Today's agenda notes:
-Read for 20 minutes on Raz-Kids
-Spelling pg. 89-92
-Spelling sentences
-Math worksheet [slides]
-Sign and return math test


For math today we learned about slides and how to identify slides [translations] using pattern blocks and pictures.

We started off with an activity. We all faced the front and practiced sliding to the left, right, forward and backward. Cha cha slide...after we discussed how each time we slid we did not turn and always faced the front. 

After we looked at using pattern blocks and sliding them. Students described:

How a slide moves an object along a line. The way the object faces does not change. Slides can be in different directions. Slides can be vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. A slide is sometimes called a translation. So when we did our activity we always faced the same, and when we go on a slide we don't turn we face the same way but are moving one place to another in a straight line. 

After students worked with pattern blocks to draw slides and describe them.

After we shared some of our slides and then talked about the bottom portion of what is shown here:

They had to tell me which shapes were slides, which ones slid vertically, horizontally and diagonally. 

We also looked at describing why some shape I drew were not slides. [because they turned or flipped]

Then they worked on their worksheets. 

After lunch we read 'Get to know inclined planes'. Before reading students shared their prior knowledge of inclined planes and described the experiments they did on Monday.

We recapped how friction makes a inclined plane slow objects down. We also discussed how the steeper it is [means the angle] means that it is more difficult to get up. 

After we began working on our UOI projects for the rest of the day. 

We still had French as usual in between.

Can't wait to see the finished projects!