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  • Sky View Elementary School
    5805 Dunn Road Mableton, GA 30126 770.819.2584

Upcoming events

Upcoming Events:

March 31 - April 4 Teacher Challenge (Relay for Life Event)

April 7-11 Spring Break

April 17 Sky View Variety Show (Relay for Life Event)

April 22-29 CRCT Testing

April 30 - Field trip to Civil War Museum

U.S. History

http://www.cobbk12.org/~skyview/computerlablinks/Fourthgradelinks.htm

Science

http://skyview.typepad.com/jconner/

Westward Expansion

Please remember that your April project is due on the 18th. 

Here are your options again:

The Nations Grows

Pick one of the following projects to do for your book report.

1)     Write 10 entries in a dairy pretending you are Lewis and Clark.

2)     Play the game “

Oregon Trail

” by MECC on the computer. Then write a one-page paper about your trip.

3)     Rewrite “The Star-Spangled Banner” in modern words.

4)     Make a map showing the western trails.

5)     Create a comic strip about the Gold Rush.

6)     Demonstrate the process cotton goes through from the plant to cloth.

7)     Write a 100-word essay answering one of the following questions or following the directions:

a.      Many people who went to

California

to get rich on gold were failures until they found a product or service to sell to miners. What would you have sold? How? Why?

b.     Davy Crockett was famous for his tall tales about his own adventures. Write a tall tale about one of your adventures.

c.     Pretend you went west on the

Oregon Trail

. Why did you go? Were the benefits worth the sacrifices you had to make?

Relieve Test Anxiety

http://www.cobbk12.org/sites/literacy/math/math2.htm

Great Resources

http://www.cobbk12.org/sites/literacy/math/math2.htm

Welcome!

I would like to welcome everyone to my new blog.  Please feel free to share any suggestions, ideas, or great resources with me.  Let me know what you think.

Samantha Wasdin

WELCOME!

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