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This week, we will read about a true American character (someone who is interesting), Bill Pickett, a famous rodeo cowboy.

Here is the introductory PowerPoint for our selection:

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Links about the subject of our selection:

• Bill Pickett on Yahooligans!
• Bill Pickett biography
• The National Cowboy Museum
• Black Cowboys

Links related to our study skills for the week:

• Take quizzes on suffixes
• Game based on “Who wants to be a millionaire?”

With just three weeks left of school, we still have a lot to do. This week we will be working hard on our unit projects on Going East.

Here is Homework for 5/28/2007.

Our links for the week:

• Do your book report online
• Language arts links for the week
• Mathematics links for the week

Comments from last week:

• How last week went
• Science comments
• SSR comments
• Comments on our unit theme

Here is a video from last week’s dodgeball game:

Download: Posted by mizmercer at TeacherTube.com.

And pictures of our picnic on the grass:

This week, we continue our work in Unit Five on Going West, and finish up lessons in our math text.

This week’s homework: Homework for 5/21/2007

Comments from last week to read:

• How the week went
• SSR comments
• Comments on our unit theme

Links for this week:

• Language Arts links
• Science links
• Social Studies links
• New SSR links
• Mathematics links

Here are places to leave a comment:

• Science comments
• Social Studies comments
• New SSR comments

or leave a comment on how the week is going by clicking on “Comments” below…

This week we will be reading a story about what happened after white settlers meet with Navaho Indians in The Coming of the Long Knives. Here is our introduction:

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CPW for Coming of the Long Knives
Links to our selection subject:

• Navajo on Yahooligans!
• Canyon de Chelly website
• Yahooligans! Encyclopedia entry on Navajo
• A site on the Long Walk

Links to our selection skills:

• Suffixes rules, and quizes
• Take a quiz on -tion, -sion ending
• Practice capitalization by doing this activity

And from last week, class discussion on 5/16/2007 on “The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung”
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Since we are still studying about the Spanish colonization of America, and last week’s question has not yet been answered, we’re keeping the same links:

• Age of Exploration on Yahooligans
• Conquistadors on Yahooligans

Question of the week: Were the conquistadors right to take over land from the Aztecs and Incas?

Here are some new links for SSR:

• lore.schindler – Brooklyn Avenue Elementary
• 07 AllStars
• Mrs. Wagner’s Class
• 6/7C Blog & Podcast
• ToonDoo – The Cartoon Strip Creator – Create, Publish, Share, Discuss!

This week’s links are few, but the second one for Villainy, Inc. has a very complicated math game I htink you will like.

• Triangle Classification
• Villainy, Inc. | Maryland Public Television

Testing is over, and we will be going back to homework, our Open Court text, and Social Studies, but we will continue to work on our online unit project, Going West. Here are our links for the week:

• Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Social Studies
• Science

Here is this weeks homework: homework.doc and last week’s comments:

• Comments on how the week went
• Comments on SSR
• Comments on our language arts unit, Going West

Please read these comments, and add a comment of your own.
This week you can leave comments here:

• Math question of the week
• Social Studies question of the week
• Science question of the week
• Comments on SSR, I’ve added some new links to the SSR page
• Comments on our language arts unit, Going West

or, leave a comment by clicking on the comments link below, about how your week is going…