Thursday, 03/26/2009

Math
Today, we practiced plotting points on a grid. They gave us a column of “original ordered pairs” to plot the “original sailboat. Then on the next column, we had to make a change to the “original ordered pairs” and then plot those points. We had three columns for changes and each had a different change. We then had a total of four ships on the grid. We then had to find each type of movement from the original to one of the changed ones. We got for a slide for original to change 1, a flip for original to change 2, and a half turn for original to change 3. It was pretty easy.

Language Arts
Today, we filled out a paper on the story events in section 1 or chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the book Hoot. Our first event was that Dana shoved Roy into the window and Roy saw the mysterious running boy. Our next one was Officer Delinko visited a scene and investigated it. The next one was that Roy saw the running boy again and started chasing him. The next one was that Officer Delinko finds alligators in the port-o-potty at the crime scene. The next and last one was that Roy was yelled at by Beatris for bumping into her. It was easy but the whole class wanted one more space to use. Five didn't seem like enough.

Science
Today, we watched the entire class present their Environmental Awareness Poster except for one student. We also had to keep a list of kids who we thought deserved to be entered into the Earth Day poster contest. There were a few that just had to go into the contest. When i presented, I was so nervous but it ended up okay. I think they liked it. All of the students' posters had cool facts and great designs to it. One person even used recycled paper! There were a lot of choices to put on my list and I wish I could have made it longer. There were just so many fascinating posters. After all the presenters were done, class was nearly over. I'm curious to see who will enter the contest and if any of us wins.