Ms. Mercer's Class Website » 02/13/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org Find out what's going on... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:37:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 For the Week of February 13-23, 2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/02/10/for-the-week-of-february-13-2007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/02/10/for-the-week-of-february-13-2007/#comments Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:10:46 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/02/10/for-the-week-of-february-13-2007/ Since we are doing unit testing, and I didn’t get a lot of responses to discussion questions because you are still working on your heritage wikis, and most of the links aren’t changing, I’m keeping up the same links this week:

  • Language Arts Links
  • Mathematics Links
  • Science Links
  • Social Studies Links

    • You can hear our radio play from ELD here 

    These are the times that I will be available for tutoring online the week of 02/13/2007:

    Thursday 2/22 from 4-5 p.m.  Go to the homework here to get more information.
     

    Here are places you can go this week on our site to write:

  • Mathematics question for the week

    • I’ve updated the mathematics question, since we answered that question.

  • Science question for the week
  • Social Studies question for the week
  • Heritage
    • ]]>     http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/02/10/for-the-week-of-february-13-2007/feed/ 0     Language Arts Links for the week of 2/13/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/02/10/language-arts-links-for-the-week-of-2132007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/02/10/language-arts-links-for-the-week-of-2132007/#comments Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:06:40 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/02/10/language-arts-links-for-the-week-of-2132007/ This week we will read about an African American family in “Parmele”

  • African American Odyssey on the Library of Congress
  • Main Idea Quiz
  • Take a quiz on Main Idea

    • Here is our Word Knowledge and Spelling PowerPoint for this story:

    Parmele PowerPoint 

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  • Definitions of quadrilaterals
  • Quadrilaterals
  • Quiz on volume
  • Quiz yourself on measurement

    • Question of the week: If you plot the coordinates (2, 2), (-2, 2), (-4, 0), (0, 0) what shape do you get? And, the answer was a parallelogram.  Here is our new question:

    (8 x 37) = (8 x 30) + (8 x 7)

    Is this true? Answer in the comment box below…

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  • Photosynthesis
  • It’s a jungle out there!

    • Question of the week: Why are plants important to humans? Answer in the comment box below…

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    photo of a replica of the Santa Maria

  • How Columbus changed the Americas
  • Mariners’ Museum on the Age of Exploration
  • ThinkQuest on the Age of Exploration

    • This week’s question, If you could travel to a new place or planet where no one had gone before, would you do it? Leave your answer below…

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