April+10,+2011

//**Greetings Kids and Parents of Room 206. Happy Springtime!**// ---> **I LOVE MY STUDENTS...** [[image:smallheartii1.gif width="30" height="26"]]

 * I am learning how to create a "wiki page" which is very similar to a web page. Cool huh? Now I can post the homework so none of my students will say, "Gee, Ms. Mowbray, I didn't know we had homework!!" (hmmmmm...)**

**__April 11-15, 2011__**

 * //WHAT'S GOIN' ON in 206?//**


 * Math: __GRAPHING__**


 * **quick review of line plots**
 * **quick review of bar graphs**
 * **line graphs**
 * **stem-and-leaf plots**
 * **review and TEST**


 * Social Studies: __CIVIL WAR -- AN END TO SLAVERY__ (pgs. 492-515)**

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//**__*SOCIAL STUDIES/WRITING PROJECT__:** //**(parents, please read your child's paper and help edit)** =====

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//**(Imagine) THE YEAR IS 1861. YOU ARE A 16-YEAR-OLD AND YOU'VE RUN AWAY FROM HOME TO JOIN THE ARMY AS A __UNION SOLDIER__.** // =====
 * =====**Write a letter to your parents to tell them why you've decided to join the army. ** =====

__ //**Details:** // __
 * ===== //**Project must be one page, single-spaced (type it if possible)** // =====
 * ===== //**Include the date; Dear Mother and Father; Your Loving Son (girls weren't allowed to join the army back then, pretend you're a boy).** // =====


 * ELA: __LESSON 22__**
 * **Vocab/spelling: //somberly, stammers, monopolize, deflated, enraptured, enterprising, cumbersome// **
 * **Comprehension: author's purpose and perspective; summarize**
 * **Reading selection: "THE POWER OF WOW!"**
 * **Writing: persuasive paragraph (tied into Social Studies project)**
 * **Lesson test and spelling test: FRIDAY**