to after highlighting it if it does not have a hyper link:

http://www.sfreading.com/resources/ghb.html
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
https://www.lds.org/friend/online-activities/activities/articles-of-faith-memory-quest
http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/resources
http://www.ixl.com/ela/
http://www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com/handwriting_practice_worksheet_maker.html
http://always-icecream.com/login
http://www.kiddierecords.com
http://www.wegivebooks.org/login
http://www.education.com/workbooks/
http://gws.ala.org/
https://www.khanacademy.org/
http://www.nasa.gov/
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=educators.notebookseries
https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/index.html
http://www.time4learning.com/
http://www.bookitprogram.com/summer/default.asp
http://www.exploreandmore.org/world/default.htm
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/
http://www.pppst.com/
http://www.uen.org/

My family safety approved list for my daughter


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My Pins of websites in some what organized educational order

 http://www.pinterest.com/anchorageb2/

Booklist for grade 3-6th

This is a booklist for grades 3-6th that I have gather from battle of the books sites for years 13-15

Angleberger	Fake Mustache…
Applegate, Katherine	The One and Only Ivan
Atwater, Richard	Mr. Popper's Penguins
Avi	SOR Losers
Babbitt	Tuck Everlasting
Beaty	Dorko the Magnificent
Birney	The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
Birney	The World According to Humphrey
Blume	Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Blume, Judy	Freckle Juice
Breitrose	Mousenet
Brittain, Bill	The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
Bulla	The Chalk Box Kid
Bulla, Clyde Robert	A Lion to Guard Us
Byars	Wanted… Mud Blossom
Byars, Betsy	Tornado
Carlson	Magic Marks the Spot
Cervantes	Gaby, Lost and Found
Chapman-Willis	Dog Gone
Cheng	The Year of the Book
Christopher, John	The White Mountains
Christopher, Matt	Ice Magic
Cleary	Ralph S. Mouse
Cleary	Ribsy
Cleary, Beverly	Muggie Maggie
Coerr	Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Cohen, Barbara	Molly's Pilgrim
Cole	Magic School Bus: "Inside the Earth"
Cole	A Nest for Celeste
Cooney	Miss Rumphius
Coville	Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Creech	Ruby Holler
Cronin	The Trouble with Chickens
Crum	Thomas and the Dragon Queen
Cynthia	Lord Touch Blue
Dahl	The BFG
Dahl	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Davies, Jacqueline	Tricking the Talyman
DiCamillo	The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
DiCamillo, Kate	Because of Winn-Dixie
Dowell, Frances	Phineas L. MacGuire…Erupts!: The First Experiment
Edwards	Who Was Leonardo DiVinci?
Erickson	The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog
Fitzgerald	The Great Brain
Fleischman	McBroom and the Wonderful One Acre Farm
Fleischman, Sid	By the Great Horn Spoon!
Fleming, Candace	Boxes for Katje
Flournoy, Valerie	The Patchwork Quilt
Fritz, Jean	The Great Little Madison
Fritz, Jean	What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
Gannett, Ruth Stiles	My Father's Dragon
Gardiner	Stone Fox
George, Jean	My Side of the Mountain
Gipson, Fred	Old Yeller
Grabenstein, Chris	Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
Graff	Double Dog Dare
Grandits	Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems
Gutman	The Million Dollar Shot
Hahn, Mary Downing	Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Hannigan	Ida B
Harkrader	The Adventures of Beanboy
Hobbs, Valerie	Sheep
Jacques, Brian	Redwall
Kelly	Melonhead
King-Smith, Dick	Harry's Mad
Klise	Regarding the Fountain
Konigsburg	From the mixed-up Files of Mrs.Basil E. Frankweller
Korman	Swindle
Korman	No More Dead Dogs
Kurtz	The Adventures of a South Pole Pig
LaFaye	Worth
Lee	Nim and the War Effort
Lee	Elvis and the Underdogs
L'Engle, Madeleine	A Wrinkle in Time
Levine, Gail Carson	Ella Enchanted
Limbaugh, Rush	Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims
Lin	Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Lin, Grace	Starry River of the Sky
Lobel	Fables
Lord, Cynthia	Rules
Lowry	All About Sam
Lowry, Lois	Number the Stars
MacLachlan	Sarah, Plain and Tall
MacLachlan	Waiting for the Magic
Manes, Stephen	Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Martin, Ann	A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
Mass	11 Birthdays
Mass	The Candymakers
McSwigan	Snow Treasure
Messner	Capture the Flag
Morpurgo	Kensuke's Kingdom
O’Connor, Barbara	The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester
O’Dell	Island of the Blue Dolphins
O’Dell	The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day
O’Reilly	Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
O'Brien	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Osborne	Buffalo Before Breakfast
Osborne	Tales from the Odyssey, Part One
Palacio, R.J.	Wonder
Paley	Hooper Finds a Family
Patrick	Carman
Paulsen, Gary	Hatchet
Pennypacker	The Talented Clementine
Pennypacker, Sara	Clementine
Perl	When Life Gives You O.J.
Peterson	The Littles
Pogue	Abby Carnelia’s One and Only Magical Power
Polacco	The Bee Tree
Porter, Connie Rose	Meet Addy: An American Girl
Probst	Stranded
Raskin	The Westing Game
Rawls	Summer of the Monkeys
Roberts, Willo Davis	Scared Stiff
Robinson	The Best School Year Ever
Rocklin	The Five Lives of our Cat Zook
Ruckman	Night of the Twisters
Ryan	Becoming Naomi Leon
Ryan, Pam Munoz	Esperanza Rising
Sachar, Louis	There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
Sanderson	Alcatraz VS the Evil Librarians
Scattergood	Glory Be
Scieszka, Jon	Knights of the Kitchen Table
Selfors	The Sasquatch Escape
Shurtliff	Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
Slote	Finding Buck McHenry
Smith, Roland	Sasquatch
Solo	Hope Solo: My Story (Young Readers' Edition)
Speare	Sign of the Beaver
Spinelli	Maniac Magee
Tolkien	The Hobbit
Tooke	King of the Mound
Trivas	The Wish Stealers
Tunnel	Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlifts Chocolate Pilot
Urban	A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Van Allsburg	Just A Dream
Vivian Vande Velde	8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel / 1 Dog = Chaos
Warner, Gertrude	Boxcar Children
Watts	Kizzy Ann Stamps
Wells, Rosemary	Lincoln & His Boys
White, E. B.	Charlotte's Web
Whitesides	Janitors
Wilder, Laura Ingalls	Little House in the Big Woods
Wiles	Each Little Bird that Sings
Wiles, Deborah	Love, Ruby Lavender
Williams	The Velveteen Rabbit (author also listed by the last name, Bianco)
Winthrop, Elizabeth	Castle in the Attic
Wrede	Dealing With Dragons

Astronomy unit study Outline

 What Is Astronomy?
Sun-solar flares and spots
Planets:
Mercury-
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto


Moon - phases, Solar Eclipse
gravity
Asteroids
Comets
Stars
satellites
planets and comets
constellations -Orion & Taurus, The Dippers, The Summer Triangle, Sagittarius & Scorpio
Solar System - Create a map of the solar system
Galaxies
star clusters, double stars, nebulas, constellations, red giants
Space
Distances in space
The beginning of the universe
Environments and materials in space
scientists
Astronauts
models of all the planet.
giant scale model of the solar system

My Astronomy Pins on pinterest

Halloween Movies that are G-PG-13

Scary G, PG, PG-13
Signs
Dark Shadows
Paranorman
The Haunting
The Sixth Sense
The Woman in Black
House at the End of the Street
The Others

Comedy G, PG, PG-13
Fun Size
Hotel Transylvania
Dark Shadows
Paranorman
Warm Bodies
Men in Black 3
Mirror Mirror

Haunted House
Haunted Mansion
Halloween Town

Monsters, Inc. 

Casper

Hocus Pocus
Twitches
E.T.
ghostbusters
Twilight Zone
The watchers in the woods
The Witches
scooby-doo
Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Creature From The Black Lagoon

December Break

Well we worked all summer to take the entire month of December off....so we thought.
We did tinker though.
So we did the hour of code this month for 3 hours.
Mostly this month we played Minecraft and I kept trying to explain programming to my daughter who wpuld ask me why this and that.
We expanded our village to see small villagers run around and get in our way. They kept falling into our mines. My daughter would say oh maybe the villagers will..... (put something in here to them being alive and having emotions here). Over and over again I explain they are just a program with instructions.  You can't ( whatever her idea is ) to make them mad or happy.
They can have babys ,now what? It must be very disapointing for her.
We sang songs and after Thanksgiving watched almost every free christmas movie available on Hulu.
My daughter had lost her two front teeth and listened to the song. They were peeking through by Christmas.
For Christmas she only asked for clothes. She got a piano keyboard and stacks of books instead. She always gets a years supply of lipgloss.. she recieved eyeshadow and finger nail polish too. Toothbrush, paste and floss as well.

All her clothes are in my room because she lost them for not keeping them off the floor and kept putting clean clothes back into the laundry.

Anyways back to educational stuff. Oh now I remember my route I was going to...we are in the process of cleaning up Holiday fun so we can get back to work come this January. I need to get is back on a schedule too.

She read tons of books instead of sleeping. I think she was rereading stuff. Sants gifts of books though came in handy and so did the schools partnership with Barnes snd Nobles to get her new reading material.  Most of them BOB books.
She woke me last night begging for more Ottoline books.
There not on kindle yet.:(

Checking out books with our own very large collection is bad. They get lost and finding them is is very burdensome. So if its not electronic its probably not happening because I can by the book with the fines we get. I hate buying books she finishes in an hour or two because a movie would be more worth it. Its value retention stays higher too.

Finished with 3rd (my first year of HS) on to 4th

So For 3rd grade I had  started out with The Family Homeschool curriculum. I was really excited it was Latter Day Saints based. I really want the gospel in my childs life and wanted the ease of the prophet messages that would go along with the lessons to be mixed in without having to the research myself. I had kept Time 4 Learning for Math and Back up.

Here is what I learned:

uhh how do I put this nicely. hmm oh ok lets try this....I think when I prayed about the program I bought and received revelation to purchase the package it was not to teach my child but to teach me.
A. I found out other people have different goals in the church than myself. I wanted Christ in my life but I felt like they were prepping my child for a College level religious theory class. It was just way to political for me and did not fit in with the lessons at all. We found testimonies and prophet talks that fit way better when we researched it ourselves. Most of the time they seemed to just appear. I know it was the Lords doing blessing my Homeschooling.
B. I supplemented the lessons because I thought they were leaving out stuff because it did not go in an order I felt organized. Since I did not read ahead I did not know it was going to be covered later. I supplemented like crazy and then later came across a chapter that covered it and if it didnt have anything new in it I just skipped it. Eventually I just stopped following the curriculum and so did my daughter. we did way more in day.
C. I had to do so much extra work having a religious curriculum to meet state standards we could not get to it all the way my child learns. My child likes to do one subject a day. It worked for us. she absorbed her lessons and would finish more than a weeks lessons in a single day. When we stopped using the curriculum I changed the ILP to remove it and took out all the extra things it seemed we never got to. That doesnt mean we quit all those lessons either it just means we no longer had to provide a work sample for them.
D. God still blessed my home and my child with things that seemed to just fit. Reassuring this was right..
My favortie examples are we were studying Egypt and Egyptian tomb was brought to the fair. My child ended up teaching everyone there how a mummy was made even using the word Nitron salts. When we were studying Rome our church put a Bethlehem thing for Christmas. There was Roman guards and taxes from ceasar.We all dressed up to be a part of it. The next one just could be the power of cookies on the internet but we still found it pretty amazing. My daughter just finished watching the history channel on Pompeii and what do you know later that night a movie trailer taking place in Pompeii and about the Volcano she just finished studying is being played in the Theaters. No we did not run out to watch it but we were very excited. That was just for Ancient History. There is more for zoology and Language arts... Oh I have to share the one for Language arts it should be blogged on here too at least the things on the book. We had just finished A Single Shard. The Author visited our Library and we got our book signed and shared with her the lessons her book inspired. She talked about her joy in writing and its a area my daughter has issues with, My daughter still repeats parts of her talk to me as if she is thinking about writing.


This year we will be making our own curriculum. my daughter has a healthy desire and is curious enough to learn things on her own. We will be generalizing everything on the ILP and learn things the fun way as they happen. Tuesdays and Thursdays will still be set aside for math and free time learning. We want to do a lot more science. Since my daughter is a hands on learner we need to play games and experiment to learn.

Our current plans are:
Math: Alaska Standards or Common Cores- Time 4 Learning or free printouts and internet games
Language Arts Reading: Its whatever she wants to read. I can not keep her away from books. There is a book trail wherever she goes. Quite litterally.
Language Arts Writing: Ok this is going to be a toughy. I bought a Curr ....SHHH SHHH yes I know I said I wouldnt. however this is an area where I am going to fork out my allotment. I bought consumable books for this and I also purchased IEW. I am willing to try it all. Anything PLEASE. We also Time 4 learning just in case too. Her IEP requires her to put pencil to paper and write something daily though and some king of typing program.
Science: Physics and Chemistry - with Easy Peasy. Astronomy and whatever else she wants to do with Time 4 Learning. Plus whatever Youtube or some other surprise science thing, she wants to try thing, pops up.
Social Studies: So here is the deal on this. I really would of liked to continued in order and done the Renaissance  using the The Story of the World and free downloadable lapbooks. However My daughter keeps expressing a deep desire to know her states and capitols. I am planning to print off some unit studies on the States and I am hoping when we finish we can continue with the Knights in shining armor but if not oh well. So Social Studies is going to be marked off As Common Core or Alaska State Standards and we will fit everything in.

Technology is not going to be put on the ILP this year but my husband ordered a technology program to do with his daughter EEME

Foreign Language Uh Yah that will never ever go on a ILP again. She wants to learn it all and yah thats just not happening. A few words here and there. it will be a free time learning thing from now on until Highschool.
P.E./Health: My daughter wants to know all bout the Human body. She is absorbing it like a sponge. I secretly hope maybe a nurse or doctor. LOL We got some dance videos for the winter. I have no problem getting this girl to excersize even with our 9 months of winter.

Music and Art will be free time too and not on the ILP just extras.