A print from the Boston Tea Party 

Here is Homework for 3/5/2007.  I will be in the Vyew Homework ClubTuesday from 7-8 and Wednesday from 4-5 p.m

Our links for the week are:

• Language Arts links
• Mathematics links
• Science links
• Social Studies links
• Students with other heritages
• Heritage report for white students
• Heritage report for African American students
• Heritage report for Hmong students

This week we will be reading two selections, but don’t worry they are short, and the class did a marvelous job last week with a very long and difficult selection. The stories will cover events that were some of the first physical confrontations in the Revolutionary War.

Here are:

• CPW for the The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• Word Knowledge PowerPoint: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• CPW for The Night the Revolution Began
• Word Knowledge Power Point: The Night the Revolution Began

Here are links about the subjects we will read about this week:

Declaration of Indepedence
Colonial Lexington
The Intolerable Acts

Here are links related to the skills we will be studying this week:

Figurative language
Complex/Compound sentences
Synonyms/Antonyms
Parts of Speech: Use for subjects and verbs

Question for the week, what services do you get for the taxes you and your family pay?

Here are this week’s links:

• Play safe cracker to work with negative numbers
• Fraction Rythyms from Phil Tulga’s site: Go to the bottom, select the songs button, and pick out some of the drum signals from the Revolutionary War.

This week’s question, what is 5 + 4 – 3 x 2 ÷ 1?

We will start our study of the systems of the human body this week.

• A cool clickable map of the human body
• A tour of the human body from fourth graders

We continue our unit on the Age of Exploration

• A Think Quest on the Age of Exploration
• How sailors navigated during the Age of Exploration

Question of the week (once again) would you leave your family and friends to explore somwhere new and different? Why or why not?