Thursday, 01/15/2009

Math
Today, we worked on our line plot skills again. Well, kind of. We learned matching data to it's appropriate line plot. For example, If your data is about the age of your grandma and your choices are:

A- From 1 to 10
B- From 50 to 80

If your grandma was 1 to 10 years old, that would be VERY awkward. Actually, that's impossible. You wouldn't event have a mom yet! That's why choice B is appropriate because that's more like how old your grandma is. I mean, think about it. It was pretty funny. Some answers were straight up wacky. Sometimes it was challenging. There may be two answers that could work. You just need to find the right one. Today, we also met our student teacher, Miss V. We call her that because it's hard to say and we spell it that way because it's tough to spell. We introduced ourselves by telling her our name and our favorite subject. The majority of the class said Math because that's the subject Miss V is helping in.

Language Arts (L.A.)
Today, we did the first half of our centers. My group went to the Apple Activities and the Game for The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. In Apple Activities, the apples to chose from are Find It, Fix It, Add It, Sort It, Finish It, and Stretch It. I did Stretch It, where you take a sentence and make it more detailed, Finish It, where you make an end for a sentence, Sort It, where you sort a bunch of words by category, and Find It, where you take three words, car, mark, and carve, then add two more words to the pattern. I did starve and starver. When we finished, we went to the center where we learned how to play the book's game. It's like a review for each section. It's pretty fun but I only got 2 points. I beat one person though! That person got zero points. It was very fun and a great idea.

Science
Today, we went over to the library to work on an activity about rocks and minerals. For minerals, we had to pick a mineral then list it's hardness, color, luster, and streak. We had to do three of these. For rocks, we had a pile of photos of rocks and minerals. We had to find the rock photos and categorize them by igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary rock. Challenging but a fun thing to do. We didn't get much time so we couldn't finish it.