Geometry All Around Us

Today our Jumpstart had us back on bridge sentences for analogies.  We are looking at types of relationships and considered opposites, degree, functions, type, and lack.  One more week and we may have a class of analogy masters!

Our Jacob's Latter reading for today was Geometry All Around Us.  Students use the text to help them list detailed examples from the story and their own experience.  They then classified their examples and drew generalizations about the role of geometry in everyday life.

We kept on with the geometry theme as we headed to math and looked at deconstructing irregular shapes.  We rearranged our area pieces back into regular shapes and students were able to use their measurement and formula knowledge to determine the area.

We all passed our chess test with flying colors and continued our castle construction.  Most of us got a jump on our first project choice option as well.