Tuesday, 04/14/2009

Math
Today, we worked on the latitude and longitude lesson. Basically, the latitude is from east to west, and the longitude is from north to south. The class filled a sheet out in our journal about our location. Two students in the class handed us two small pieces of paper holding either a latitude or a longitude. My location was °110 W for latitude and °180 for longitude. My location was on water. We then put together all the kids' location (land or water) and made a fraction of who had water. Then we made that fraction into a percent and that's what we put in our estimate for how much water covers the land. We got 68% as our guess. The real answer was 71.11% which was pretty close. We were surprised at the outcome.

Language Arts
Today, I started and finished reading Section 1 of the book Hoot In the story about the boy. Roy finds three bags tied together and when he opens one, snakes surround his ankles. A boy blindfolds him and tells him to run. Soon, Roy takes off the blindfold. He notices that he is in the middle of the street and he dodges a car at the last second, falling onto the curb to see Beatris holding his bike. In the cop story, Officer Delinko sleeps during duty and when he wakes up, he notices that his windows are painted all black. Officer Delinko gets punished with desk duty for a month because of the $410 bill he received. This story is actually pretty good.

Social Studies
Today, we learned about the proprietor, the purpose and the colonists of Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and New Jersey. A proprietor is a person who owns and controls land. The proprietor of New York is James, the Duke of York. The proprietor of Pennsylvania is William Penn, and the proprietor of New Jersey is James Berkely. There was another founder of New Jersey. For purpose, we just had to list why the proprietor wanted to start the colony. For colonists, we just needed to write what the colonists were allowed to do. It was pretty easy.