Friday, 01/09/2009

Math
Today, we worked on circle graphs. If a sector is 25%, then the fraction is 25/100 or ¼. We worked on similar problems that go like this:

A pizza was cut into 8 pieces. Bobby ate 25% of the pizza. What fraction of the pizza did he eat?
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Solve 100 divided by 25. The answer is 4. That means 25 is ¼ of 100. Another easy one is 50%. Everybody knows it's ½. Then there's 75% which is ¾. We also took a test that's being graded as a quiz. After that, I worked on some pages in my math journal.

Language Arts
Today, we made our Nobel Peace Prize crayons. We selected a Nobel Peace Prize winner that related to how MLK won. I picked Kim Dae-Jung, president of South Korea because he fought peacefully for human rights like MLK fought for Negro rights. The way we created the crayon was simple. We attached a photo of our winner on to the tip of the crayon. Then in the middle, we wrote why he/she won. We then colored the background to add some style. The finished project should look like this:
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When I finished my crayon, the teacher glued it to the back of someone else's and I was done.

Science
Today, we took our Vocab Quiz on rocks. We had to figure out which kind of rock it is and other kinds of questions. The copier was down so we had to use an index card for the test. It was pretty funny. When everyone finished, we looked at different ways to study. Two of my personal favorites were the acronym and the funny saying. In the funny saying, take the vocab words and change them into a different word that has the same first letter. Like this.

Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary can be changed to Iggy said, “Moo!”

Same thing goes with the acronyms. Just a little different.

Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Change that to...
Ink
Splattered
Madness

Every word should remind you of the vocab word. These are fun, free, creative, and the perfect way to study for anything major coming up.