Thursday, January 3, 2008

January 4th

Take out your planner. Remember how you wrote down what you had to do and planned when you would do it yesterday? That's what you will do every school day from now on. Here we go:

- Spelling

- Multiplication Quiz. When you click on that link, go to 3 Times Tables (PDF), print it and that's the quiz we'll do. Easy, I know, but good practice.

- Check out Key to Geometry, book 1. Go over it with me and we'll find out what you know and see how much of that book we really need to do.

- Construct a paper dodecahedron. You now have the five platonic solids! There's lots you can do now:

Vist Studying Polyhedra. Answer the questions using either the animation or your own models.

Sit down with me so we can go over the Childcraft Mathemagic sections on the solids.

We skipped the term polyhedron in all this. Can you find out what that means? How it's related to the solids?

Do up a sheet of facts on the solids. You can write it yourself or copy and paste or even find a good fact sheet on the internet and print it out. But make sure you have the following info - vertices, edges, faces (what are other words we've been using for those terms?). You could even add a breakdown of the names of each solid. What does tri mean? How about poly? Does hedron have a meaning? What language do those terms come from?

Get your protractor out! Measure the angles on the solids. Do you notice something about the angles on each solid?

You've got 5 freakin' solids now! What are you going to do with them? Mount them on paper? Make a mobile? Glue them together to make some sort of sculpture? Toss them out? Make individual ornaments? Something I didn't think of?

- Read to your brother.

- read some more of Julie of the Wolves

That's it!

Except for some jokes. :)

Q: What's another name for a clever duck?
A: A wise quacker!

Q: Which bird is always out of breath?
A: A puffin!

Q: What's got six legs and can fly long distances?
A: Three swallows!

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