Monday, 02/09/09

Math
Today, we worked on negative and positive numbers. If you had a number line and zero was in the middle, the numbers to the left would be negative numbers and the ones to the right would be positive. Negative is less than zero and positive is more than zero. The problems we used to practice this were comparing both negative and positive numbers. Take this example.

-14<14=negative fourteen is less than fourteen

We did a couple examples of this in our math journal. It was easy and surprisingly fun. The more I did it, the faster I became at it and more fun the lesson became!

Language Arts
Today, we worked on our showcase and collection portfolios. In our collection portfolios, we gathered all our 2nd marking period stuff and clipped them together, but we took out the special ones we wanted to showcase in our showcase portfolio, we put in all our showcase work, put in our logs, and filled out goal met and goal not yet met sheets. We also made our reading graph for the logs where for every book you finish reading, you color in one square with the matching genre.

Science
Today, we filled in the rest of the inquiry questions for the unit on fossils. There were questions on how fossils were made, how old the oldest layer is and many more. It was pretty easy. Like what we did with the chart, the teacher assigned each table group one or two questions to answer. Our question was the process of an ammonite forming into a fossil. I was the illustrator and introduction giver.