Ms. Mercer's Class Website » 01/16/2007

For the Week of January 16, 2007

alicemercer — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:44:29 +0000

This picture is from Spanish Harlem, a Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York, like the one in our Open Court story this week, “The West Side”.

Our class Podcast for 1/16/2007 features Claudia and Andrea, and an interview with Elizabeth and Zhane

This week’s question is, name one thing you learned, or improved on last week…
Click on the word Comments below to answer.

alicemercer — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:43:52 +0000

This week we will learn about Prime and Composite numbers and we will learn more about fractions.

Here are this week’s math links:

alicemercer — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:43:04 +0000

This week we will read about a young boy coming to New York from Puerto Rico in “The West Side”

Here is our Word Knowledge and Spelling PowerPoint

Preposition quiz

Sensory words and language

Wikipedia entry on Spanish Harlem

alicemercer — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:38:49 +0000

This week we will study the people of Central America. Here are some links abou the Maya and Aztecs:

Yucatan Traditions

Here are notes and a PowerPoint to review for our upcoming chapter test:

alicemercer — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:38:25 +0000

Last week we studied about water systems and the water cycle. Here are some links:

Water on Kidzone
Play on this interactive map about water systems from the U.S. Geological Survey
Go on a Water ThinkQuest
Study wetlands