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Archive for January, 2007

For the Week of January 29, 2007

Posted by alicemercer on 26th January 2007

crab.jpg This week in our class we will be learning more about heritage when we read a story about a girl and her grandmother in Seattle’s Chinatown.

This week’s Podcast will not be available until Monday evening, but you can listen to our discussion  on “In Two Worlds”

Here is homework for 1/29/2007

and, here are our links for the week:

Discussion and other places to answer questions, and send me a note this week:

Please send a comment below to share your favorite site from this week.

Posted in 01/29/2007, Main Weekly Post | 3 Comments »

Language Arts Links for 1/29/2007

Posted by alicemercer on 26th January 2007

We will be reading “Love as Strong as Ginger” this week. The first three links are about the sound of language.

  • Alliteration quiz
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Assonance
  • Transition words quiz
  • Inference Quiz
  • Seattle Chinatown (the International District) on Wikipedia
  • Posted in 01/29/2007, Language Arts | No Comments »

    Mathematics Links for 1/29/2007

    Posted by alicemercer on 26th January 2007

  • Coordinate Geometry
  • Decimals to Fractions
  • Division of Mixed Numbers
  • Lines Quiz
  • Prime Numbers and Factors
  • Here is a question for the week, what is the prime factorization of 91? What factors multiply up to 91? Send a comment with your answer…

    Posted in 01/29/2007, Mathematics | 3 Comments »

    Social Studies Links for 1/29/2007

    Posted by alicemercer on 26th January 2007

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    This week we begin a unit on the Age of Exploration! See the picture of a Viking ship above.

    Posted in 01/29/2007, Social Studies | No Comments »

    Science Links for 1/29/2007

    Posted by alicemercer on 26th January 2007

    DNA.jpg This is a diagram of DNA, the basic unit of living things.  We will begin a unit on Life Science and start about by learning about living things:

    Send a comment below sharing what you learned about weather, and rocks, or wondering about living systems.

    Posted in 01/29/2007, Science | No Comments »

    For the Week of January 22, 2007

    Posted by alicemercer on 19th January 2007

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    Hello, and welcome to our Website! We will be finishing up our unit in Social Studies on Early Americas, and in Science on Earth Science. We will also be starting our Heritage Reports this week.

    Here is the Homework for 1/22/2007 

    Here is our Podcast for the week

    Go to our Science page to review for our quiz.

    Go to our Social Studies page to review for our chapter quiz.

    Language Arts links for the week

    Mathematics links for the week

    Your writing assignment this week is to answer at least one question on your project wiki. Get started on your Heritage project here…

    Here is a Podcast of our class discussion on last week’s reading selection

    The question this week is, why is culture important? 

    Posted in 01/22/2007, Main Weekly Post | 3 Comments »

    Mathematics Links for the Week of 1/22/2007

    Posted by alicemercer on 19th January 2007

    This week, we will be reviewing decimal operations.

    Posted in 01/22/2007, Mathematics | No Comments »

    Language Art Links for the Week of 1/22/2007

    Posted by alicemercer on 19th January 2007

    This week we will be reading about a Yup’ik Eskimo family  in Alaska and how they preserve their culture.

    Here is our Word Knowledge PowerPoint for the week

    CPW for In Two Worlds 

    Here are our links for the week:

  • Connecting/Transition words quiz
  • Flip-a-chip game
  • Hangman game
  • Take a quiz on adverbs
  • Quiz on Main Idea
  • Information on the Yup’ik
  • Yup’ik Masks
  • Posted in 01/22/2007, Language Arts | No Comments »

    For the Week of January 16, 2007

    Posted by alicemercer on 12th January 2007

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    This picture is from Spanish Harlem, a Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York, like the one in our Open Court story this week, “The West Side”.

    Our class Podcast for 1/16/2007 features Claudia and Andrea, and an interview with Elizabeth and Zhane

    This week’s question is, name one thing you learned, or improved on last week…
    Click on the word Comments below to answer.

    Posted in 01/16/2007, Main Weekly Post | No Comments »

    Mathematics Link – 01/16/2007

    Posted by alicemercer on 12th January 2007

    This week we will learn about Prime and Composite numbers and we will learn more about fractions. 

    Here are this week’s math links:

    Posted in 01/16/2007, Mathematics | No Comments »