Bottle Biography Project – Arianna worked on her report on Pocahontas.

Arianna continued to research the biology of the red fox for her animal behavior project. Today we learned about the behavior of the red fox and she added new content to the PowerPoint presentation.

Arianna's lesson practiced estimating fractional amounts. We looked over her benchmark fraction strips to review the commonly used fractions to help her estimate the fractional amount of shaded shapes or distances on number lines. Then, Arianna and I reviewed equivalent fractions before she completed a correlating lesson on Khan Academy. Finally, a spiral review on reading number words, long division, fractions, and multiplication and subtraction word problems was completed.

She added a few details to the painting. Using shells and rhinestones, she created a frame around the picture.

Arianna worked on subjects and predicates, using sentences from her Harry Potter book. She read the next chapter in Harry Potter where the main characters begin to synthesize new information and act on their plan. Arianna is making predictions and checking them as we continue on. We also read several myths, folktales and tales to determine their themes and lessons.

Arianna began her time with a spiral review on matching fractions to their models and division and fraction word problems. Today's lesson looked at how fractions describe equal parts and how fractions and division relate. Arianna completed problems, telling what fraction each person gets if items were shared equally and practiced writing the fraction as division. Then, online Arianna solved long division problems, 25 multiplication facts, and 25 division facts. We finished with a game of Farkle. This is a really fun dice game which uses strategy, luck, and 6 dice to build scores with different dice combinations while knowing when to stop rolling as to not lose points. Arianna used mental math, adding 50s, 100s, and 1,000s, to tally her score.

Bottle Biography Project – Arianna completed her research on Pocahontas and started on her 3-paragraph report, which she will be completing on the computer. She completed decorating a 2-liter bottle to look like Pocahontas.

Arianna read the poem, 'My Dinner Loves to Dance'. We analyzed the poem in terms of imagery and personificaiton. Arianna did well identifying the personification within the poem. We talked about why a poet might use personification. She enjoyed creating sentences about different kinds of fruit that included personification.

We looked for costumes that could be used for the talent show. We continued blocking the play. We rehearsed for the play.

Puppet play was planned. We also planned on working on an improvisation of her choice.