1. Go to the websites below and read the tales about Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill. While you're reading, try to see if you can figure out why tall tales are called "tall tales."

Paul Bunyan:

http://www.americanfolklore.net/paulbunyan.html

Pecos Bill:

http://www.americanfolklore.net/pecosbill.html

2. If your parents tell you to "Stop telling tales," what does that mean?

3. Go to: www.visuwords.com and type in the word exaggerate (make sure you get both the Gs in there). See if you can find 7 other words or phrases that describe what you might find in a tall tale.

Answer the three questions above in your own post titled: Tall Tales. Use: dlindsay, genre, tale in your keywords.

Now it's your turn:

In another post, called: My Tall Tale, write a tall tale involving a story about yourself. It could be some outrageous story about how you got to school today. Now's your chance to really lay it on thick!

     Structure your writing in a way that makes sense to you. To help make your blog more visual, feel free to use pictures that I took, found here: http://students.saugususd.org/dlindsay/files/194.

     To link a picture do this:

1. click on it
2. copy the web address
3. go to your own blog post
4. click the little picture of the tree
5. paste the web address in the space called "Image URL"

Having trouble remembering one of those rascally scientific words? Check out the USGS site that has every water word you could think of.

Want to learn more trivia about water from the people who brought your field trip to you? Check out: http://www.clwa.org/kids/

For the polyhedra, check out this demonstration:

Next, for the curved shapes, try this site recommended by Eddie: Drawing 3D Shapes

For your lettering, how about 3D lettering?! Learn how here.

For your information, use the notes that we created on our graphic organizer, look in your math book (check the glossary too), and review some facts about the number of edges, faces, and vertices of pyramids and prisms.

use key words: clements, dlindsay, literature, extension

Here are the directions:

http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-star-box.html

and someone demonstrating...

and another...

Pick three adaptations that you think make the flying squirrel a good substitute for Rudolph.

Make sure you give your squirrel a name. Alliteration works well; Freddie the Flying Squirrel and Gilly the Glider, are a couple of examples.

In each paragraph, describe one of the adaptations and why it will help on Christmas Eve. When you're done, summarize your reasons in a conclusion, and introduce your flying squirrel to Santa in your introduction.

If you'd like to draw an illustration for your story, try these links:

http://www.exploringnature.org/db/detail.php?dbID=46&detID=609

http://www.ratemydrawings.com/drawings/cartoons/287511.html

Share your story with the title: Santa's Dilemma

Here are some keywords that you can use: santa, adaptation, flying squirrel, holiday, writing, dlindsay

Feel free to post drawings of your flying squirrel too!

Here's my picture. It's Freda the Flying Squirrel in harness and air traffic control lights.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?id=33

Use this website: http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/rainforests/

to find your answers. One of the things that is great about this site is if you don't know a word, you can just double click it.

Here are the questions:

1. What is a rainforest?

2. What kinds of rainforest are there?

3. Why is there so little sunlight at ground level in a tropical rainforest?

4. List three animals you might find in a tropical rainforest.

5. List three animals you might find in a temperate rainforest.

6. What is the "canopy?"

7. What is an "evergreen?"

8. What is a "conifer?"

9. Follow one of the research links at the bottom of the site. Tell which topic you researched, and list some interesting facts you learned.

*Don't forget to include as keywords: dlindsay, rainforest, science, webhunt

Choose either Wells or Fargo as the subject of your cube. Refer to your notes and to your book for the details you need for the cube.

For the section of the cube asking for a quote, you'll have to make it up since there aren't direct quotes in the story. Just try to think of something that you think your person might probably say.

Print out the cube and assemble it.

As an extra  part to the assignment, try taking a screenshot to post to your blog.

Here's what you'll do:

Go to: http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/functionmachines.html

Explore the function machine program by choosing different functions, typing in a number, and observing the output.

After that, decide on a function, and then create an input output chart for it like we did in class.

On your blog, create a post called "Function Machine."

Inside the post, record the input output chart like this:

  x     y

 3      6

 7      10

10     13

Make sure you make your own function up. Make sure you record at least 3 pairs of input output. Don't tell us what your function is!

In the keywords section, use: dlindsay, function, input, output

Post!

Next week, you'll be able to look at other students' functions and try to guess what their function is (by posting your guess in a comment for their function).