This morning students watched a youtube movie about Koko, the gorilla who knows sign language. Then we went over the fluency list and discussed words that the students didn't understand. Finally, we read the first half of the story about Koko. Students then wrote a short paragraph about the first half of the story.
In math we practiced finding area. The students did fine with rectangles, but they are still struggling with irregular figures. I will not be including irregular figures on this test. We need more work on those. However, the test will cover lines, line segments, points, rays, recognizing obtuse, acute and right angles and triangles, knowing a square, circle, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, parallelogram and trapezoid. They will need to be able to determine the approximate angles of a triangle and know that all three angles add up to 180 degrees. They will also need to figure perimeter and area.
In Social Studies we learned a bit about agriculture in Idaho. We watched a movie that explained railroads, irrigation and better tools were the three things that improved Idaho's agriculture. We also learned that the two best known products of Idaho are sheep (we didn't know that one) and potatoes.
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