First Day Of School

Welcome back to school!
I am excited and honored to be your teacher this year. While school is a lot of hard work, I know we will have a successful year together working on the skills that you will use regularly as adults. This blog will be available for you to learn things and for you to get the help you need to complete your assignments. You might even have a little fun, in the process. If you are nervous about asking questions in class, this is a way you can ask questions, as well. Below you will see some links that you might have fun with or use to further your own learning. Remember, you are the key to your own success. NO ONE, from Albert Einstein to Adrian Peterson has been able to accomplish their goals without hard work. This is also true for you.


Web Links:
www.freerice.com
Free Rice is an online game that lets you practice your vocabulary or math facts while also helping out hungry children around the world. Show me you have earned 1,000 grains of rice for 5 bonus points.

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
World Atlas is a website with maps, flags, and information about every country in the world today. This is a great resource for social studies projects.

http://www.kutasoftware.com/free.html
Kuta Algebra 1 has lots of algebra one worksheets that you can print to practice Algebra concepts that you are having a hard time with. Show me a completed Kuta worksheet (that was not assigned in class) for 10 bonus points.

http://www.wordle.net/
Use Wordle to create beautiful artwork out of your papers or poetry. Wordle can add something exciting and really cool to your reports or projects.

http://www.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that includes information about thousands of topics. It is an excellent resource for your reports and projects. BE CAREFUL to avoid copying!

http://www.rhymezone.com/
Rhymezone is a rhyming dictionary that can help you with your poems.

http://www.quoteland.com/
Quoteland is a website with a variety of quotations by different authors and about different topics. Consider adding a quotation to liven up a paper or report--make sure you site the author!

http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/
This website has free printable graph paper in different colors and sizes--in case you have math or science homework to complete at home!

I will add more websites to the site as we find and need them. For now, consider how you are starting the school year. Remember that this is an important year in your education and be sure to take advantage of it.
Happy learning!
Ms. Jenson