Tonight is a fairly easy night. This is because there *will* be homework tomorrow night. It will be due Saturday (or the next time I see the students!)
We started today with a bit of algebra, and how we would go about creating an equation with unknown values. See if you can come up with the equations and answers that we did:
We had a really great round of centers today. The work I am seeing coming out of these has been steadily increasing in quality. I feel we will be finishing up with fractions and doing a review of the year’s material soon. After that we’ll be focusing on more advanced topics like the above problem.
Tonight students have *no* math homework. We took a pop quiz today that was basically just like the homework this week, where students work backwards from an answer and make an equation and a word problem, so I feel like they have been worked enough for the day.
In Language Arts we looked at a poem about trust, and identified the figurative language in it. We talked about how we can use figurative language in our own poetry, and what that might look like. We came up with a number of figurative statements about wolves:
“mouth full of daggers” “silent, stalking murderer”, “Rare as unicorns”
And we also talked about extended metaphors, and how we can incorporate those into our writing as well.
Tonight students need to write their own poem, using figurative language. I would like to see an example each of simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole in their poem. It should be of a decent length, on a topic of their choosing. They will be turning this in tomorrow for a writing grade, so I expect them to put some thought into it.
Students should also finish their last two ‘graph’ sentences.
In Science we talked more about forces, and Newton’s second law. This is the famous F=Ma law. The basic point is that as force increases, so does acceleration. If mass increases and force stays the same, acceleration decreases.
We saw this with our little lego car and guy. We sent him down a ramp (constant force of gravity) and he went about half-way across the table (where he was stopped due to friction). We added mass to his car (a bunch of pop cubes) and then thought about whether he should go farther if we sent him down the ramp this time. Well, according to Newton’s second law if mass increases, then acceleration decreases when force stays the same. As predicted, the more mass we added, the shorter distance our lego car would travel across the table. It seemed we are finally all starting to ‘get’ this.
so, tl;dr
not much today!
Write a poem using 4 types of figurative language on a topic of your choice. Minimum half a page, this will be turned in for a grade.
Finish your last two ‘graph’ vocab word sentences.
READ!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
Again: School on Saturday. Half day. Buses run in the morning as normal.