This week we start state testing. I know we will all do our best. There will be no homework for the next two weeks.  Here are our links for the week:

Here is our Podcast for the week:

Here are our links for the week:

• Math links
• Language Arts links

Here are comments for you to review from last week:

• About last week
• On circulation
• Comments on SSR

And you can comment here this week:

• The math question last week was not answered, so it’s back
• Add comments on SSR selections you have read, paper and print stories you have read, or add a story of your own
• Our unit theme, going west, or below this line, tell how your week is going…

This week we will be reading a story from “Old Yeller” which tells about a boy and his pet dog.

CPW for Old Yeller and the Bear

This week’s PowerPoint introducing the story:

[slideshare id=43287&doc=powerpoint-to-introduce-old-yeller-1741&w=425]

and here is what we came up with from last week’s test:

[slideshare id=43286&doc=test-answers-from-buffalo-hunt-20377&w=425]

Links related to our unit theme:

• Westward Expansion on Yahooligans!
• Timeline of western expansion
• A list of links

Links related to the skills we are studying this week:

• Simile on Mrs. Dowling’s website
• Play this game to make words with -ed, and -ing ending.
• Comma quiz

We will be studying probability, and operations with fractions and decimals. 

Here are our Math Links for the week:

• Probability game
• Fractions and decimals

This week in our classrom…

Unit Project

On our unit project, we will be starting to work in Wikispaces. Follow this link to our class wiki, then create a page for your group using the Unit Five Project template. You should include your table group number in the file name. Once the page is created, you should go to here to find the page you made. You will be answering some basic questions about your project this week. Next week, you will begin planning your transportation needs.

Here is CPW for Buffalo Hunt

PowerPoint of Word Knowledge: 

Class Discussion on 4/19/2007 on “Sacagawea”

Here are our content links for the week:

• History of bison (buffalo)
• An account of a buffalo hunt.
• Buffalo on Yahooligans!
• Plains Indians on Yahooligans!
• Information on buffalo hunting from a Canadian Museum

Here are links about the skills we will study this week:

• Main Idea Quiz
• Negative prefixes add prefixes to change the meaning of these words
• Spelling wizard game Bring your spelling words to play this game.
• Comma quiz

Here are our links for the week:

• Coordinate Geometry
• Order of Operations game on FunBrain
• Build Tessellations (like Busy Beetles)

 
Heart and lungs from older edition of Gray’s Anatomy from Wikipedia

We continue studying the human body:

Here are some recordings from our Open House…

and some pictures…