Fiftieth Day

Today we blended through /y/ spelled 'y_'. We discussed some properties of various simple machines including the lever, wheel, and ramp (inclined plane).

We discussed many aspects of safety and ways of staying safe as part of our health standards.

We worked with solid shapes in math. Our homework is a math page and writing page on the /ar/ sound.

Forty-Sixth Day

We stand at more than half of the class working on publishing their worker reports at this time. Today was spent reviewing many spellings previously introduced. In addition, we blended through /l/ spelled 'le', and 'el'. We began our unit on simple machines. We began today by cloming up with a class definition of machines: they help people do work, they make work faster and easier. We decided (for the time being) that tools were not machines. It was thought that tools were smaller than machines. We will see how our perceptions and definitions change over the course of the unit. Again, this unit is very specifically about simple machines.

We began the district quarterly math test today; we will try to complete it tomorrow. Math 7-3 is our homework tonight.