This morning, Arianna completed a unit quiz on fossils and how they are produced. She was able to demonstrate a good understanding of the material through a verbal vocabulary check and answering multiple choice questions.
Arianna practiced analyzing informational text on the IXL website. She also worked to identify supporting details in informational text. After that, I couldn't keep her from the next chapters in "City of Ember." We are determined to finish the book together, so we read chapters 16 & 17 today. It seems that every page as we near the climax of the story is more exciting. Lina and Doon are on the verge of finding a way out of the city and they are as excited about it as we are.
Arianna and I finished reading "City of Ember" just before our session ended. We were both delighted by the author's careful description of the New World. Her choice of words took us both right along with the characters as they saw their first animal, first night sky and most especially, their first sunrise. The power of words! The conclusion of this tale requires strong inference and synthesis, both high order thinking skills that Arianna uses proficiently.
Arianna began with subtraction and addition mental math minutes and quick quizzes on different ways to say the time and reading data from bar graphs. Then, we focused on how to use a protractor to measure angles in degrees and reviewed the different ways to name angles. Arianna made logical guesses about the degrees of given angles before using an interactive protractor to check her accuracy.
Cast Your Vote - Politics and Public Policy-
This activity provided Arianna with an introduction to the electoral processes of the American political system. She discovered what it takes to become an informed voter — from knowing where they stand on important issues to uncovering what they need to know about candidates. She went through simulations, presentations, vocabulary-building activities and lastly a mock election.
https://www.icivics.org/node/2190/resource
This morning we used our knowledge of how fossils are formed to answer the question, "Why are fossils of shark teeth so common, but the skeletons of sharks are not?" We learned about the great megalodon shark that went extinct millions of year ago, and then watched a short video on modern day sharks that inhabit the bottom of the oceans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TDuPJ1lZAs. Arianna also took a short fun quiz to identify which species of shark she was most like: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/personality-quizzes/which-shark/.
Arianna began with subtraction facts mental math minutes and quick quizzes on matching arrays to their equations and skip counting patterns. Then for review, we played a decimal related jeopardy game together. The categories included rounding decimals, comparing decimals, adding and subtracting decimals, decimal place value, and a mix-up.
This morning we continued to learn about the career of paleontologists using the American Museum of Natural History (https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/paleontology
). Arianna completed a matching activity to learn about identifying fossils to species.
1. IXL – Identify the 50 states...
2. Arianna completed many Social Studies review activities using https://mrnussbaum.com/games/social-studies-games. These interactive activities were all reviewing the material taught throughout the year.
3.She played an interactive Civics game titled - “Win the White House – Presidential Election Game” https://www.icivics.org/node/67038/resource.
Today, Arianna began with addition and multiplication mental math minutes before a quick quiz on ordering numbers. Then, we focused on a division review. Arianna answered questions on estimating to divide by 1-digit numbers, divided 2-digit by 1-digit numbers with remainders, and interpreted the concept on remainders. Finally, Arianna estimated the quotients of 3- and 4-digits divided by 1-digit.
