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Friday, March 21, 2014

United by rail..... Divided by greed..Week 30....

This week we've covered the transcontinental railroad. MFW does a nice glossy version of the tale which we expanded on to show a bit of the uglier side. I don't really like just showing the up side of history, because very rarely was history a win-win proposition. We read a lot of books but also found some great resources online to include Math problems involving the railroad and great videos on You-tube. Here were our favorites:
  Video from Education portal on transcontinental railroad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl0lxIMMb9E

 Free reading comprehension worksheet on the Transcontinental Railroad. Listed as 4th grade:
http://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/transcontinental-railroad/

Math worksheet with interesting facts on the transcontinental railroad. My girls could do about 1/2 of problems. Definitely written for 5+grade and up....
http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wy/nhtic/education/lessons/transcontinentalrailroad.Par.61847.File.dat/mathskills.pdf

Science- We have Skipped over magnets because the girls did an extensive study in K. We have been expanding or study of Energy and forces. We are using a lapbook I found to do some hands on motion labs and to wind up our study prior to Spring Break!

Math- We are moving forward after a long period of review of adding and subtracting with regrouping, and reintroduced multiplication. We are mainly focusing on concept and will being with memorizing facts after spring break.

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