Hello Explorers!  Today we are going to explore the deep ocean floor. So take a deep breath prepare to spend an hour undersea. There are step by step directions on the blog to guide you through today´s exploration. Please have your blog open throughout the exploration. 
        We will begin our exploration  here 

1.       Read the top of the page and then scroll down to the first box that says "Peice" and click on  "Pangea"
2.        Read the page 

     Follow me as we explore a new webiste, where we will see actual video footage:

1.       Click  here to enter this ocean exploration. 1.      http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/forfun/creatures/
2.   On the right side of the page in the right TV screen it says “Select a Creature/Feature.”
3. Scroll down to the. Click on "Hydrothermal Vents".
4.   Watch the video (it may not work)
5.   Read the information in the right TV screen
6. Go back on page to the page where “Select a Creature/Feature" is and click on “Underwater volcanoes.” 
7.  Watch the video (it may not work)
8. Read the information in the right TV screen
9.  Open a new tab on the top of you page
10. Copy and paste this link into the URL bar: http://www.mbari.org/staff/oreilly/schoolPresentation/seafloor/ridge.html
11.     Read through the page and watch a volcanic eruption by clicking on the little picture in the bottom left corner of the page.
12.   Open another new tab and copy and paste this link into the URL bar:http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06fire/logs/april29/april29.html
13. Click on the second link with a little video camera next it ant the words  “Brimstone Pit erupts    with glowing red lava jetting out of the vent. (Quicktime, 2.5 Mb.)
14.   Go back to the main page one more time 
15.    Click on “Seamounts” under the “Select a Creature/Feature" side bar.
16.  Watch the video (it may not work)
17.  Read the information on the right TV screen

Welcome back to land sea explorer! Please take a moment to reflect on your time exploring the ocean floor. Enter there Wallwisher website. Once you are on the website please write one new thing you learned after your exploration today.
     ***If you didn´t get enough time undersea here are a few more links you can check out. Just click on the word and it will link you to the website.  

    SubmarineCanyons

     Under WaterVolcanoes

    Contential Shelf

Practice, Practice, Practice...Sentence Structure

Good afternoon fifth garders,

We are getting so close to Winter Vaction, only 8 more days of classes! Lets give our best effort until then.

Today we are going to spend our time practicing sentence structure. By the end of todays computer lab I bet you will all be experts in simple and compound sentences.

Activity 1
To start please click here. 
1. Read the instructions
2. Finish the activity
3. Check your answers at the bottom of the page where it says answers in blue.
4. Print your answers

Activity 2
To start please click here
1. Scroll to the bottom of the page to the 5th grade category
2. Stop at "Unit 1" and click on "the sentence"
3. Read the game rules and make sure you understand
4. Click play

Activity 3
To start click here
1. Scroll to the middle of the page where it says "Writing"
2. Click on the box that says "Types of Sentences"
3. **This game involves a type of sentence we have not learned yet. Use your process of illimations skills to help you! If you know the sentence is not a simple or a compound sentence then it must be a complex sentence (the sentence type we have not learned)
4. You may review what the rules of each sentence type are by clicking on the words on the left of the page in blue
5. Once you are ready read the instructions in side the picture
6. Click the word "Start" located on the tree
7. Click the circle with the dial to spin the dial.

Once you finish all three activities you may look through nationalgeographics for kids or play any of the games on this website.