Later this evening, if I am awake enough, I will post some pictures of your children doing some mapping activities for a very cool geography activity. Students were given either a set of coordinates or a city on the globe, and they had to use the map in their Social Studies book, a globe, and my gigantic map of the world hanging in my classroom to find the locations or the cities that correspond. This is the first time I've ever done this, but it was pretty cool seeing them work together so well.
In Math today, we did some calculator work, some non-calculator work, and some square roots and square numbers.
The rest of the day we spent learning about writing responses to articles, the meaning of a predicate nominative, and we read about women in the Revolutionary War. It was a full day, and we didn't get a chance to do everything I had planned. In fact, we got about half of it done. But that's what tomorrow is for, I suppose.
Some of the kids will be coming home with permission slips today for a program called Peer Buddies. This optional activity is where students work with kids in the Life Skills classroom, showing them how to play games the right way so that they're fair. This is a pretty cool program, and it's all supervised; no worries. It is all explained on the note if they brought one home. Everyone has an opportunity to do this, but we just need your signature.
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