Sunday, January 30, 2011

Week of Jan. 31-Feb. 4

 

Hello Room 613!! Happy first week of February!!  I hope everyone has completed their homework and now you are having a nice night at home! Spelling test and reading test on Grandmother Spider will be on Tuesday. We will begin a new list of spelling words on Wednesday!



Mystery Question: What is the job of the cotton gin?




Look at how the cotton gin worked.
http://www.eliwhitney.org/new/sites/default/files/minisites/cotton/patent.html


A fun website for you:
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/bugs/index.html

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Week of Jan. 24

Hello everyone! Remember Award's Day is Friday at 9:30. We will take MAP math on Tuesday. I am proud of all you and how hard you have worked on the MAP reading and language tests.

Mystery Question: What invention was helpful to the cotton industry?

Mystery Question: What is 47 divided by 3?


Here is the youtube we watched on square numbers:

Monday, January 17, 2011

Week of Jan. 19-21

This is going to be a very short week. We will have our spelling test and reading test next Tuesday.

We will have MAP reading test tomorrow. (Thursday) I know you will do your personal best!


Mystery Question: What does it mean to have "taxation without representation" ?

Fun game to plany on types of angles:
http://henryanker.com/Math/Geometry/Types_of_Angles_Set_01.swf

Fun game with shapes:
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/14/m3_14_00_x.swf

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Week of Jan. 10-14

Hello Room 613! Remember we get out 2 1/2 hours early on Friday. We will have a spelling test and a social studies test on Friday. We will not have a test on a reading story this week.

Mystery Question: What is a triangle called that has all its sides different lengths and different degrees?

Mystery Question: Who was nicknamed the "Gamecock" during the Revolutionary War?

Schoolhouse Rock: The Preamble