Here’s a site that goes through the details in a simple way of solving the circumference of a circle @ Math.com
Learn angle amounts with the game Angler @ the website MyMaths.co.uk
Learn and practice using the formula to find the area of a circle @ MathGoodies.com
The History of Pi @ 3.14ever.
Interesting lesson plans in teaching what Pi is @ MiddleWeb.com
How to memorize the numbers in Pi @ Jeff’s Pi
March 14 is Pi Day!
A master site to find Pi websites @ ethemes

In sentences that are questions, the verb phrase is often separated by another word. Find the verb phrases in these sentences. Be sure to watch for another word separating the helping verb from the main verb.
Have you been driving long?
Where was the car parked?
Can I be of assistance?
Answer:

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In my son’s schoolbook we learned today that the Rocky Mountains are the “backbone” of America. It is also where the Continental Divide is:
Check out this view from above of the Rocky Mountains.

Some Educational info:

When the sunshine of God’s love
meets the showers of our sorrow,
the rainbow of promise appears.
Taken from Our Daily Bread website

I was intending to thoroughly enjoy the colorful unfolding of the sunrise. But now I look and there is a drastic change. Today will be rainy. The overhead sky is filled with darkness. That’s okay. We need rain. It’ll be interesting to watch the rain arrive.

It’s a cloudy sky that is on the verge of becoming bright with light. The clouds are smooth in the eastern sky and there are many of them. Some of them look like mountains in the distance. They have an underlying white lining accented a bit with a light peach color.

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Love this cheerful song. It’s Doris Day’s trademark song. I love how she danced around the room and sang it with her son in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much with Jimmy Stewart in 1956. Her dress was pretty and flowing. We watched the famous classic last Sunday night.

Shel Silverstein wrote a poem that many American kids can relate to. And that is, the dreaded and dirty job of taking out the trash. I like the talent Silverstein has for describing garbage.
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out*
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out!
She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans,
Candy the yams and spice the hams,
And though her daddy would scream and shout,
She simply would not take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceilings:

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The use of helping verbs causes certain changes in verb phrases that we need to be able to recognize. One change is the use of contractions. List the contractions in the following sentences.
I’ve done it again.
You aren’t going with us.
She’s staying to tend the kids.

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I found 3 good quotes applicable to our family life from an old teacher’s edition math book from 1997*:
1. Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day wwil take care of itself.
~Elbert Hubbard
I need to do this . . . tomorrow. I really hope it works.

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