Spelling List for "One Grain of Rice"

Spelling:
addition, sadness, lovable, endless, handful, plentiful, breathless, happiness, solution, careful, function, stillness, information, celebration, capable, available, famine, implored, trickle, plentifully
Bonus:
pardox, antithesis, stereotype, terrarium

The Best Ice Fishing Place in the World Video & Fraction Practice & Haiku

Identifying Fractions

Equivalent Fractions

Compare Fractions

Simplest Form/Lowest Terms

Mixed to Improper Fractions

Student Haikus & Fish Houses

Here are two more student Haikus. Below you will find a slideshow of some interesting fish houses.

Short Week- Ice Fishing

A couple of notes for the short week:
No spelling!
Conferences are Tues., Feb 24th 4-8PM, Thurs., Feb. 26th 4-8PM, and Friday Feb 27th during school hours.


This week we reading about ice fishing. Check out picture to link to the article. We took a short survey about being out on the ice. Here are the results:
Have been on the ice (at least once) 100%
Have been ice fishing 75%
Have skated on a lake or pond 92%
Have been in a car on the ice 52%
Have been on a snowmobile on the ice 52%
Have been on an ATV on the ice 24%
Have played hockey on the ice 56%
Have skiied on the ice 28%. Here are a couple YouTube videos we watched about ice fishing:

No Concert Tonight- Haikus & "Red Writing Hood"

Archery is postponed until tomorrow.

Word Choice:
Students were asked to come up with one interesting word that came into their head with the following prompts. Here are the results:
Prompt/Student Responses-
1. My mom:
fun, loving, snuggly, awesome, protecting, responsible

2. Tonight's postponed concert:
shocking, disaster, lucky

3. Math:
Awesome, interesting, confusing, grrr

4. Pinguard:
painful, dangerous, injustice

5. Iowa:
Molly, nose, CRAZY, flat, wheaty, corn

6.Domino's Day:
delicious, greasy, tasty

7. Harry Potter:
magical, mystical, Guy

8. Mr. O's hair:
fluffy, scarce, stylish, sideburns, bald (ouch!)

More Fractions and Haikus

Homework:
21.3 Ordering Fractions-see web sites below.
Blue Sheet
Think About It Questions and Story Pyramid




Ordering Fractions Web Site

BBC Fraction Ordering Web Site

Advice for comparing fractions:
Check the denominator- if they are the same it is as easy as counting 123.
Check the numerator- if they are the same then the bigger denominator, the smaller pieces of the fraction are.
Is one piece missing? What score would you rather have? 1/2, 2/3, 9/10, 19/20? If only one is missing the bigger the denominator, the greater the fraction's value.
Less than half, half, more than half- categorize your fractions in these groups and go from there.

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Red Writing Vocab

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Haikus, Fractions, and Spelling Words

Fraction Identification- Circles

Fraction Identification- Lines

Identify Fractions- Groups

Renaming Fraction in lowest terms (reducing)

Equivalent Fractions- Higher



Spelling this week (Tues & Fri). Rule: adding suffixes to words that end with -y.
families, worried, ugliest, funnier, happily, easily, heavier, earlier, tiniest, supplied, luckily, relied, activities, countries, enemies, hurried,
Spelling vocab words:
triumphantly, desperately, injustice, circumstances.
Bonus Words:
contradict, oxymoron, memorandum, omniscent

Happy Valentine's Day

Today we kicked off our Chip Shoppe Fundraiser to raise money for books for our school. The book fair begins on Tuesday (there is no school on Monday). Below is a sample of animal haiku poems. This is from Adam.