Thursday

Hello,


You should have seen some dragons come home to celebrate the Chinese New Year.  Making the dragons in Art Class should help them with their clay face vessels next week. 


Since we have only had one library class in the month of January, our class joined Mr. Sullivan's class for a quick almanac refresher.  We were informed that this will make their next library class easier on them. 


We discussed and got to experience angular momentum today.  It's a tough concept to explain, easier to demonstrate.  I used the minute physics website and Mrs. Palopoli's spinning wheel to help the class understand the science of why solar systems and galaxies tend to be flat.  Cool stuff, albeit a bit beyond us.  We'll start constellation studies tomorrow.


The lesson on possessive nouns went well yesterday.  Today it got completely bogged down by the 3rd grade terms that we still haven't learned.  Plural and singular nouns confused many.  Proper and common nouns confused many.  Asking for a singular possessive proper noun proved impossible.  There are a whole slew of words that kids still see and say, "Oh yeah, that's one of those words that I ask someone about so I know it until the end of the activity and then I forget it."  Painful.  We'll go back at it tomorrow.


In math, we got into improper fractions.  They have the tools to understand this now.  It is time to let go of the side of the pool and think or swim.  I mean think or sink. 


Have a good night.


Mr. Shea