Week Five

Hello!

Hope everyone had a nice long weekend.

We skipped our multiple drill this week, so next week we will start mult 6. This week we focused on place value, what each digit represents, all the way up to a million. We did this through a nice game called “Roll to a million”

After that we focused on figuring out how many 10s, 100s, 1000s, ect could fit into larger numbers. Its a slow process, but everyone seemed to be getting it near the end.

During language arts we practiced our weekly words, either prefixes re/un or short/long a words, by sorting them into various groups different ways. After we looked at verbs and adverbs, reading a book on each and playing a game. Some of the students sure can walk “graciously” and “awkwardly”.

I’m science we looked at different levels of solutions, either unsaturated, saturated, or supersaturated. We experimented using sugar water, and hopefully if our experiment goes well sugar crystals will form.

This week we looked at mining and minerals as a natural resource, focusing on the positive and negative effects of the different mining operations, beloefs, and practices around the world. We practiced mining ourselves by mining chocolate chips out of cookies.

There were mixed results, but overall the class really seemed to understand the concept of making money verse protecting the environment. Those cookies still intact didn’t mine as many chocolate chips, this not making as much money, but saving money and the environment more. Those cookies that turned to crumble found more chocolate chips, making more money, but losing money due to environmental penalties. By the end of the class there was a lot of discussion going on about various mining practices.

And finally in French we looked at responding to questions with our personal information, such as je m’appelle, je suis in garcon, and j’ai 10 ans.

Next week is another short one, with no class on Friday for the Pro D. We will be looking at more place value values by turning standard form numbers into expanded form. We will be reviewing our grammar section of adjectives, nouns, verbs, and adverbs with an alliteration game, hopefully helping us practice for the grammar quiz. We will be creating our own mixtures and solutions, and challenging others to try to separate their solution. For social studies we will be researching the forestry industry, and investigate the benefits and negatives of clear cutting. And finally in French we will begin looking at stating our preferences to questions asked.