Wednesday, 02/25/09

Math
Today, we reviewed what a coordinate grid was. It's a graph with certain points that form something. Those points have something called an ordered pair. There are two numbers. The first shows how far over you go on the grid, and the second number shows how far up you go in the grid. An example is 6,7. I went six over and seven up. It was easy. The fun activity we did was we drew a picture using a coordinate grid. I managed to get an oddly shaped peace sign. Some parts looked good while some looked demented. When we finished the picture, we wrote down the ordered pair for each point. After that step, we traded with a friend and tried to figure out what there's were. My partner's picture was a bird. My partner didn't get my peace sign right. Some parts weren't correct, but I think I wrote them wrong. I wish we could do it more often. We also tool a math survey. There were questions about math where your choices were Yes, No, and Maybe. I don't think I circled No a lot. I usually put down Sometimes.

Language Arts
Today, we received our Literature Menu for section 4 of the book, From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. We got to work on the discussion questions for chapters 7 and 8, and the best part is, we finished them! We completed all of them in one class. It was awesome. I also completed the wordles except for one of them. It looks like a running house. The wordles were just extra credit though. There was also an extra credit activity where you had to draw three things that described a character. I did Jamie. So far, I have only done one. It's about how picky he is about preserving money. I drew a cab and Jamie near it saying, “No, Claudia!” I'm trying to think of what else to draw.

Science
Today, we finished filling in the chart. Like always, the teacher assigned each group a certain landform. My group got the mighty volcano. I did the intro, the definition, and drew the little picture. My classmate did a list of examples. Our picture turned out pretty good. It looked fantastic from far away for some reason. There were the volcano, the mountain, the plain, the hill, the glacier, the glacial grooves, the sand dunes, the sand spits, the barrier islands, the mesa, and the canyon. It was fun teaching the class and learning from others at the same time. There was also a chart about different types of erosion. Moving water, ice, wind, and other kinds of erosions were in the chart.