Halloween only comes once a year. It is sad, except that you probably have a lot of candy at home to cheer you up for a few weeks!
My son and I like to sort our Halloween candy in different ways!
You could sort them by size:
Or, by wrapper color!
If you want to try sorting your candy these ways, click here for the labels!
Or, try sorting by type of candy and fill in a graph like this!
How did you sort your candy? Comment below!
In 2017, researchers off the Bulgarian coast discovered the oldest intact shipwreck ever found! This ancient Greek vessel was not only nearly 2,500 years old, but was just one of 65 shipwrecks found at the bottom of the Black Sea in remarkable condition. So, why does the Black Sea contain so many well-preserved shipwrecks? Helen Farr and Jon Adams dive into the depths of the unique body of water.
Click below to watch the video!
Once you’ve watched the video, click here to take a quiz!
Feel free to comment with your score below!
Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence—which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren’t linked clearly enough to the words they’re actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity.
#1 Read this teaching page to look over some modifier examples.
#2 Watch this TED Ed video and take detailed notes about modifiers and their placement and navigate the sticky world of misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers.
#3 Make a visual explaining modifiers with examples of how they are used. Also include your own sentence with a misplaced modifier and then correct the sentence so that the reader understands the meaning.
Challenge: Do more research about misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers. Include what you learned in your visual.
Do you love Axolotls? Learn more about the amazing Axolotl with this fun mini spark!
Step One: Read the Species Profile and answer these Reflection Questions. Axolotl Reading (Pages 1-2).
Step Two: Research. Find out even more by doing your own research. Use the sheet below as a guide (Description, Habitat, Diet, Lifespan, Conservation).
Step Three: Create! Show us what you learned about Axolotls in a creative way. Choose from one of the following options.
What is a Simile? The official definition of a simile is a noun that means: “a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.”
Step One: Watch this Brain Pop Jr. video about Similes
and this word girl video
Step Two: Look at the Simile list below. Whisper read a scenario for each one
Example: as sly as a fox
Hillary was ______________________ , as she to gingerly placed the fruit bat into her backpack.
Step Three: Watch and listen to the book, “My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks”. Click book image below.
Step Four: Write a “Simile Me”.
Here is my example:
1 – busy
2 – creative
3 – hardworking
4 – happy
5 – sleepy
I’m as busy as a timer,
As creative as a stained glass window,
As hardworking as an elephant,
As happy as a well-loved dog,
And as sleepy as a pillow.
Step Five: Use an app of your choice to create a fun illustration/visual of your “Simile Me”
Step Six: Send your “Simile Me” and illustration/visual to your EY Coordinator!
You may think every drop of rain falling from the sky, or each glass of water you drink, is brand new, but it has always been here, and is a part of the water cycle. At its most basic, the water cycle is how water continuously moves from the ground to the atmosphere and back again. As it moves through this cycle, it changes forms. Water is the only substance that naturally exists in three states on Earth – solid, liquid, and gas.
Over 96% of total global water is in the ocean, so let’s start there. Energy from the sun causes water on the surface to evaporate into water vapor – a gas. This invisible vapor rises into the atmosphere, where the air is colder, and condenses into clouds. Air currents move these clouds all around the earth.
Water drops form in clouds, and the drops then return to the ocean or land as precipitation, often rainfall. When it rains, the raindrops fall to the ground, and run off into a lake or river, which flows back into the ocean, where it starts the process again.
Have you ever thought about the journey a raindrop takes?
When you click on the link below, you will see a map of the continental United States.
This website allows for you to click anywhere on the map to drop a raindrop and follow its journey to the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic or the Pacific Oceans! Once you click, you’ll get a bird’s eye view of the path the raindrop takes!
Try it out! Then comment below with something that surprised you!
Did you know that there are awards for funny photographs of wildlife?
Born from a passion for wildlife, The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards began modestly in 2015 as a photographic competition.
Since then, it has grown into a worldwide competition seen by millions of people every year, and always with wildlife conservation at its heart.
The free competition, open to wildlife photography experts and beginners, celebrates the funniness of our natural world and highlights what we need to do to protect it. From a surprised otter to an angry turtle, Comedy Wildlife’s photographs bring a smile to everyone’s face.
Below is a link to a google slides presentation with some of the finalists for the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography awards.
Your job is to write something funny to go along with each photo!
Click the link below.
Make a copy of the slides. Now they are yours!
Write something funny on each slide to go along with each picture.
When you are finished, click on the yellow share button.
Share with the EY teacher at your building!
Swanson/Sunset: henningsen.jennifer@westside66.net
Westgate/Paddock Rd.: spady.lynn@westside66.net
Prairie Lane/Loveland/Westbrook: thompson.megan@westside66.net
Rockbrook/Oakdale/Hillside: sindt.kathleen@westside66.net
Even if a picture is worth a thousand words, it still needs a caption. Captions are easy to write if you begin with the basics. Let’s practice using the photo below.
Caption: A caption is text that gives additional information about a picture or illustration.
Example: Begin by brainstorming Who, What, When, Where, and How. Once you have written down these details from the photo, write a caption that gives these details and some additional information (use the checklist below).
Caption Writing Checklist:
Now, try one a few on your own!
Teachers: Ask your EY Coordinator for this 65 page resource (PDF), would be great for warms ups and exit tickets to help students practice caption writing!
