“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?” – Douglas Adams
Good afternoon!
Today we started off with our Math review. Students are completing their Unit Test on Geometry tomorrow. We reviewed the six attributes of shapes that we have focused on: line length, parallel lines, vertices, perpendicular lines, diagonals, and lines of symmetry. Students should have an understanding of all of these attributes, as well as how to represent them when discussing a particular shape. Students will also need to know the names of the quadrilaterals that we have been discussing in class, as well as be able to discuss and draw prisms and pyramids. We discussed the importance of understanding the vocabulary of this Unit on Friday, and I reminded students of it today. They should know the vocabulary words, as this is a large part of the content of our unit. The vocabulary that students should review tonight is as follows:
- hatch marks
- parallel lines
- vertex
- perpendicular lines
- horizontal
- vertical
- right angle
- intersect
- diagonals
- lines of symmetry
- quadrilaterals (as well as square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid, diamond, and kite)
- prisms
- pyramids
- faces and bases
In Language Arts today, students started to work on a piece of Opinion Writing. While we have practiced Narrative and Expository Writing throughout the year, this is our first opportunity to really focus on Opinion Writing – outside of our Journal entries and Writer’s Notebooks. Today students were working on writing a persuasive piece on one of the following topics:
- Students should/should not have homework
- School should/should not start at 9:00 am instead of 8:00 am
- Year round schooling is/is not a great idea
- There should/should not be school on Fridays/Mondays
- School should/ should not have 5 days of school and then 5 days off of school
Students helped to select some of the topics. They were given 10 minutes to start to plan their piece. We used the following graphic organizer as a brief introduction of how to organize a piece of Opinion Writing. Other options will be shared with students throughout our study:
Agenda:
Read 20 minutes
Math – pgs. 250-251 #1-8 (Show What You Know)
Geometry Unit Test – tomorrow
Science: Chemistry tests signed and returned ASAP
Jive on Brett Drive – Thursday @ 6:00 pm
Wear Red! – tomorrow we are going to be wearing red out of respect for the RCMP officers who were killed in Moncton. An email went home with more detail.
