Agenda notes:
-Read on Raz Kids for 20 minutes
-UOI summative materials
-Bake sale tomorrow
-Casual Day tomorrow
-Spelling pg 89-92
-Spelling sentences
-Cursive up to pg 90
-Math worksheet [grids and maps]
-Sign and return math test


After we worked on writing our spelling sentences. Every week this needs to be done for our list words. 

We must make detailed sentences with adjectives!

After we went to PE with Miss Yustin.

Then we had math! We started our new unit today which is Motion Geometry!

Today's lesson was on describing how to move from one place to another on a grid.

First, we started talking about what a grid is and where have you seen it before? Students we able to say we used them for our data management unit when creating graphs and sometimes they saw it on the paper we used in class. 

We figured out that a grid is a series of lines in columns and rows that make small squares.
We then looked at a chess board and asked to describe it. We decided it is definitely a grid.

We used a chess board to figure out the different ways to descibe how a knight moves in a game of chess. Students worked on decribing the different L patterns. It moves to a square that is two squares away horizontally and one square vertically, or two squares vertically and one square horizontally.


After we looked at a map and describing how to move from one place to the other with the correct vocabulary and precision.

We discussed two ways you could correctly answer the questions and it involved flipping around either the left/right and the up/down. We also discussed how the movement of an 'L' is usually the fastest instead of zig-zags.

Students then worked in partners to challenge each other to describe how to move from one person to another on a grid. 

We made sure not include the space that we are starting from!

After we looked at how sometimes a location can be pinpointed on a map right where the lines intersect. We then looked at how to go backwards from a location by using the opposite directions.

Then we worked on our worksheets. 

After we went to first lunch and recess.

When we returned we read chapter 6 of our novel study. 'Horrible Harry and the Holidaze.' We wrote down prediction before reading and learned how to make valid predictions using the title, pictures, and the information that we previously read.

After we had French with Mme. Stella.

When we returned from recess we had UOI. Today we had an in depth look at the form and function of levers. 

We read 'Get to now levers'

Students were able to apply the knowledge the learned from yesterday to today.

We talked about the three parts of a level 'ELF' effort, load, fulcrum and the three classes of levers.

We then moved into our experiments and stations.

One station was moving a stack of math textbooks with a pencil in which they had to use two pencils [one as the wedge] to make a level to move the textbook. Let's just say in the process we broke a few pencils and a ruler. But through our inquiry students were eventually able to successfully lift the books with the pencil.

One station made catapults, with pencils, popsicle sticks and block.

One station made a first class level using a rule, pencil crayon as the wedge and blocks as the load and effort. 

One station was trying different experiments to move a load.

After we came together to share our findings about how a wedge helps us move objects. We know if we move the fulcrum closer to the load it is easier to move!

Then we got ready for home!