Friday October 14, 2011 Day 3

We started our day off as usual graphing the temperature and  having our agenda's checked.   We then wrote in our journal about our most valuable or priceless possession.    We focused on having a topic sentence, followed by good descriptive sentences and finishing with a personal statement about our possession.
We really had to work on organizing our ideas and not jumping back and forth with ideas while writing.

We then did some Geometry and learned about the quadrilateral  and parallelogram.   
We looked at the definitions and then drew examples of each.   
               quadrilateral:  a shape with four sides and vertices
               paralleogram: a four sided shape with opposite sides parallel
                   We should be able to sort shapes by different  qualities and know that a square, for example,  is a rectangle, a quadrilateral and a parallelogram.  We will continue to explore this further in the upcoming weeks.

After recess, we worked writing about our photographs.   Students completed their rough copies, and then highlighted their mistakes.  I assisted with their editing before beginning the final draft.

After lunch we completed our art.    It was great that our art included examples of parallel lines and circles and it related to our geometry lesson.

working hard to complete our artwork

examples of finished paintings



After recess in the afternoon, the class computer lab. with Mr. Brutto and worked on developing keyboarding skills using UltraKey.

HOMEWORK:  Math:  Find 10 or more examples of quadrilaterals at home.  
                         If you can find examples other than squares and rectangles that would be good.
                           Read daily.
             Some students still havent finished Word Work from this week and was sent home again!!