Archive for January, 2008

Kids Voting USA is Tuesday, Febuary 5

We’ll be casting preference ballots on Super Tuesday. Check out the website to investigate your favorite candidates.

Kids Voting Arizona

Assignments: Thursday

Math:
Multiplying Fractions worksheet
Multiplying and dividing fractions

Writing:
Word Choice
PB 34
Spelling Test tomorrow

Reading:
PB 31

Science:
How can you track severe storms?

Social Studies:
Daily Geography

Cartesian Art

Plot these points on a coordinate grid, then connect the dots to see a picture:

A (-4, -2)
B (-4, 1)
C(-4, 2)
D (-2.5, 3)
E (4.5, -2)
F (3, -1)
G (4.5, -1.5)
H (-4, 2)
I (-4, 1)
J (-1, -0.5)
K (-4, -2)
L (-4, -3)
M (4.5, -0.5)

Create your own picture on a coordinate grid and list the coordinates (in order). Post the list in the comments to give someone else a coordinate are challenge. Can you plot a picture from a classmate?

Famous Mathmetician: Rene Descartes

Often called “Father of Modern Mathematics”, Descartes gave us the Cartesian coordinate system of geometry.


To practice using his system, try Graph Mole.

Assignments: Wednesday

Math:
Cartesian Graph Art

Writing:
PB 37
Word Choice

Reading:
PB 24
PB 26
PB 27
PB 30
PB 32

Social Studies:
Daily Geography

Assignments: Tuesday

Math:
Unit 5 Test corrections

Writing:
Word Choice
PB 33

Reading:
PB 1
PB 2
PB 25
PB 28
PB 29

Science:
How do you track severe storms?

Social Studies:
Daily Geography

Assignments: Monday

Math:
Unit 5 Test

Reading:
PB 23

Science:
Our Restless Atmosphere

Social Studies:
Daily Geography
The Great Wall

Assignments: Friday

Math:
Unit 5 Test on Monday

Writing:
Publish Explanation
Spelling Test
PB 14

Reading:
Weekly Skills Test

Social Studies:
Daily Geography

Jo Fool and Jo Cool

Safe internet surfing is key to having fun online. Josie and Joseph Cool show you how to be safe with their tour of example sites. Take the tour, answer the questions in the comments about one of the sites, then complete the quiz.

Cybertour

What kind of website is this?

What decision does Jo have to make?

 What should Jo be looking out for?

Does Jo make the right decision?

Why or Why not?

Cyberquiz

Assignments: Thursday

Math:
Checking Progress Unit 5

Writing:
Revise and Proofread an explanation
PB 17

Reading:
PB 11

Social Studies:
Daily Geography

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