Tuesday April 2nd, 2019

Here is what we did today:

Art's Night Dance Rehearsal: We worked with a choreographer on our dance!

Inquiry into Language: Today we learned about Homophones! Homophones are pairs of words that sound the same, but have distinctly different meanings and different spellings. We brainstormed examples on the board together and then worked on some worksheets.

Recess/Lunch

French: Please see Mme. Stella's blog for more detail. https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Inquiry into Math: We continued our lesson on quadrilaterals and properties of quadrilaterals. We talked about the use of hatch marks to tell us which sides of the shape are the same. These are small straight lines. Next we talked about parallel lines. If two lines are parallel that means they can go on forever and never touch. These lines are arrows. Finally we talked about how some shapes can also be classified as another. For example, A square is rhombus because it has four equal sides and two pairs of parallel lines. 

We also explored angles in quadrilaterals! We talked about how squares and rectangles have 4 equal angles, parallelograms and rhombuses have opposite equal angles and lastly all kites have 2 equal angles. To show that angles are equal you draw matching arcs.  

We went through 6 different quadrilaterals and explored each one in detail. We also watched some videos to help us better understand and remember the attributes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMkY_uIku9Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OW2bU0So-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzJ6l-Hr7lc

Recess/Lunch

UOI: We learned about the 5 layers of soils. We learned about what was in each layer as well. This was to assist us with our art activity tomorrow!

Pie in the face: Poor Ms. Gandy got the pie today! I'm safe for another day!!!!

Agenda!