Wednesday, March 5

 Hi parents,

We had a great day today! In the morning,  the students made some tweaks to their dinosaur paragraphs. We learned some tricks for adding variety to sentence beginnings. Some students have started to write their good copies.

In math, we reviewed the three types of triangles. If you are in grade 4, this is going to be on your test tomorrow! For Grade 3's, it's still helpful to be able to identify equilateral triangles as 'regular polygons', while the other two types are not.

In the afternoon we did Daily LA, and then the students got to use our school's K-Nex Sets to create crank fans that use gear systems. The students got to experiment with different sizes of gears to see how these changes would affect the speed of the fan.

Remember that tomorrow is our Geometry Quiz! It will be basically the same as the last one, but with different polygons in each example. Students will need to know all the same stuff. Also - may be helpful to review 'rays', 'lines', and 'line segments', because we didn't get to those in class this week (we learned them a few weeks ago so its nothing new).

Have a nice night,

Zac