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October
We're learning to use the Internet
"Leaf" it to us! We'll know these terms in no time.
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window |
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menu bar |
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address bar |
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tool bar |
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Check out the
iSeek Education search engine.
Give these October web lessons a try:
History of Halloween
Read about how Halloween started, play games and activities
on the history channel.
FEMA Fire Safety
Read about fire safety and try some safety activities.
Can you spot all the hazards in the Hazard House?
October is Fire Safety Month
NYS Fire Safety for Kids
Do you know about Operation Edith?
Help Sparky Out
Fire safety activities for non-readers too.
Brain Pop Autumn Leaves
Watch a movie and take a quiz. Listen carefully!
Clean Up the Classroom
Germbuster badges and worksheets
Autumn Leaf Scrapbook
Leaf Invaders
NOT AVAILABLE when checked - moved to November Autumn Acrostic Poem Worksheet
Use online dictionaries, online rhyming dictionaries, and thesauri to create your poem.
Science Made Simple-Why Do Leaves Change Color in Fall?
Why Do Leaves Change Color from EEK
Daylight Saving Time
What's that all about?
Daylight Saving Time Around the World
from Info Please
Identifying Time
Good for class presentation on TV monitor.
Then try
Willie the Watchdog*
It's a 2 player activity.
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Fact Dash*
Set the timer to 1-minute for a mad minute type activity.
Spooky Monster Numbers* and Haunted Alphabet*
from
Fun School & Kaboose
Fishin' Mission
Be careful!
Use the Paint program and digital camera
to illustrate how you'll dress up for Trick or Treating.
Here are some examples:
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Crossword
The Atoms Family
Bats
interesting information
Crayola Crafts - Black Bat Silhouette
Login, read, and follow directions to try this clever watercolor technique. Be sure to bring supplies!
Bonus: Use an online dictionary to pronounce and define "silhouette" and "echolocation".
Apple Corps
virtual pumpkin decorating, learn about radio buttons & splash pages
Farmer Ken's Virtual
Pumpkin Carving
Radio buttons select features. Also offers pumpkin facts and online quiz.
Virtual Pumpkin Decorating
from Ben & Jerry's
Drag & drop the decorations out of the basket and onto your pumpkin.
Professor Garfield's Pumpkin Patch
Listen carefully and hover over each pumpkin to hear the ending sound.
Carve a Pumpkin
from Cub Pack 81
Peetnik Mysteries of Clutterbuck Valley
Read and put on your thinking cap!
Try to solve the Mystery of Smelly Jelly.
Print the newspaper article telling of your success.
Mystery.net
Columbus' Voyage Maps & Ships
Make a map and ships to trace Columbus' journey.
Learn to save or copy a
world outline map, open it in Paint, and draw Columbus's journey while on the computer.
Christopher Columbus and the Great Age of Exploration
and Other New World Explorers (categorized by country of origin)
from
WorldBook Student Activities
Web Hunt - Christopher Columbus
Whaddaya Know Quiz Shows
Christopher Columbus plus several other topics offered.
Crack the Code
A latitude and longitude - map activity. Teachers, click
Acrostic Wizard from Read, Write, Think
to create a poem about New Jersey
Include the names of New Jersey towns, places of interest, and people.
Include interesting information and photo (not clipart) illustrations along with a map.
Achoo!
Crawford the Cat
What does Crawford say you should do
when you're sick so that you won't spread germs?
Use the writing processor to list all the rhyming words you hear in Crawford's videos.
Watch
Crawford Washes His Hands too.
Put your headset on and listen as you read along with these and more.
These are terrific displayed on the large TV monitor or projection screen.
Book Pals, Storyline
Watch and listen as terrific stories are read by
Tia & Tamera, Amanda Bynes, Melissa Gilbert, Al Gore, and others.
Mrs. Cannon recommends, "A Bad Case of Stripes" read by Sean Astin..
TEACHERS, accompanying activities and lesson plans with each story.
Tip: click "Large" for the best video display.
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Shareware e-Books
You'll be prompted to download the DNL plug-in if you don't have it.
The Children's Section lists several stories.
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On RIF
FEATURED STORIES FREQUENTLY CHANGE.
Check RIF's site for current stories.
Follow-up "Pink and Purple Pumpkins"
by using the Paint program to create your own unusually colored items.
Follow-up "Nat & Pat Have a Spat"
with word, Power Point, or paint to
create your own rhyming sentences or story. Pick a word out of a hat and rhyme away!
Check out the
Monthly Activity Calendar
and online activities.
Sylvan Dell Publishing
Loads of follow-up activities:
Creative Minds, AR quizzes at a discount, Story Time Crafts, online Comprehension Quizzes, fact sheets, Teaching Activities, mp3 audio,
Special Days Calendar, and much more.
Johnny Appleseed Hidden Picture
Find other Johnny Appleseed activities
on our
Holiday & Special Events page
Math Attack*
I Know That*
Leon's Math DoJo, Math Movies, and more
WHOMP!
Read the directions together to know how to play.
Multiplication Station from Weekly Reader
Use Excel to create a Score Sheet
Calculate your best score. Can you explain which formula you would use?
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Computers, Gadgets & Guts
Let's see what's inside.
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Cracking Open an iPod Nano
Notice the temperature warning. Is it a good idea to leave it in a car on a hot day? |
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Cracking Open the Apple iPhone
Our camera is an 8-megapixel; how does that compare to the iPhone camera?
This one has a near tragic ending! |
Origami Pumpkin
Bring an orange piece of paper. Read and follow directions
Add stems and leaves to create a pumpkin patch display.
Oh my Word! We're making Treat Cans.
Right-click and save this
template to begin.
Carefully double-click the Word Art Name on each label to edit.
Print, trim, and wrap around can. Fill with treats.
Trim with raffia and share.
TIPS: font used for names is "Girls are Weird" - free download on Internet.
Pampered Chef can openers work well to prepare cans for "re-sealing".
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What is "ghosted"? 
