JPaul was absent for class. The class time was used to prep for the Black History Month celebration today.

Addison did word practice with Richard, playing Bingo. She read a book about Disney World.

Christopher typed his story and made more plans for future writings.

Kellan dictated a story for me to type for him.

Kellan practiced his spelling words on a dry erase board. We read The Watsons Go to Birmingham and discussed the book.

I read Who Will Win books, and we discussed them.

Using the change-color markers, Richard practiced his spelling words.

Kaitlin created a piece on Lewis Hamilton to display on the wall of famous people who are black.

I have realized that Andrew and I need to take it back a step with understanding the differences and similarities in quadrilaterals. Today, we worked on a graphic organizer that started with a funky looking quadrilateral and then we broke it down into trapezoid, parallelogram, rhombus, square, and rectangle. We discussed the properties of when the polygon has parallel sides, what category it's in. If it has congruent sides, what category it's in. By having Andrew draw out the figures and write their names, it seemed to help him differentiate them. I asked Andrew questions like, "True or False: all rhombuses are squares." He answered False. I asked, "Are all square rhombuses?" He said, Yes. He asked me when he would take his test, and I said I wasn't sure because I wanted to make sure he felt comfortable with the material first and I didn't think he was ready. We will stay at this pace for a moment.

Today Joshua and I started out by going through the AP Classroom FRQ he had for homework last night. He got 4 out of the 6 points for it. He did a good job, but made an error on rounding and notation (which is an error he doesn't usually make). Next, we took notes in 2.15 on Semi-log plots. We learned that this is a different way to represent data in a way that we are used to. We recognized when we do this that the information looks linear. We used our calculator to create a linear regression model. Then we used it to predict future values.