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First, we went into the computer lab and worked on our Goldilocks stories. \u00a0These are coming along nicely, and we are starting to add some pictures so we can make a little storybook.<\/p>\n
In order to do this, students are making cartoon pictures over at www.toondoo.com. \u00a0Today students made a login, and started playing around with the different options. \u00a0They are more than welcome to continue this at home, and they should have a good idea of how to create pictures and save them to their account to retrieve later.<\/p>\n
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Next we talked a good bit about different shapes. \u00a0We’ve been doing a lot of work with area, and now we’re going to connect that to defining different shapes. \u00a0Eventually we’ll talk about how basically everything can be broken down into triangles (even circles!) which is kind of how trig\/calculus\/all that other stuff works.<\/p>\n
We also made a neat little shape out of straws. \u00a0Ask your student what shape it ALWAYS is, and what shape is it SOMETIMES.<\/p>\n
Tonight we\u00a0have a sheet full of shapes that they should define according to the notes they took in class. \u00a0Basically they should go from least-specific to most specific, naming everything that the shape is. \u00a0For example they shouldn’t just say “square”, they should say “polygon, quadrilateral, parallelogram, rectangle, square”. \u00a0If they need it, the little cheat sheet chart is here:<\/p>\n
QuadrilateralHierarchy<\/a><\/p>\n And the homework is here:<\/p>\n ShapeClassificationNov17<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Language Arts we talked about text structures, and the reasons an author would pick a specific structure to tell their story. \u00a0We took some notes on this as well, which focused on ways to spot different text structures. \u00a0Tonight students have a collection of short passages to read. \u00a0They should identify the text structure of each passage, and then fill in a short graphic organizer detailing that structure for each passage. \u00a0The notes and the worksheet are here:<\/p>\n TextStructuresNotesNov17<\/a><\/p>\n TextStructuresNov17<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And before you knew it, we were out of time!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n One math worksheet, naming shapes (all the way from general to specific)<\/p>\n ShapeClassificationNov17<\/a><\/p>\n One LA worksheet, naming text structures<\/p>\n TextStructuresNov17<\/a><\/p>\n And as always, read for 35 minutes!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Also, this week is McTeacher night. \u00a0If you come to the McDonalds on Wednesday night from 5-7, you might see me taking your order!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tons of stuff today! First, we went into the computer lab and worked on our Goldilocks stories. \u00a0These are coming along nicely, and we are starting to add some pictures so we can make a little storybook. In order to do this, students are making cartoon pictures over at www.toondoo.com. \u00a0Today students made a … Continue reading Homework Nov 17 (Mon)<\/span>