Monday, February 1, 2010.

HANDWRITING
We brainstormed words with a "ph" that says "f" such as elephant and alphabet. Choose three "ph" words to write three times and write the date once. Be careful how you join the "brua" in February.

FRENCH
We practiced the Winter Olympic Sports names in French.

MATH
We discussed how estimating answers should look for a question such as:
67
- 51

For example an EXCELLENT estimate would look like this:

67 --> 70
51 --> - 50
20 The estimate is 20.

a GOOD estimate would look like this:

7 - 5 = 2 --> 20

a SATISFACTORY estimate would look like this:

20

a HAVING DIFFICULTY estimate would look like this:

16

We continued to work on page 108.

SCIENCE
We watched a BrainPop on the moon and learned the following:
* The moon revolves around the Earth every 27.3 days.
* A lunar month is 29.5 days because the moon revolves around the Earth but the Earth is also turning.
* A lunar month is the time from one fullmoon until the next.
* The moon is 380,000 kilometers away from the Earth.
* The moon is made of igneous rock with a core of iron and sulfur.
* The moon's rocky crust is made up of plains and sea beds or marias.
* The moon's surface doesn't change because there is no atmosphere so there is no wind or other weather to move things around.
* The gravity on the moon is 1/6 th of Earth's gravity.
* The first man set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969.

We also predicted whether the Groundhog would see his shadow and predict that there will be six more weeks of winter or whether he wouldn't see his shadow and predict that spring will come more quickly.

SHOW AND SHARE
We heard about a pottery shard, a special mini hockey stick, and a Dinosaur book.