Ms. Mercer's Class Website » Main Weekly Post 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 June 4, 2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/06/03/for-the-week-of-june-4-2007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/06/03/for-the-week-of-june-4-2007/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:54:27 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/06/03/for-the-week-of-june-4-2007/ With just three two weeks left of school, we still have work to do. This week we will be working on our unit projects on Going East, and finishing up work in our Open Court textbook.

Here is Homework for the week of 6/4/2007.

Our links for the week:

Comments from last week:

How did your week go?

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/06/03/for-the-week-of-june-4-2007/feed/ 5 Mathematics for the week of 5/29/2007 & 6/4/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/06/02/mathematics-for-the-week-of-5292007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/06/02/mathematics-for-the-week-of-5292007/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:54:14 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/27/mathematics-for-the-week-of-5292007/ Here is a review of our favorite sites:

Villainy, Inc. | Maryland Public Television

Tessellations, like Busy Beetles puzzle

more tessellations

and, Fun Brain

This week’s question, make up a question for Math…
 What’s bigger, one quarter of 200 or half of 100?

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/06/02/mathematics-for-the-week-of-5292007/feed/ 5 For the week of May 21, 2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/21/for-the-week-of-may-21-2007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/21/for-the-week-of-may-21-2007/#comments Mon, 21 May 2007 15:26:05 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/21/for-the-week-of-may-21-2007/ This week, we continue our work in Unit Five on Going West, and finish up lessons in our math text.

This week’s homework: Homework for 5/21/2007

Comments from last week to read:

Links for this week:

Here are places to leave a comment:

or leave a comment on how the week is going by clicking on “Comments” below…

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/21/for-the-week-of-may-21-2007/feed/ 9 Mathematics Links for the week of 5/21/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/19/mathematics-links-for-the-week-of-5212007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/19/mathematics-links-for-the-week-of-5212007/#comments Sat, 19 May 2007 21:09:36 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/19/mathematics-links-for-the-week-of-5212007/ This week’s links are few, but the second one for Villainy, Inc. has a very complicated math game I htink you will like.

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/19/mathematics-links-for-the-week-of-5212007/feed/ 0 For the week of May 14, 2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/12/for-the-week-of-may-14-2007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/12/for-the-week-of-may-14-2007/#comments Sat, 12 May 2007 23:15:43 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/12/for-the-week-of-may-14-2007/ 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…

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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?

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/12/mathematics-links-for-the-week-of-5142007/feed/ 1 For the Week of May 7, 2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/for-the-week-of-may-7-2007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/for-the-week-of-may-7-2007/#comments Mon, 07 May 2007 13:25:13 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/for-the-week-of-may-7-2007/ We will continue reading Old Yeller and the Bear this week, and because of state testing, there will be no homework this week. Homework will return next Monday evening.

We will be doing a lot of work on our unit projects, and our Mother’s Day project (I won’t put it up here in case your parents are looking).

We are returning to our Math text, Saxon Math 76 this week, and there will be a Math test at the end of the week.

Here are links to pictures.

Please review our comments from last week. I would like you to either respond to my comments, or to the comments of a peer:

You will also need to leave a comment for this week. Everyone is required to leave a post on how their week went on Thursday or Friday by clicking on Comments below, you can then leave another comment in one of the following places:

  • This week’s math question
  • Add comments on SSR selections you have read, paper and print stories you have read, or add a story of your own
  • Our unit theme, going west
  • New stuff on our ELD page
Answer this question on Thursday or Friday: How did your week go? What went right, what went wrong?

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/for-the-week-of-may-7-2007/feed/ 16 Mathematics Links for 5/7/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/mathematics-links-for-572007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/mathematics-links-for-572007/#comments Mon, 07 May 2007 13:14:45 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/mathematics-links-for-572007/ Here are our links for Mathematics this week:

  • The GoldenRatio a proportion/ratio dating back to Ancient Greece
  • Pi illustration
  • Tessellations, which are related to transformations which we will be studying

I got some great answers to last week’s math question, but the students did not give a clear explanation of why you came up with your answer. Here is last week’s question, and the answers. See if you can explain it better there.

This weeks question is, what is greater, half of 250, or 25% of 500?

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/mathematics-links-for-572007/feed/ 0 For the Week of 4/30/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/27/for-the-week-of-4302007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/27/for-the-week-of-4302007/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:12:03 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/27/for-the-week-of-4302007/ This week we start state testing. I know we will all do our best. There will be no homework for the next two weeks.  Here are our links for the week:

Here is our Podcast for the week:

Here are our links for the week:

Here are comments for you to review from last week:

And you can comment here this week:

  • The math question last week was not answered, so it’s back
  • Add comments on SSR selections you have read, paper and print stories you have read, or add a story of your own
  • Our unit theme, going west, or below this line, tell how your week is going…
Reflect on how the week has gone for you. What went well? What could you have improved on?

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/27/for-the-week-of-4302007/feed/ 24 Math Link for the week of 4/30/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/27/math-link-for-the-week-of-4302007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/27/math-link-for-the-week-of-4302007/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:34:36 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/27/math-link-for-the-week-of-4302007/ We will be studying probability, and operations with fractions and decimals. 

Here are our Math Links for the week:

Question for the week: Last week’s question did not get answered, so here it is again,
Less than, greater than, or equal? Why?  56 x 24  __  54 x 26

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/27/math-link-for-the-week-of-4302007/feed/ 3 For the week of 4/23/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/22/for-the-week-of-4232007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/22/for-the-week-of-4232007/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:27:04 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/22/for-the-week-of-4232007/ This week in our classrom…

Unit Project

On our unit project, we will be starting to work in Wikispaces. Follow this link to our class wiki, then create a page for your group using the Unit Five Project template. You should include your table group number in the file name. Once the page is created, you should go to here to find the page you made. You will be answering some basic questions about your project this week. Next week, you will begin planning your transportation needs.

On Friday, please send me a note reflecting on what has happened for you and if you chose, the class, this week.

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/22/for-the-week-of-4232007/feed/ 9 Mathematics Links for 4/23/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/22/mathematics-links-for-4232007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/22/mathematics-links-for-4232007/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:34:30 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/22/mathematics-links-for-4232007/ Here are our links for the week:

Question for the week: Less than, greater than, or equal? Why?  56 x 24  __  54 x 26

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/22/mathematics-links-for-4232007/feed/ 1 This week in our classroom: April 16, 2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/16/this-week-in-our-classroom-april-16-2007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/16/this-week-in-our-classroom-april-16-2007/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:42:43 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/14/this-week-in-our-classroom-april-16-2007/ Wednesday is Open House! Please bring your parents so you can share our classroom with them.

We will be starting a new unit in Language Arts on the westward movement in the history of our country. You’ll notice a new page on top called Going East? This is for our unit project which will be to plan a trip east (since we’re already west).

Here is homework for the week of 4/16/2007

The rest of our studies will be to prepare for state testing, which starts next week.

Here are photos from our class dodgeball game: