Welcome to Mrs. Knowlton's Room 

Tentative Agenda for the week of May 24.

Some reminders ...  The honors breakfast is Wednesday morning.  The field trip forms are due Friday.  It's $7 for the day.  Please remind your child to bring his/her Math Student Reference book back in to school.

Math: 

Tessellations and symmetry!

Monday: Same-tile tessellations

Tuesday:  Making tessellations

Wednesday: Finish tessellations

Thursday:  Vertical, Horizontal and Rotational Symmetry

Friday:  Symmetry Hunt

Language Arts:

We've finish the book A Year down Yonder and are writing a character sketch about a main character.  At the end of the week, we'll be looking at cause and effect writing.

Monday:  Finish book and character sketch organizer

Tuesday:  Write the character sketch

Wednesday: Informational piece on Hurricane Katrina

Thursday:  Cause and effect from the hurricane

Friday: Writing a cause and effect essay

Here are some links to Math/Language Arts web sites we will use in class.

I'll try to add more as we use them :)

Algebraic Equations                                                 Math Moves U

Factor Captor                                                           Tony Fraction's Pizza Shop

Mathplayground 

An Interactive Math Dictionary

Ghostblasters

Soccer Shootout (Fractions)

Practice with decimals

Division Monster

Solving Equations

Fish Tank - probability

The downloadable drawing program Tux Paint