Ms. Mercer's Class Website » 03/19/2007

For the Week of March 19, 2007

alicemercer — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:56:19 +0000

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 links

I’m going to cancel homework club until Spring Break. Most of you are getting help at the new afterschool program, and haven’t needed to come to the online club. I will be doing some special sessions during break time.

Question of the week: What projects or research questions would you like to look into after break about our unit theme, Making a New Nation, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, or Human and Civil Rights?

Language Arts Links for 3/19/2007

alicemercer — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:41:29 +0000

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:

And CPW for Master Spy of Yorktown

And here are some links on the Revolutionary War:

Question for the week: What inalienable rights should children have?

Mathematics Links for 3/19/3007

alicemercer — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:39:50 +0000

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 cm? What is the perimeter of that triangle?