This morning we played SPENT!
This game simulates living a month in poverty. It presents the player with some very difficult decisions and limits their resources.
The kids had a really good time, but WOW did they turn ruthless quick. At one point, we had a 50/50 tie as to whether we should spend money on our mother’s medicine or not……yeah…..ask your student which they voted for 😉
During rotations, students got another chance to play spent on their own, and they seemed to have a really good time.
Tonight starts the steady load of homework! We have 4 assignments:
In math, we got a Math Coach book. We will be using this to review throughout this last quarter. Tonight students should do pages 17, 19, 20, and 21 in this book. This is mostly review and I don’t expect any problems. If there are, there are examples and explanations in the book.
In Language Arts, students received a set of idioms used in sentences. They should use the context to determine each idiom’s meaning.
For science students received a reading on the issues faced by astronauts in space. Tonight they should read and summarize this text. They should also pick ONE paragraph from it, and analyze the text structure used. They should then fill out a graphic organizer for the paragraph.
I don’t really think we need a tl;dr for that, just do the things above, and read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter