Good afternoon,

Today students started their morning with a little Art. We were making something… well… I think it will have to wait and be a surprise on Sunday!

In Math today we continued to look at rotations (or turns). Today students were practicing turning an image about a rotation point that was NOT a vertex of the image. See the example below:

 

As with yesterday, we used the same strategies. I always draw a horizontal line and a vertical line through my rotation point. This allows the students to be able to visualize the page in quarters, and it can help them to see how far to rotate an image. Students are also allowed to use tracing paper to help them to visualize the orientation of the rotation image. We’ll be having a quiz on our transformation on Tuesday, so students should practice and review over the weekend if possible.

In Science today, students reviewed our study of clouds. Today we added something to our understanding – we discussed how clouds can be used to predict the weather. Students should know that cirrus clouds indicate a change in the weather is coming, that stratus clouds indicate stormy weather, that cumulus clouds indicate fair weather, and that nimbus clouds almost always indicate rain or thunderstorms. We will be using our predicting skills along with some devices we will be constructing next week to become meteorologists and to accurately measure and predict weather ourselves!

Agenda:

Read 20 minutes

Math: pgs. 312-313 #1-3, 5

Transformations Quiz – Tuesday

Science: Chemistry tests signed and returned (ASAP)

Grade 3 Art Sale – Wednesday