Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Learning and Drills

There real growth in school comes, I've learned, not on those big exciting days when lots of things seem to happen but on the ordinary days when a quiet routine carries learning forward. This was just one of those days. The only thing "exciting" today was a fire drill with a lengthy explanation about what to do when bees are sighted on the playground.

But a lot of wonderful learning is going on. Equivalent fractions are hard, but we're learning them. We'll be done with the Money unit in the next couple days.

Homework: (1) Finish "Golden Touch" storyboard. Draw and color carefully. This is an arts grade. (2) Do both pages of the spelling review. The words on side one are the same words in the word search. (3) Math, page 512, #8-28. Reduce to simplest form when possible. (4) Write a four line poem. Each line should have 8 syllables. This is preparation for our next music writing assignment.

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