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Archive for the '05/14/2007' Category

For the week of May 14, 2007

Posted by alicemercer on 12th May 2007

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:

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

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

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

Posted in 05/14/2007, Main Weekly Post | 8 Comments »

Mathematics Links for the week of 5/14/2007

Posted by alicemercer on 12th May 2007

Ratio and Proportion

Cynthia Lanius’ Lessons: All About Ratios

Cyberchase . Games . Point Out the View | PBS Kids

Math Forum: Types of Symmetry in the Plane


Last week’s question was not answered, so here it it again:
This week’s question is, what is greater, half of 250, or 25% of 500?

Posted in 05/14/2007, Mathematics | 1 Comment »

Language Arts Links for 5/14/2007

Posted by alicemercer on 11th May 2007

This week, we read a story about a young man who immigrants to California from China during the Gold Rush.

Here is the slideshow for our selection:
[slideshare id=49479&doc=journal-of-wong-mingchung-introduction-10790&w=425]

CPW for Wong Ming-Chung

and Class Discussion on 5/16/2007 on “The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung”
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Here are links related to the subject of our story:

And here are the links related to the skills we will study this week:

Posted in 05/14/2007, Language Arts, Unit 5 | 1 Comment »

Social Studies Links for 5/14/2007

Posted by alicemercer on 11th May 2007

Francisco Pizarro We will begin studying about the colonization of America by Europe:

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

Posted in 05/14/2007, Social Studies, Unit 2: Age of Exploration | No Comments »

Science Links for the week of 5/14/2007

Posted by alicemercer on 11th May 2007

skeleton This week we studied about bones and muscles.
Here are some links to help us:Your Multitalented MusclesThe Interactive Skeleton

Question of the week:  How do bones and muscles work together?

Posted in 05/14/2007, Life Science, Science | No Comments »