Fun Poem Online!

Click HERE to make a neat-o "wordle" poem!

Look into my eyes...

Pretty funny picture, huh? This is from Halloween a few years ago. My wife said it looks like I have my "game face" on when I play racquetball. She says I look very serious, like I'm going to win the game.


Speaking of game face, we are now heading into the end of third quarter, and MAP testing is right around the corner (end of March to mid-April). We'll be doing quite a bit of review, using our Tungsten test data to drive some of the reteaching. Time to get your game face on.

You are all doing a fantastic job in the classroom, reading, working out tough arithmetic equations, etc. Our focus will be working out more of the "blue sheet" math questions, giving complete responses, and practicing our number skills. In reading, we'll continue to investigate a wide range of literature, but still focus on those key "good reader" skills: rereading, summarizing, inferencing, and connecting.

If you have a "game face" picture you'd like me to upload, bring it on your flash drive. Get your GAME FACE ON!!!!

Busy!

Busy, busy week! We're working with geometric translations, rotations, and reflections. In addition, students are working on independent in-class projects:
perimeter, area, tessellations, and heiroglyphics! Here are some pics of our class at work:

Ch. 18 Spelling Words

Unit 18 Words

almost
there
probably
power
girl
all ready
however
past
because
problem
young
longer
didn’t
until
understand
before
course
warm
deep
winter
instead
change

Harcourt Math Link!

Here are some great Think Math Geometry games:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/thinkmath/topics/geometry.html

Enjoy, and make sure to try the coordinate geometry games. It's like the game Battleship!

Pattern Blocks Online!

Click here for a pattern block game!

Make a Mixture!

Click HERE to make your own mixture!