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The Constitution: In Congress Assembled Created Equal? History of our country: America Dreams Colonial Williamsburg   America’s Library The World of Benjamin Franklin Human Rights and Civil Rights: Tolerance.org: Planet Tolerance Human Rights Education from Amnesty International Conflict Map from the Nobel Peace Prize Website RACE – For Kids  From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for [...]

The Constitutional Convention This will be our final week before Spring Break, but the fun will continue over break as we start our research projects.

This week in our class we will learn more about statistics Statistics (averages like mean, median, and mode) Integers (negative numbers) Area game (the space inside shapes) Percentages (parts of 100) [swf width="425" height="319"]https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=31275&doc=fantastic-drawings-on-the-sidewalk-15255[/swf] What is interesting about these pictures? Why do you think they look this way?

“Shh, We’re Writing the Constitution” PowerPoint:  [swf width="425" height="319"]https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=33084&doc=shh-were-writing-the-constitution-powerpoint-8216[/swf] “We the People, of the United States of America” PowerPoint: [swf width="425" height="319"]https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=31936&doc=we-the-people-powerpoint-23397[/swf] CPW for selection Here are Language Arts links: Contraction quiz Double negatives Here are links about the Revolutinary War: U.S. Constituion for Kids The Revolutionary War on Yahooligans! America’s Homepage The Intolerable Acts Fraction [...]

Tell Raven is a website for a fourth grade class in Alaska. You can read some of the writing there to see what other students are writing. What did you find interesting at the Tell Raven site? Comment below…

This week should be more normal. We will go to the library on Thursday, so bring back your books, and there will be no assemblies. We are still working towards our class party at the end of next week, so lets do our work, and have some fun learning things! Language Arts links Mathematics links Social Studies [...]

This week we will be reading about an African-American slave who was a spy for the Patriots in The Master Spy of Yorktown. Here is a PowerPoint for the selection: [swf width="425" height="319"]https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=31378&doc=master-spy-of-yorktown-powerpoint-8219[/swf] And CPW for Master Spy of Yorktown  Direct and indirect objects Multiple meaning words Passive voice And here are some links on [...]

This week we will be studying: Area Proportions Coolmath on angles in polygons Last week’s question was not answered correctly. Remember, I need both the area and the perimeter. Question:  What is the area of a triangle where the base is 10 cm, the sides are 6 and 7 cm, and the height is 8 [...]

  The Declaration of Independence  Here is the Homework for March 12, 2007. I will be in the Vyew room on Tuesday from 4-5 and Thursday from 7-8.Here is a message from Mike Temple in England about our website: I had a good look round your classroom and met all the students, just reading the [...]