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)

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What is interesting about these pictures? Why do you think they look this way?

“Shh, We’re Writing the Constitution” PowerPoint: 
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“We the People, of the United States of America” PowerPoint:
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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 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.
• Declaration of Indepedence
• Thomas Jefferson interview
• Timeline: The Age of Revolution

Here is the discussion of last week’s selection, “The Master Spy of Yorktown”:

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…