As we have worked toward the April break, we have been focused on the topics listed above, as well as others. During our literacy and writing time we have been working on crafting a thesis about the characters in our books. Once we have a thesis we have worked to prove it by citing evidence from the book. This evidence takes the form of lists of attributes about the character, character actions that connect to a theme of the book, along with well chosen quotes.
Hexagons...we have been using these to understand and illustrate circles and how they are measured. If you have a hexagon, and circumscribe a circle around it, the length of one side of the hexagon will be the same length as the radius of the circle. This can also be a helpful illustration as to why circles are measured in 360 degrees. The interior vertices of the six triangles that make up a hexagon, all have the measure of 60 degrees, and as there are six of these angles the sum of these...you get the idea.
Authentic reflections:
This week has gone by fast but it was a blast. We also worked on triangles and hexagons to and we got them wrong or right and nobody picked a fight. This week in pe we played man hunt with you and we had a large playing ground where we could run and have fun. This leads up to April break with lots fun but everybody had fun in this last week of school. And we had a blast with our friends but in this last week school nobody went boo hoo hoo.
This week has been an awesome week at school, I had GOTR and there was the school talent show, but one one thing that I most liked doing this week at school was learning how to make a hexagon out of triangles. After we made the hexagon we made a circle to see how precise are hexagon(s) were. That was very fun! What we did at girls on the run this week was an activity which includes running in the hallways. Then we got ready to go on a run (we were stretching.) Also this week I went to the talent show, it was really, really good. Today I am going to see the talent show again at school. That was my awesome week at school.
This week in Library we have been working on our book trailers. Some people decided to partner up with others and form a team. First we chose a book, I chose Gregor the Overlander written by Suzanne Collins. Then we made a planner filling out the scenes, what they would say, and how we would make them. Finally we are starting to take pictures of our scenes and doing the writing work. To actually finish the project we upload the videos and images onto WeVideo. Most of our projects end in a ? to leave the people who are watching the presentation with a mystery. This makes them want to read the book and find out how the mystery ends, just like a movie trailer. With in the presentation we can choose different fonts to emphasize the feeling of the book, for example, scary, sad, happy… etc…
In math we have been drawing triangles.& we made hexagons it was off by a few inches and then we made a circle around the hexagon.
This week I was happy because we were doing nature journaling and I was doing lots of cool stuff in football like intercepting the ball and making touchdowns! We were learning some cool stuff like in literacy we were talking about forest fires and how they can spread. I was amazed when Mr.Willard told us the story about when the guy was going to get swallowed by blazing hot fire, but listen to this he made another fire and got in the ashes is it that crazy! The best thing was the talent show.
Enjoy your April break, and we will see everyone again on the 25th!
-Dave
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