Ms. Mercer’s Class Website

Here are some new links for SSR:

• lore.schindler – Brooklyn Avenue Elementary
• 07 AllStars
• Mrs. Wagner’s Class
• 6/7C Blog & Podcast
• ToonDoo – The Cartoon Strip Creator – Create, Publish, Share, Discuss!

This week’s links are few, but the second one for Villainy, Inc. has a very complicated math game I htink you will like.

• Triangle Classification
• Villainy, Inc. | Maryland Public Television

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:

• Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Social Studies
• Science

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

• Comments on how the week went
• Comments on SSR
• Comments on our language arts unit, Going West

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

• Math question of the week
• Social Studies question of the week
• Science question of the week
• Comments on SSR, I’ve added some new links to the SSR page
• Comments on our language arts unit, Going West

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

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

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:

• Chinese immigrants from a PBS show.
• Chinese workers on the Central Pacific Railroad
• Chinese immigrants on the Library of Congress site

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

• Multiple meaning words
• Play fish tank game to learn more about affixes
• Punctuation lesson and quiz
  

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?

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:

• Last week’s math question
• Comments on last week
• Comments on SSR
• Our unit theme, going west comments

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

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 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:

• Math links
• Language Arts links

Here are comments for you to review from last week:

• About last week
• On circulation
• Comments on SSR

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…