It is depressing as can be outside, but at least we had a full day of school!  Now we just hope that repeats itself again tomorrow.  Did you know this is the longest in a row we’ve had school so far this quarter?  What a crazy winter.

In math, we reviewed finding the area and perimeter of an object that has fractional sides.  Our entire semester has really been building to this point where we can do addition and multiplication of fractions easily, and finding perimeter and area with sides that contain fractions is a great way to combine both of those skills.

The students homework is just a review of adding and subtracting fractions: page 68 in their motivation math book.

 

In Language Arts, we worked more on poetry, and talked about poems that do not rhyme.  We all tried our hand at our own non-rhyming poem about a color of our choice.  We brainstormed things that are that color, and describing words for them.

We then chose a pattern of comparing our color to the items we chose and describing them together.  The students did a very good job with this.  My hope is that I can get these and the animal poems finished and put up on our wall by the end of this week.  If you come for the science fair, stop by and take a look!

 

We then took a VERY lengthy quiz on poems that we actually didn’t finish.   We will finish it tomorrow.  The students were doing a great job summarizing the poems stanza by stanza.  This strategy will definitely help them when trying to analyze poetry in the future.

 

We also read a selection in our motivation reading that contained three poems, and talked about these.  Students are to re-read the selection on page 109 and answer the questions on pages 113 and 114 pertaining to the selection.

 

so tldr;

one review page in motivation math – page 68

 

two pages of comprehension question in motivation reading – page 113 and 114

 

hope for another full day tomorrow!

 

-Mr. Potter