Sorry for forgetting to post yesterday. I was installing Windows 7 on my laptop, and I was so engrossed in figuring it out that I just forgot about other stuff.
A nice, productive day – like usual. We started off the morning discussing complex sentences. The students needed a bit of help at first, but the quickly got the idea of identifying dependent and independent clauses in sentences and writing complex sentences of their own. We checked, corrected, and discussed the homework. We were a little short on time to start a substantive lesson at this point, so I gave them so time to get started on their reading and spelling homework.
We went to Tech Center after recess. The grand plan here was to spend time working on their homepages in ThingQuest, but there were so many connection problems that half the class ended up working on typing instead. Ms. Richard is working with the District here to see what we can do about internet connectivity in the computer lab.
After lunch we read most of a chapter of Island of the Blue Dolphins. We worked with rhythm instruments to start developing a composition for unpitched percussion based on the patterns we discovered in “Pease Porridge”. You can see the students having some fun with this below.
After music we went out to PE. We came back from the yard, and started the math work for the day.
Homework: Students had substantial time to start on the spelling and the study sheet during class. (1) Do sentences for each of the spelling words. (2) Do the study sheet for “The Girl who Loved the Wind”. (3) Do the “Complex Sentences” worksheet. (4) Do the “Dialogue” worksheet. (5) Read the section on smoking in the Health book, and then answer questions 1-4 on page D21. (6) Do “Using Estimation,” Envision Math, pages 94-95.
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