Friday, 01/23/2009

Math
Today, we worked on taking data, and making it into a graph or a chart. We took an empty chart and data from the question, “Which two are your favorite sports?” The sports were written down and we filled out the chart. We tallied them, then wrote down the number/amount of each, then the fraction, then the percentage. We did the same for the next chart but this time it was with the question, “What is your favorite type of entertainment. On the next page, we made a bar graph with the entertainment data. It was interesting to see how much TV beat Reading by. Then, we made a pie chart with the sports data. We divided the pie using the percentage of each. Bike riding was the largest portion of the pie. Next, we made a stem and leaf plot using data about the duration of your shower or bath. This was weird. Some person goes in for only 3 minutes while some other person goes for 40 minutes! I'm glad it's not true. If it was, that would be just plain wacky.

Language Arts
Today,we read chapter 4 of The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Claudia and Jamie get in line to see the Angel Statue made of marble who people think Michelangelo made. Claudia is just amazed by it. She just has to get more. The next day, they try to get a magazine with an important story about the Angel statue in it. Jamie doesn't want to buy a copy of the magazine she wants so they make things easy and steal a magazine from a man when he wasn't looking and read about it. They're criminals. Hahaha. We couldn't finish the entire chapter and the disk was being funky and kept stopping in places so we read the rest of the chapter at homeroom.

Social Studies
Today, we worked on the Explorer project. The first page asks about his birth, his family info, his life before exploring, and other questions. On the second page were questions on some of his journeys and a couple questions about his death like how, when, and where he died. The back page is about his acomplishments, and the pages in between are asking for us to pick out some of his journeys and talk about them. We only got the first page, the second page, and a portion of Journey #1 done. It was a lot though. We have plenty of time left.