Today we scaled picture up and down, multiplying by both four and a fourth.
We continued reading Cannily, Cannily. Why are the other boys going to help Trevor play?
We did some more research for the Taichung Power Project. Every company found a major problem with their type of power. What was the problem with your group’s energy source?
Remember tomorrow is Halloween.
You can wear normal clothes to school. We will get changed at 1:00pm. Please remember your costume. You might also like to bring spare clothes if you will participate in the water balloon game.
The buses will return at the normal time.
Also remember your reading logs and real-life fraction homework.
Use Khan Academy for a total of one hour over the week. It seems that the email summary I receive from Khan is inaccurate so parents, please check that your kids do the necessary time as I am unable to do it from my end.
Find some real life fractions outside of school. Write down what you find and report it to the class on Friday.
On Friday we will go to the Taichung National Science Museum. We planned to go to Hsinchu but we changed to a closer location in case the typhoon causes travel problems. The last minute change has led to some rather hurried organization. We are keen to go to Hsinchu later in the year.
Price: There was an error on the form. The NT$300 covers BOTH entry and lunch. In fact, it should turn out to be cheaper than that and I will give you change.
Lunch: Please have your parents tick the box and return the form tomorrow. If you are getting McDonalds you can only have the option listed as we need to pre-order and sorting out different orders would be a nightmare! You can bring extra money and buy a little more if you are still hungry and we have time. If you are bringing your own lunch I will reimburse the difference.
Money: You don’t need money if you are buying McDonalds because the NT$300 will cover it. You can bring some extra along for the gift shop if you want but YOU are responsible for it and I cannot guarantee we will have time to go there.
Parents, please Line me if you have further questions. My Line ID is tom6579.
Spirit Week:
Next week is a fun week as we count down to Halloween.
Monday: Twin Day. Organize to dress the same as someone else. You might even do your hair the same way.
Tuesday: Career Day. Dress as what you would like to be when you grow up. For example, if you want to be a doctor, you might dress in a white lab coat and stethoscope. If you’re not sure you can just dress up as any job, it doesn’t really matter.
Wednesday: Corcoran Day. Dress up as Mr. Corcoran. He usually wears a suit and a colorful, interesting tie.
Thursday: Crazy Hair Day. You can figure it out.
Friday: Halloween.
It’s great to see so many ES kids getting involved this year.
Last time in math we changed one of the denominators in order to add or subtract, like this:
2/3 + 2/6 = 4/6 + 2 /6 = 6/6 = 1
Today we changed both the denominators in order to make them like:
2/3 + 2/5 = 10/15 + 6/15 = 16/15 = 1 1/15
In the case above, the fifteenths are the lowest common denominator.
We went to the library for reading and borrowing.
In the afternoon we talked about Taichung’s main source of power.
Taichung Power Plant. Image borrowed from Wikipedia.
We found out that it runs on coal and that it is the world’s number one biggest producer of carbon dioxide. By the way, I also found out that most of the coal comes from Australia. Here are some links about the power plant. You might need someone to help you read them.
In math we are reviewing Venn diagrams. Here is one I thought you might like:
In literacy we chose a new book, 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass.
Some of the boys were concerned that it was more of a girls’ book. When we discussed this, some students thought that girls preferred some books and boys, others.
We tested the idea by ranking a previous book, Da Vinci, out of five. We separated the results for boys and girls and found the mean, median and mode of each.
The median and mode for both girls and boys was 5. The mean for girls was 4.2 and for boys it was 5. At least in our class, the book was more popular with boys but only by a little.
This shows how we can use math to make meaning of real-life situations that can be described in numbers.
In the afternoon we learned how to break our writing into paragraphs. Have a look at this blog post. It is typical of writing on the internet. Does it have paragraphs? How are they different to those in a book?
This morning we reviewed graphs and data then did a test.
We went to the library for reading and borrowing. Ms. Nono helped us out. Thank you!
In the afternoon we continued with our narrative writing.
We read a story by Paul Jennings called The Busker. It’s about a boy who wants money. He meets an old man who tells him a sad tale that changes his mind.
In math we have been making cumulative frequency tablesand plotting graphs.
Can you find the range, mean, median and modeof these sets of data?
3, 5, 6, 6, 12
23, 84, 39, 22, 30, 31, 98
In literacy we finished reading about Galileo. He invented the telescope, the microscope, the thermometer and helped develop the ideas to build the first clock.
Galileo believed what the evidence told him, not what the ancients had always said. He believed that our understanding of the world could grow.
Some great thinkers said:
“We are dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants. They are greater than us, but we see further.”
It means that new thinkers can learn from, and build upon, the ideas of previous thinkers.
Galileowas like a dwarf standing of the shoulders of Socratesand Aristotle. Isaac Newton was like a dwarf standing on the shoulders of Galileo (by developing his ideas about natural laws). Einsteinwas like a dwarf standing on the shoulders of Newton.
You are also a thinker. Whose shoulders are you standing on? Who will stand on your shoulders when you are gone?
This morning we plotted a graph and found the mean, medianand mode.
We started reading about Galileo and went to the library.
In the afternoon we revised our stories. We improved them by putting a problem in the beginning and more problems in the middle. The resolution of the main problem is in the ending.
Homework:
Read for 30 minutes every night.
Use Khan Academy math for one hour over the week.
There will be no spelling words or homework challenge due to the shortened week.
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