Friday, 03/06/09

Math
Today, we played a game of Simon Says, but this time, it was Miss V. Says. If she says, “Translation left,” we slide to the left. If she doesn't say Miss V. then you're out of the game. I got out in the middle of the game. We then took our quiz on the PSSA vocab words like the four types of angles, different shapes, and parts of a prism, and more. It was easy because most of the words were worked on a lot. Acute, obtuse, right and straight angles were practiced already. That's why it was easy. After the test, we worked on a worksheet that practiced reflections and translations of a shape on a grid. It was easy. My whole group finished in a flash. I'm anxious to see what my score is for the vocab test. I hope I got an A.

Language Arts
Today, we worked on our Predicting Outcomes worksheet for chapter 9. We make predictions for chapter 9, based on what we learned from the previous chapters. After that worksheet, we read chapter 9. It was very long. We didn't even finish it yet. It's about when Claudia and amie meet Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. She lets the kids try to find the file about the Angel in her many drawers of files. Claudia and Jamie start searching through. After reading, we saved just enough time to review the test. I only got about 3 questions wrong. For the open ended, I got a ¾. I got shocked but I soon thought it was good enough. Just as we finished checking, class was over and we moved on.

Science
Today, we filled in the Fill in the Blanks section for Plate Tectonics. That just means how plates work. First of all, plates are just gigantic chunks of Earth. Now, there are three ways plates can move. They can go up to form mountains, they could pull apart from each other, or they could go one on top of the other. Also, there are two types of crust. The Oceanic Crust and the Continental Crust. When new crust starts to rise, the two types of crust spread apart and the new crust fills in. There's a model that you can make to represent what really happens. It's fun, easy, and all you need is tape, two pieces of paper, a can/shoebox, and scissors. Cut one rectangles in the can/shoebox then put both pieces of paper in the hole. Then from the outside, tape the paper down on the ends. Then, when you push the paper up, it looks like the pieces of paper or “crusts” are moving apart.