Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Use Your Words

Today we've covered quite a gamut, from a re-reading of a previously better-performed poem about a bear to a discussion about current events (starting next week!) to learning about the origin of the San Francisco 49ers' name. Tonight for homework, the kids will have a meaning exercise due for Spelling--this is where they will either use each word in a sentence or draw an illustration for each word. Today's word of the day is plethora.

On Friday, we will be having a quiz for my homeroom Math class over products of numbers (factor curtains for factor rainbows, for instance) plus their four math vocabulary words (sum, difference, product, and quotient).

Yesterday during Social Studies, we came across the word tributary in our geography lesson. I was trying to figure out with the class if the Latin root tri-, meaning "three" of course, factored into that word. We couldn't decide how it could work. I looked it up and found out that it was actually the stem trib-, which means "to join a larger body", which of course makes more sense. Other examples the kids came up with: tribe and contribute. I love etymology!

For Math, my class will have Study Link 1.6 and Math Boxes 1.5 for homework tonight.

Great to see you all here last night. My class was covered 100%! Very cool.

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