Saturday, December 27, 2008

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life . . .



After watching the video above (and/or reading the book review on the class novel page on my webpage), please read the first 2 chapters of Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life. ONLY THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS!!!! I know it might be hard to stop (I did not want to either)

What do you think is in the box Jeremy received? If a mysterious box was suddenly delivered to you, what would it look like and who would it be from? You can be as creative as you want . . .

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Mr. Pilson needs our help!


At Mr. Pilson's blog, he needs our help writing a song about animals from different continents. Can you help him write some lyrics? He needs a short poem about whales, elephants, seals and penguins. Can you write a short poem about these?

Visit his blog to post your poem as a comment
http://makingmarvelousmusic.blogspot.com/

4 Squares


If you take 4 squares that are all one inch by one inch and place them side by side, you will have a figure that has an area of 4 square inches. The perimeter of this shape will be 10 inches.
How many different ways can you arrange these 4 squares if they have to be joined along an edge and not just at the corners? What is the area of each of these figures? What is the perimeter of each of these figures?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Landforms


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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Perimeter


We have done several activities on the ActivBoard and the laptops dealing with perimeter. Tell me about what you have learned and how you would teach someone else about how to find perimeter. We also talked about the difference in regular and irregular polygons.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever


Since you have not read this great book that is a quick read, we are going to read, discuss, and enjoy it in the short time before our holiday break!

Monday, December 1, 2008

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life



After watching the video above (and/or reading the book review on the class novel page on my webpage), please read the first 2 chapters of Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life. ONLY THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS!!!! I know it might be hard to stop (I did not want to either)

What do you think is in the box Jeremy received? If a mysterious box was suddenly delivered to you, what would it look like and who would it be from? You can be as creative as you want . . .