Tonight is a fairly easy\u00a0night. \u00a0This is because there *will* be homework tomorrow night. \u00a0It will be due Saturday (or the next time I see the students!)<\/p>\n
We started today with a bit of algebra, and how we would go about creating an equation with unknown values. \u00a0See if you can come up with the equations and answers that we did:<\/p>\n
Unknowns<\/a><\/p>\n We had a really great round of centers today. \u00a0The work I am seeing coming out of these has been steadily increasing in quality. \u00a0I feel we will be finishing up with fractions and doing a review of the year’s material soon. \u00a0After that we’ll be focusing on more advanced topics like the above problem.<\/p>\n Tonight students have *no* math homework. \u00a0We 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Language Arts we looked at a poem about trust, and identified the figurative language in it. \u00a0We talked about how we can use figurative language in our own poetry, and what that might look like. \u00a0We came up with a number of figurative statements about wolves:<\/p>\n “mouth full of daggers” “silent, stalking murderer”, “Rare as unicorns”<\/p>\n And we also talked about extended metaphors, and how we can incorporate those into our writing as well.<\/p>\n Tonight students need to write their own poem, using figurative language. \u00a0I would like to see an example each of simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole in their poem. \u00a0It should be of a decent length, on a topic of their choosing. \u00a0They will be turning this in tomorrow for a writing grade, so I expect them to put some thought into it.<\/p>\n Students should also finish their last two ‘graph’ sentences.<\/p>\n In Science we talked more about forces, and Newton’s second law. \u00a0 This is the famous F=Ma law. \u00a0 The basic point is that as force increases, so does acceleration. \u00a0If mass increases and force stays the same, acceleration decreases.<\/p>\n We saw this with our little lego car and guy. \u00a0We 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). \u00a0 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. \u00a0Well, according to Newton’s second law if mass increases, then acceleration decreases when force stays the same. \u00a0As predicted, the more mass we added, the shorter distance our lego car would travel across the table. \u00a0It seemed we are finally all starting to ‘get’ this.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n not much today!<\/p>\n Write a poem using 4 types of figurative language on a topic of your choice. \u00a0Minimum half a page, this will be turned in for a grade.<\/p>\n Finish your last two ‘graph’ vocab word sentences.<\/p>\n READ!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Again: School on Saturday. \u00a0Half day. \u00a0Buses run in the morning as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tonight is a fairly easy\u00a0night. \u00a0This is because there *will* be homework tomorrow night. \u00a0It 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. \u00a0See if you can come up with the … Continue reading Homework May 14 (Thurs)<\/span>