Wednesday, 02/18/09

Math
Today, we took a piece of paper, and folded it into four squares. We shaded the top and bottom left corner boxes one way and the bottom half of the piece of paper in the opposite way. Then the fraction of the paper that has the cross shading is ¼. Easy, huh? Not quite. Some people didn't like the activity at all. We also completed a page where we had to draw the fraction shading in the boxes provided. When drawing it, it was a little complicated. Multiplying the fractions instead of using the drawing method was much, much easier to me and most of the rest of the class.

Language Arts
Today, we worked on our centers. There were the Homophones center, the Point of View center, the Literature Game center, and the Side Dishes center. In the homophones center, we had to complete two pages in our homophones book. There was one page where they have a book title but use the wrong word. You have to find the right homophone for the book title and rewrite it correctly. In the point of view center, we read a short poem about the point of view of a baseball at a baseball game. We decided which type of point of view it is and who is the narrator. It was easy. In the Literature Game, when it was your turn, you flipped up a red card and a green card. The red card was the topic. For example Setting, point of view, resolutions, etc. The green card was the challenge card. For example, you may get discussion, questioning, opinion, prediction, etc. In the Side Dishes center, we worked on side dishes. We only needed two of them. I did Vocabulary Scramble and Interview With a Character. There was also Mini Thesaurus but I didn't want to do it. In Vocab Scramble, you needed to take a word and scramble the letters into boxes. Then you needed to give a clue. In Interview With a Character, you asked any character two questions and next to them, you write how they might answer. It was pretty easy.

Social Studies
Today, we filled out the chart for Jamestown and Roanoke. Some questions on there were what country arrived in what year, what kinds of people lived in the colony, what was the climate like, and much more. After everyone got around the end of the chart, we reviewed it as a class. Jamestown had way more good stuff than Roanoke. Well, that's my opinion. After that, we answered the writing prompt based on the answers we got. It asked us to choose between Jamestown and Roanoke. I chose Jamestown. It just had better conditions than Roanoke to me.